The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
Yesterday, December 5, CCC submitted a response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Request for Comments (RFC) on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence Draft…
Patterned baubles reminded us of printed circuit boards, and a puzzle to do with maps.
When you recover textual content from the disk or from the network, you may expect it to be a Unicode string in UTF-8. It is the most common format. Unfortunately, not all sequences of bytes are valid UTF-8 and accepting invalid…
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Dec. 5, 2023 – Nexusflow, a generative AI company targeting the cybersecurity industry, today announced the release of NexusRaven-V2, a 13-billion parameter open-source genAI model that delivers function
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BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 05, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced it is shipping the Micron 3500 NVMe SSD, which leverages its 232-layer NAND designed for, among other workloads, business applications and scientific…
The following was adapted from content originally posted on the CRA-WP website by Lauren Lashlee, Program Associate. CRA’s Widening Participation Committee (CRA-WP) has an opportunity to highlight early career researchers…
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get…
We recommend keeping water (and snow) away from devices, but did you know you can make computers out of water?!
Helsinki and Yorktown, Virginia December 4, 2023: Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms for life sciences, said it has run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware. The company…
Today, at its annual IBM Quantum Summit in New York, the company debuted the 133-qubit Quantum Heron, the first in what IBM said will be a series of utility-scale quantum processors whose architecture has been engineered over…
Here's a sprint (5:16) through the latest HPC -AI news, including: NVIDIA's big feature story in The New Yorker, the Open Benchmark Council's TOP100 lists, Intel and TSMC's high-end 3 nanometer fab, digital twins for hydropower…
The case of a People Analytics Workshop for undergraduate computer science students.
I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the…
This post is part of the CS4FN Christmas Computing Advent Calendar and we are publishing a small post every day, about computer science, until Christmas Day. This is the fourth post and the picture on today’s door was an iceContinue…
The following is a conversation between Clyde Kruskal and Bill Gasarch.
CLYDE: Bill, a student, Ian Roberts, asked me if there are any non-primitive recursive functions that people actually want to compute.
BILL: Off hand I would…Print and colour in (optional) a HexaHexaFlexagon then see if you can uncover all of Father Christmas' presents...
Day 2 of our Christmas computing advent calendar and we're already seeing double.
Scientists have found Strawberry Squid, “whose mismatched eyes help them simultaneously search for prey above and below them,” among the coral reefs in the Galápagos Islands.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk…(This is an excerpt from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced at HPE Discover Barcelona 2023 the next series of AI-native and hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage, AI tuning and inferencing…
One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking journey by typing keywords into a search box, or by browsing a category hierarchy?
Search vs.Search…Critical sections in analytic workflows.
A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong.
The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from its “manager” that the company is not…Hooray it's December! We have lots of fun Christmas- and computing-themed stuff we hope you will enjoy. First up: the links between knitting and coding.