Pointers in Far Memory
It is the best of times and it is the worst of times in the world of datacenter memory technology. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) revenues...
View ArticleHow Flexible Is CXL’s Memory Protection?
In the beginning, there was PCIe. Well, really there was PCI and PCI-X, which were superseded by PCIe in 2003, and many others, such as ISA and VME, before them, but PCIe is a superset of them all....
View ArticleData Analytics Anywhere and Everywhere
Data is now collected everywhere and can be accessed anywhere. Whether you are deciding which product to buy, which potential customer to visit, or which restaurant to frequent, many situations in our...
View Article‘On Expert Testimony’: A Response
This post was created in response to the Cerf's Up article "On Expert Testimony" that appeared in the December 2023 issue of Communications. In October, I had the honor of participating with Vinton...
View ArticleAre You Confident in Your Backups?
The importance of data backups cannot be overestimated. Backups are essential for reducing the harm from hardware failures and lessening the effects of various hacker attacks, with ransomware being...
View ArticleSeesaw Gold
Consider a seesaw of length six meters. The fulcrum is at the three-meter mark. There is a gold weight of one kilogram at the one-meter mark and one at the four-meter mark. This is represented as:...
View ArticleMitigating Urban Climate Change
Planting trees—lots of them—is one of the most popular ways local governments attempt to counter the warming effects of climate change. Worldwide, municipalities have launched tree planting programs...
View ArticleImproving Testing of Deep-Learning Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are finding applications in many domains. With their continued success, however, come significant challenges and uncertainties. These include:...
View ArticleA Unifying Framework for Incompleteness, Inconsistency, and Uncertainty in...
Databases are often assumed to have definite content. The reality, though, is that the database at hand may be deficient due to missing, invalid, or uncertain information. As a simple illustration,...
View ArticleHow to Navigate Generative AI within the Regulatory Frameworks of Banking and...
Application of Generative AI within the strict guardrails of banking and finance is a critical endeavor that requires a delicate balance between innovation and compliance. These advanced AI systems...
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