Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2023
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: Addison Snell on the Return of Healthy, Pre-Pandemic Growth for HPC-AI
At ISC 2023, we talked with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC-AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research, about the firm’s latest market update, released before the conference. Snell said the top-line finding from Intersect360’s …
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard
At ISC 2023, we caught up with Joe Curley, Intel vice president and general manager, Software Products and Ecosystem, who updated us on Intel’s strategic support for multi-architecture computing. Our discussion highlighted the…
From insideHPC
HSBC and Quantinuum Explore Quantum Computing in Financial Services
CAMBRIDGE, UK and BROOMFIELD, CO, May 30, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and London-headquartered bank and financial services group HSBC have announced exploratory projects looking at potential benefits of quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA and ServiceNow
Good direction.
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise
Built on ServiceNow Platform With NVIDIA AI Software and DGX Infrastructure, Custom Large Language Models to Bring Intelligent…From insideHPC
AlixPartners and NAX Group Partner on AI and Corporate Data Sets
NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 — AlixPartners, a global consulting firm, and AI software company NAX Group, today announced a partnership to build a platform designed to unlock the value of AI and corporate data sets. The partnership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Integrating LLM into the Wolfram Language
Outline of examples of
LLM interaction as
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/05/the-new-world-of-llm-functions-integrating-llm-technology-into-the-wolfram-language/
Examples of computational Chemistry
https://blog.wolfram…From insideHPC
ArangoDB Announces Release of ArangoDB 3.11 for Search, Graph and Analytics
SAN FRANCISCO – May 30, 2023 – Graph data and analytics platform company ArangoDB today announced the GA release of ArangoDB 3.11 to accelerate its performance across search, graph, and analytics use cases. ArangoDB 3.11 includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Augment SEO
AI Will Augment SEO, By R. Colin Johnson
Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 24, 2023
"I fully expect that future personalized AI-enhanced search engines will allow you to query any corpus of information by requesting that the results…From The Eponymous Pickle
Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself
Have come up with companies thinking this.
Want to Keep AI From Sharing Secrets? Train It Yourself MosaicML delivers a secure platform for hosted AI MATTHEW S. SMITH
On 11 March 2023, Samsung’s Device Solutions division permitted…From The Eponymous Pickle
Now Modern Males Are Behind
Good piece from Irving, I thought I was the only one who noticed this, excerpt with many links within.
Why Men and Boys Are Falling Behind
A few weeks ago, Richard Reeves was Ezra Klein’s guest in his NY Times podcast “The…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member, Kevin Fu, Appointed to White House PCAST Working Group
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently created a working group on physical resilience. The working group is made up of cyber-security experts from across academia, government and industry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LangChain intro at Work
Taking a look at LangChain, see below, with link to detail.
Getting Started with LangChain: A Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
A LangChain tutorial to build anything with large language models in Python
From…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Advantage
Quantum Advantage
Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage
By Torsten Hoefler, Thomas Häner, Matthias Troyer
Communications of the ACM, May 2023, Vol. 66 No. 5, Pages 82-87 10.1145/3571725…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers from UC Berkeley Introduce Gorilla LLM
And more implementations.
By Tanya Malhotra
A recent breakthrough in the field of Artificial IntelligenceThough…From insideHPC
NWP Development with Nearly 10x Higher Performance Provided by Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage
ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting…
From Schneier on Security
Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader
It’s neither hard nor expensive:
Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold…From The Eponymous Pickle
WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising
Despite all pausing and hand wringing, AI enabled Generation Ad production goes on. All resonsibe?
WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising
Groundbreaking Engine Built on…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer
Chip giant says Israel-1 supercomputer valued at several hundred million dollars is a ‘major investment’ that will boost next-generation AI workloads…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
Brought to my attention. in the-encoder.com
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.
Since the unveiling…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers
Remarkable ...
Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers
By New Scientist, May 25, 2023
University of Arizona researchers demonstrated that trapping sound in a simple mechanical device can imitate certainThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can China overtake the US in the AI Marathon?
ChatGPT: Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon?
By Derek Cai & Annabelle Liang in BBC News
Artificial intelligence has emerged as enough of a concern that it made it onto what was already a packed agenda at the G7 summit…From The Eponymous Pickle
Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution
Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution
By NUS News (Singapore), May 18, 2023
A large scale angle-sensing structure comprising nanocrystal phospors, a key component of the sensor, illuminated…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Boost for the Quantum Internet
A Boost for the Quantum Internet
Universitat Innsbruck (Austria)
May 23, 2023
Researchers at Austria's University of Innsbruck transmitted quantum information with a quantum repeater node operating at telecommunication networks'…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Black in Data
Careers do not have to be decided on from day one. You can end up in a good place in a roundabout way. That is what happened to Sadiqah Musa, and now she is helping make the paths easier for others to follow, particularly for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying AI
Seems interesting, Agree there is mush understanding. More at the link. Will read.
Demystifying AI..
Where to Draw the Line Between Myth and Reality
First things first: Why exactly has AI become such a nebulous term…From BLOG@CACM
Education is always changing: We need to define CS to keep the good stuff
Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.
From Computational Complexity
On Nov 10, 2014 the TV show Scorpion mentions Software that is like ChatGPT for Music
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the government battle threats and/or solve crimes.
The episode Risky…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers Compared
Useful, see link to full article linked to below there are 24 processors!
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Los Alamos National Laboratory compared leading quantum computers using the Quantum Computing UserThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Generational Differences Affect Consumer Attitudes Towards Ads
As a big advertiser, something we thought about.
Meta Research
How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads
By: Melanie Beer Zeldin
Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?
Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?
By Futurism, May 12, 2023
Google's new search interface, built on a model trained on unpaid-for human output, will swallow even more human-made content and spit it back out to information…