Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2023
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New AKS
An award for attacking an NP-hard problem Miklós Ajtai, Ravi Kumar, and D. Sivakumar were among winners of the ACM STOC 2023 “Test of Time” Awards. The award recognized their joint paper from STOC 2001 titled, “A sieve algorithm…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bitten blue
For some reason biting flies home in on some people while leaving others (even those walking next to them) alone. What is going on, what does it have to do with the colour blue, and how is computer science helping?
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: See-Through Squid
Doryteuthis opalescens is known as the market squid, and was critical in the recent squid RNA research.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my…From Geeking with Greg
Attacking the economics of scams and misinformation
We see so many scams and so much misinformation on the internet because it is profitable.
It's cheap to create bogus accounts. It's cheap to use hordes of accounts to shill your scams and feign popularity. Posting false customer…From insideHPC
22,000 GPUs: Inflection AI Building 22 exaFLOPS Generative AI Cluster
Palo Alto-based startup Inflection AI yesterday said it is building the world’s largest AI cluster comprised of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs that will deliver 22 exaFLOPS performance. The company also said it has raised…
From insideHPC
Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2
BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and deliver resources…
From insideHPC
The Energy Advantage of Quantum Computers
By Yuval Boger, Chief Marketing Officer, QuEra Computing Inc. While quantum computers will ultimately be able to solve problems that no classical supercomputer can, what happens when quantum systems merely match classical’s performance…
From The Noisy Channel
Facets: Constraints or Preferences?
When my colleagues and I at Endeca started working on faceted search in 1999, our model of the search journey was that most searchers start with broadly expressed information needs, and then progressively narrow down those needs…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jizai Body Robotics Based on Asian Thought
Completely new to me, despite our long look at Asian tech.
EAST ASIA AND OCEANIA REGION SPECIAL SECTION: HOT TOPICS
JIZAI Body: Human-Machine Integration Based on Asian Thought
By Masahiko Inami
Communications of the ACM, July 2023…From The Eponymous Pickle
More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight It
More unexpected solutions via AI, so why not restrict its use as much as possible? Fearmongering.
More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight It
By Wired, June 27, 2023
AI can bring world-leading expertise into the community…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Make a Quantum Computing Leap with a Magnetic Twist
ACM TECHNEWS
Researchers Make a Quantum Computing Leap with a Magnetic Twist
By University of Washington News, June 29, 2023
An artistic depiction showing electron fractionalization (in which strongly interacting charges can fractionalize…From The Eponymous Pickle
Doctors Train in Virtual Reality
Doctors Train in Virtual Reality
By Jake Widman
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 22, 2023
Surgeons collaborate during virtual surgery.
In addition to relevant tools and a patient, the simulations can provide highlights and tool tips…From Schneier on Security
The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General.
The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary general’s personal conversations with aides regarding diplomatic encounters. They indicate…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Releases Guidelines for Research Security Analytics Practices
Originally posted on Computing Research Policy Blog by Brian Mosley Last week the National Science Foundation released their long-anticipated guidelines covering their internal guidance for research security data-related practices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge.
Oh, Oh, are we shopping now? Was this allowed? Will Google play nice?
Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge in TechCrunch
Frederic Lardinois@fredericl / 11:00 AM EDT•June 29, 2023
People walk past a…From insideHPC
ALCF to Hold 3 AI Testbed Workshops in July
June 29, 2023 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced three training workshops designed to introduce users to the ALCF AI Testbed’s novel AI accelerators: the SambaNova DataScale SN30, the Cerebras CS-2 system…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Dynamic bit shuffle using AVX-512
Suppose that you want to reorder, arbitrarily, the bits in a 64-bit word. This question was raised on Twitter by @experquisite. Formally, you might want to provide, for each of the 64 bit position, an original bit position you…
From insideHPC
Lightelligence Announces Optical Network-on-Chip Processor
Boston –– June 28, 2023 –– Photonic computing company Lightelligence has introduced Hummingbird, an optical network-on-chip (oNOC) processor designed for domain-specific AI workloads. Lightelligence said Hummingbird utilizes
…
From insideHPC
Intel and Dell Partner with UK Atomic Energy Authority on Fusion Power Plant Digital Twin
Intel and Dell Technologies have announced they are working with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab plan to build a digital twin of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production…
From insideHPC
Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications
ATLANTA & TEL AVIV, June 29, 2023 – Mona, maker of an intelligent monitoring platform, has unveiled a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Digital Transformation
Used to follow Unilever closely
05/30/2023
Unilever Exits: Conny Braams, Graeme Pitkethly Departing
Lisa Johnston Editor-in-Chief in Consumergoods.com
Unilever digital twins (?)
Unilever announced leadership changes, with Conny…From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe Opens AI 'Crash Test' Centers
Europe Opens AI 'Crash Test' Centers
Bloomberg
Sanne Wass, June 27, 2023
The European Union has launched four artificial intelligence (AI) facilities to test and validate the safety of innovations prior to their market rollout.…From The Eponymous Pickle
Heat-Resistant Drone Could Scope, Map Burning Buildings, Wildfires
Heat-Resistant Drone Could Scope, Map Burning Buildings, Wildfires
Imperial College London (U.K.)
Hayley Dunning, June 26, 2023
Scientists at the U.K.'s Imperial College London (ICL) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials…From insideHPC
Revolutionizing the Electronic Design Industry with Ansys and AWS
The electronics industry operates in a highly competitive landscape, where companies are constantly striving to launch products faster while meeting evolving consumer demands. However, this quest for speed and innovation comes…
From insideHPC
Celestial AI, Maker of Photonic Fabric Optical Interconnect Technology, Raises $100M in Series B Funding
SANTA CLARA, CA – June 28, 2023 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced it has raised $100 million in Series B funding led by IAG Capital Partners, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and Temasek’s Xora Innovation…
From insideHPC
SourceCode Acquires Boston Limited, Adds Ungaro and Andreolli to Board
NORWOOD, Mass., June 26, 2023 — SourceCode, an IT systems company for AI infrastructure, announced it has agreed to acquire UK-EU-based Boston Limited, a provider of high-performance server and storage solutions. SourceCode is…
From insideHPC
Snowflake and NVIDIA Team on Generative AI in the Cloud
LAS VEGAS – June 26, 2023 – Data cloud company Snowflake and NVIDIA have announced at Snowflake Summit 2023 that they are partnering to provide businesses an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using…
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to Deploy IBM Quantum System
TROY, N.Y. and ARMONK, N.Y., June 28, 2023 — IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced RPI will become the first university to house an IBM Quantum System One. The computer, to be operational by January 2024, will serve…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Human Trials Begin for AI-Designed Drug
First Human Trials Begin for AI-Designed Drug
Story by The Daily Upside • Monday
MARKETS TODAY
or more crisp and insightful business and economic news, subscribe to The Daily Upside newsletter. It's completely free and we guarantee…From The Eponymous Pickle
Watch: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain
Microsoft is taking it broadly
Watch: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain
June 28, 2023 Russell W. Goodman, SupplyChainBrain
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the supply chain, and Microsoft's…