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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The first computer wizard
Christopher Strachey did a series of firsts in computer programming, and that was just when he was playing.
From insideHPC
Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Advances in AI
Excerpt from ChatGPT, General Statement, China Status and Advances
China has made significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. The Chinese government has prioritized AI development…From insideHPC
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
The Washington Post
Daniel Gilbert, May 24, 2023
An international team of scientists and neurosurgeons implanted electronics into the brain and spinal cord of a…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peak credentialism
How much is a degree from a prestigious university worth? The answer is a bit difficult to answer because there are many cofounding factors: people from the connected class (folks that ‘know people’) tend to attend the mostContinue…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: A DNN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI
At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
Clear, but essential.
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How, By Wired, May 31, 2023
Clamping limits on such a nascent technology, even one whose baby steps are shaking the earth, courts the danger of hobbling great…From Schneier on Security
On the Catastrophic Risk of AI
Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics …From The Eponymous Pickle
Eight AI Risk Types:
Excerpted from ChatGPT, 6/1/2023, Useful overview
The “eight AI risk types” framework refers to a categorization proposed by researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. This framework aims to…