Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2024
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing
From insideHPC
NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan
NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately 3,000 km one-way network, according to the companies.
The post…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop
In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Menopause as a part of the White House’s Women’s Health Initiative…
From The Noisy Channel
Hallucinating a Post-Search World
When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand. While 3D printing is a valuable and promising technology, the reality…
From Yoshua Bengio
Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail
As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use…
L’article Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail…From insideHPC
NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants
Aug. 29, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE)…
From insideHPC
Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 – Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernize how the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) performs…
From Computational Complexity
My Quantum Summer
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| Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago |
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further autonomous research at the University of Delaware. Here…
From insideHPC
CIQ Releases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI
RENO, Nev. — August 28, 2024 — Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive computing (PIC). CIQ said it is shipping new capabilities in Fuzzball…
From insideHPC
AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing
SEATTLE–Aug. 28, 2024– Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing Service, a new managed service that helps customers set up…
From insideHPC
Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark for Generative AI
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and reproducible…
From insideHPC
TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Horizon is part
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).
From insideHPC
Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference
AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3.1 8B and 450 tokens per second for Llama3.1 70B, according
…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Weisong Shi Educates Researchers on Vehicle Computing in New Book
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce the publishing of Weisong Shi’s book on Vehicle Computing. We spoke with him to discuss the process and key takeaways for researchers and practitioners. What was…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to the New ACM-W Co-Chairs!
We are delighted to welcome Bushra Anjum and Rukiye Altin, two exceptional women, as our Co-Chair(s) of ACM-W. Both women, no strangers to ACM-W, bring a wealth of experience to the team, and their collaborative effort will support…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Highlights from the 2024 ACM-W Global Executive Committee Meeting in Madrid
The ACM-W Global Executive Committee held this year’s annual meeting from June 26-28, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The committee members representing our diverse regions discussed current progress and ways to increase the visibility…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
“I Can Figure This Out”: Bushra Anjum in Rendering History
The newly released book Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W by Gloria Townsend is a powerful tribute to the pioneering women who have shaped the landscape of computing through their involvement with ACM-W, the Association for…
From Schneier on Security
The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.
From Computational Complexity
Whats worse for a company: being hacked or having technical difficulties? I would have thought being hacked but...
At the Trump-Musk interview:
1) There were technical difficulties which caused it to start late and have some other problems.
2) Musk and (I think) Trump claimed that this was a DDOS attack because people were trying to prevent…From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems
A good August morning to you! Shahin and Doug offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL power needs enters NM Senate race, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems deal
The post HPC News Bytes…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison
Most programming languages support floating-point numbers. You typically have the ability to turn a string into a floating-point number. E.g., “3.1416” could be parsed as a number close to pi. However strings typically cannot…
From insideHPC
Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift
RALEIGH, N.C. – August 26, 2024 — Open source software company Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The company said this is a step…
From insideHPC
ALCF In-Person HPC Workshop, Oct. 29-31
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an in-person hands-on HPC workshop from Tuesday, Oct. 29 to Thursday, Oct. 31, at the TCS Conference Center at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL. The deadline to register…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025
Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025). UA Day, held annually, is an opportunity to rally local, national…
From Schneier on Security
US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
This is a big deal. A US Appeals Court ruled that geofence warrants—these are general warrants demanding information about all people within a geographical boundary—are unconstitutional.
The decision seems obvious to me, but…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures
Happy Summer bank holiday from CS4FN!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Inaugurates the Luiz André Barroso Award
It has been almost a year since computer scientist Luiz André Barroso passed away. On September 16, 2023, he left a huge legacy behind. Barroso was a distinguished individual known for his transformative work at Google and his…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Healing Materials from Squid Teeth
Making self-healing materials based on the teeth in squid suckers.