Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2023
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
The CCC is pleased to partner with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to sponsor a Blue Sky Paper track at their upcoming conference SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24). The Blue Sky Track…
From Schneier on Security
Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago:
So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors than a Counterstrike LAN party. They can be used to monitor…From Computational Complexity
What Makes a Constructive Proof?
In this weblog, we've used constructive in different ways. Often we talk about constructive as something we can create in polynomial time, like an expander. But how about constructive as in logic, when you don't get to assume…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Linux Open Source Guru Greg Kurtzer on Red Hat and the RHEL Source Code Controversy
The Linux open source controversy was kicked off in late June when Red Hat announced changes in access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code. We discussed this in an earlier episode of this podcast, Sorting through the…
From insideHPC
Samsung Announces 12nm-Class 32Gb DDR5 DRAM
SEOUL, Korea – Sept. 1, 2023 – Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the industry's first 32-gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM using 12 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. This comes after Samsung began mass production of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder to Submit Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
This is a reminder to please submit your Challenge Problems which require collaboration between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) disciplines by September 15th. You can submit your ideas at this form…
From Schneier on Security
When Apps Go Rogue
Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad.
With more official macOS features added in 2021 that enabled the “Night Shift” dark mode,…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Congrats to Three Colleagues
And a fourth Composite crop of src1, src2, src3 Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Santosh Vempala and Virginia Williams have a common thread. No, it’s not that they all have a name that starts with a V. Yes, they all are at an institute…
From Schneier on Security
Identity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
Interesting story:
Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling’s death as an infant, and used the stolen identity to obtain Social Security benefits under both…From insideHPC
Exascale and Industry Innovation at GE Aerospace
Aug. 31, 2023 -- GE Aerospace is partnering with French aerospace company Safran ... on a next-generation technology demonstration program ... that aims to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 20 percent compared to
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From insideHPC
ETH Prof. Torsten Hoefler Joins CSCS as Chief Architect for Machine Learning
August 31, 2023 -- As of Sept. 1, ETH Professor Torsten Hoefler will be chief architect for machine learning of the architecture and technology workgroup at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Hoefler has headed…
From insideHPC
Arm Introduces Neoverse Compute Subsystems
At Hot Chips today, Arm introduced the Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) designed to enable Arm users to build specialized silicon at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market compared to discrete IP. Available…
From BLOG@CACM
The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the Perspective of the MERge Model
Where should management be located in the data science Venn diagram?
From insideHPC
Sept. 8 Registration Deadline for October ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop
Aug. 31, 2023 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold Hands-on HPC Workshop on October 10-12, 2023 at the TCS Conference Center at Argonne National Laboratory. Deadline for registration is Friday, Sept. 8. Registration…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $29M for Research on ML, AI and Data Resources for Fusion Energy Sciences
Aug. 31, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $29 million in funding for seven team awards for research in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data resources for fusion energy sciences. The funding…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone
A happy Monday morn to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing…
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Stopping Polish Trains
Turns out that it’s easy to broadcast radio commands that force Polish trains to stop:
…the saboteurs appear to have sent simple so-called “radio-stop” commands via radio frequency to the trains they targeted. Because the trains…From Computational Complexity
Theorems and Lemmas and Proofs, Oh My!
I was recently asked by a non-mathematician about the difference between the terms Theorem, Lemma, etc. My first reaction was I probably have a blog post on that. Actually, I looked and I don't seem to. Since I have, according…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Pagoda Updates Programming with Scalable Data Structures and Aggressively Asynchronous Communication
The Pagoda Project researches and develops software that programmers use to implement high-performance applications using the Partitioned Global Address Space model. The project is primarily funded by the Exascale Computing Project…
From insideHPC
atNorth Acquires Gompute
Stockholm, Aug. 29th, 2023 -- atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has today announced the company’s acquisition of Gompute, a leading provider of high performance…
From insideHPC
Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Appoints Former Arm CTO/EVP
Oxford, 30 August 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics has appointed former Arm CTO and EVP Dipesh Patel as a non-executive director. Patel was with Arm before becoming an operating partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital. The…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $24M for Quantum Networks Research
Aug. 30, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $24 million for quantum networks research projects. The projects were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE National Laboratory Announcement, Scientific Enablers…
From insideHPC
Sandia: Testing New HPC Technology in Orbit
A Sandia National Laboratories team is working to create an iterative process that uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a proving ground to rapidly test and mature technology in space. In collaboration with the National…
From insideHPC
Atom Computing Adds Former Sec. of the Navy to Board
August 30, 2023 — Berkeley, CA – Atom Computing has appointed Ken Braithwaite, former Secretary of the Navy, to its board of directors. He served as Secretary of the Navy from May 29, 2020, to January 20, 2021, in the Donald
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From insideHPC
Gartner Reports Composable Infrastructure Increases Market Penetration up to 10x
August 24, 2023 – Technology industry analyst firm Gartner has issued four new “Hype Cycle” reports for 2023 in which composable infrastructure is given a “high” benefit” rating, according to an announcement from composable infrastructure…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Food Labeling Laws
This article talks about new Mexican laws about food labeling, and the lengths to which food manufacturers are going to ensure that they are not effective. There are the typical high-pressure lobbying tactics and lawsuits. But…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 3rd Innovation Forum on Intelligent Computing: How intelligent computing will enable intelligent systems
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is teaming up with the Zhejiang Lab for a hybrid forum on The 3rd Innovation forum on Intelligent Computing: How intelligent computing will enable intelligent systems…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Distributed Prize
And a ‘new’ computing ‘blog’ with over 1,300 sizable ‘posts’ unearthed Edsger Dijkstra contributed to many aspects of computing. His name is attached to Dijkstra’s Algorithm, of course, but his 1972 Turing Award citation does…
From Computational Complexity
Transcripts for the 21st Century
When I start a new academic job, I need to prove that I actually have a PhD. I have to log in my MIT alumni page, pay my $10 and they email my graduate transcript to whomever, all to verify that one bit of information. Why don't…
From BLOG@CACM
Everything. Everywhere. All at Once: AI Policy When Congress Returns
Here is a quick take on what to look for in Washington and on the broader AI Policy landscape when Congress returns in September.