Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2024
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Even the dolphins use pocket switched networks!
Mary Ann Horton was transitioning to female at the time that she made one of her biggest contributions to our lives with a simple computer science idea with a big impact: a program that allowed binary email attachments.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Extends Warm Welcome to New Council Members
CCC is thrilled to announce that the following six computing researchers have joined the CCC Council: Weisong Shi, University of Delaware Rayid Ghani, Carnegie Mellon University Sebastian Elbaum, University of Virginia Rachel…
From insideHPC
MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation
LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate…
From insideHPC
Rescale Receives Success Memorandum from Defense Innovation Unit for HPC Modernization Program
San Francisco – June 27, 2024 – Cloud HPC company Rescale announced the successful completion of an HPC Modernization Program prototype evaluation for the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). As a result…
From insideHPC
DOE ASCR July 22 Call for Papers: Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a Workshop on Energy-Efficient Computing for Science (EECS). Key dates: July 22, 2024: Deadline for…
From insideHPC
TII Quantum Technology Symposium January 27-29 in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE – 2nd July 2024: The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a scientific research center and the applied research pillar of the Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), will host researchers and…
From Schneier on Security
Public Surveillance of Bars
This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy
If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic.
This isn’t a book about…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Daniel Lopresti Transitions to Chair Emeritus and Several Council Members Rotate Off
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wishes Dan Lopresti well as his 2-year term as Council Chair comes to a close. June 30th marks the end of Lopresti’s term and CCC is grateful for his leadership. He remains on the Council…
From insideHPC
Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation
TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a Canadian company with a simulation as a service (SaaS) business
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From insideHPC
DDN Wins 2024 AI Breakthrough Award
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – July 1, 2024 – AI and multi-cloud data management solutions company DDN announced it has won its fourth “AI Hardware Innovation Award,” resulting in five consecutive annual award recognitions in the AI Breakthrough…
From Schneier on Security
Model Extraction from Neural Networks
A new paper, “Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models,” by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract the weights inside a neural network using specific queries and …