Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2025
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Returning several values from a function in C++ (C++23 edition)
Many programming languages such as the Go programming language are designed to make it easy to return several values at once from a function. In Go, it is often used to return an optional error code. The C++ programming language…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Pet Squid Simulation
From Hackaday.com, this is a neural network simulation of a pet squid.
Autonomous Behavior:
From insideHPC
NeuReality Announces Inference Appliance Is Preloaded with AI Models
Caesarea, Israel – May 14, 2025 – NeuRealityannounced that its NR1 Inference Appliance now comes preloaded with enterprise AI models, including Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Granite1, plus support for private generative AI clouds and…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Announces WHPC Travel Fellows for ISC 2025
Women in HPC has named Sarah Johnston and Khyati Sethia as winners of the 2025 WHPC Travel Fellowships. They will present their research at next month’s ISC high performance computing conference in Hamburg next month. “We are…
From Schneier on Security
Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters
This is a weird story:
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some…From insideHPC
ALCF Developer Session: Accelerating AI Training and Inference for Science on Aurora Exascale Supercomputer
May 15, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an overview of key AI frameworks, toolkits, and strategies to achieve high-performance training and inference on the Aurora exascale supercomputer for scientific…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Input: Shaping the Future of AI Research in the United States
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), has issued a request for information (RFI) seeking…
From Schneier on Security
AI-Generated Law
On April 14, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the United Arab Emirates would begin using artificial intelligence to help write its laws. A new Regulatory Intelligence Office would use the technology…
From Computational Complexity
A Bittersweet Anniversary
The National Science Foundation was founded on May 10, 1950, 75 years ago last Saturday. No doubt the NSF has seen better days, but first let's take a look back.
At the end of World War II, Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Rise of the Chief AI Officer: A Conversation with CCC Council Member Manish Parashar
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to influence nearly every sector of society, institutions across academia, government, and industry are recognizing the need for dedicated leadership to guide the responsible development…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces DLC-2 Direct Liquid Cooling Updates
SAN JOSE, May 14, 2025 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced updates for to its Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) solution that incorporate new technologies for cooling various server components, accommodate warmer liquid inflow temperatures…
From insideHPC
Saudi Data Center Company DataVolt in $20B Deal with Supermicro
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – 13 May 2025 – DataVolt, a Saudi Arabian data center company, today announced the signing of a multi-year partnership agreement with Super Micro Computer Inc. for ultra-dense GPU platforms and rack systems…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking (remotely) at the Sektor 3.0 Festival in Warsaw, Poland, May 21-22, 2025.
The list is maintained on this page.
From insideHPC
ParTec AG and ORCA Computing in Quantum-Accelerated AI Factories Partnership
MUNICH and LONDON — ParTec AG, a European developer of AI supercomputers, quantum computing and high-performance computing, and quantum company ORCA Computing today announced their partnership to provide quantum-accelerated HPC…
From insideHPC
Quantinuum and Al Rabban Capital Launch Joint Venture for Quantum in Qatar and Region
Doha, Qatar, May 14th, 2025 — Quantinuum is establishing a Qatari-incorporated joint venture with Al Rabban Capital, a division of Qatar-based Al Rabban Holding Company. The venture is intended to accelerate quantum computing…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces Outstanding U.S. Doctoral Students Office of Science Graduate Research Program
May 14 2025 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has selected 79 PhD students from 56 universities and 29 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. A list of the 79 awardees for…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA in Partnership to Build AI Factories in Saudi Arabia
NVIDIA announced a partnership with HUMAIN, the AI subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, to build AI factories in the kingdom. HUMAIN said the partnership will develop a projected capacity of up to 500 megawatts…
From insideHPC
Anaconda Claims 1st Unified AI Platform for Open Source
AUSTIN, Texas– Anaconda Inc. today announced the release of the Anaconda AI Platform, which the company said is the only unified AI platform for open source that centralizes everything needed to source, secure, build, and deploy…
From insideHPC
Adaptive Power Systems for the 100kw Rack AI Data Center
Traditional rack power distribution was historically treated as a commodity — a passive conduit delivering electrons from wall to machine. That thinking is obsolete. Today’s high-performance computing environments demand visibility…
From Schneier on Security
Court Rules Against NSO Group
The case is over:
A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users…From Schneier on Security
Florida Backdoor Bill Fails
A Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors failed to pass.
From Computational Complexity
Random Thought on the New Pope (the actual New Pope, not the TV series). He was a math major!
The New Pope is Pope Leo XIV (pre-Pope name is Robert Prevost).
1) Pope names are one of the few places we still use Roman Numerals. I saw an article that was probably satirical that Americans prefer Roman Numerals (the numbers…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Signing Glasses
In a recent episode of Dr Who, The Well, Deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis plays a Deaf character Aliss. Aliss is a survivor of some, at first unknown, disaster that has befallen a mining colony 500,000 years in the future. TheContinue…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Producing useful commands on the go using C++ and AI
A few weeks ago, I attended a software engineering seminar focused on the role of large language models in programming. The distinguished software engineering professors in attendance were notably skeptical, frequently dismissing…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Divers Video Giant Squid
The video is really amazing.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From insideHPC
Quantum: IonQ to Acquire Lightsynq
COLLEGE PARK, MD – May 7, 2025 – IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a commercial quantum computing and networking company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Lightsynq Technologies Inc., a Boston-based…
From insideHPC
Alice & Bob to Build $50M Quantum Lab in Paris
Paris – May 8, 2025 – Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) company, today announced the construction of a $50 million quantum computing laboratory in Paris to support the development of its products. The company…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Sign Language for Train Departures
This week (5-11th May) is Deaf Awareness Week, an opportunity to celebrate d/Deaf* people, communities, and culture, and to advocate for equal access to communication and services for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing. A recentContinue…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC and CRA-I Release Joint Whitepaper on the Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited to announce the release of a new joint whitepaper with CRA-Industry, The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models. A collaborative effort of leading experts…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Announces ISC Events
Edinburgh, 8 May 2025 - Women in HPC (WHPC), in collaboration with ISC High Performance 2025 (ISC), announced the full WHPC schedule of in-person events aimed at celebrating innovation, inclusion, and leadership in supercomputing…