To all researchers out there, here you can find countdowns to major distributed systems, performance, and software engineering conference deadlines: ds-deadlines.github.io/?sub=DS,BC,ES,… Please share and contribute by adding relevant upcoming conferences!

Ludwig v0.8 - the first #opensource toolkit to help you efficiently build custom #LLMs on your private #data - is now on Product Hunt. Check it out and show some love: producthunt.com/posts/ludwig-0…

The full program of the International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC) is online: wscc2023.di.unipi.it/program/ We hope to see you in person at the EURO-PAR 2023 conference! #conference #europar #computecontinuum

I've put my lecture notes from my Fall 2022 Quantum Computation course online. math.mit.edu/~shor/435-LN/ I don't guarantee that there aren't any mistakes left in them, although I've tried to eradicate them all. If you find any, feel free to email me.

NEW POST #5 in the bottlenecks of scaleups series. Punit Lad and Carl Nygard explain that resilience needs to be built into the business objectives, influencing architecture, design, product management, and even governance of business systems. martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

⚠️ Extended deadline ⚠️ The "International Workshop on Quality of Service-aware #Serverless Computing" (QServ'23) will be co-located with IEEE/ACM UCC 2023 in Taormina (Italy). 🗓️Submission deadline: September 19th! qserv23.github.io

Compute continuum (CC) enables the enhancement of latency-sensitive and privacy-aware applications and services, without having to worry about how and where their components will be executed. But how to unleash the true potential of CC? Submit your contribution to this SI:

To no one's surprise, the Nobel Prize goes to Claudia Goldin Here are 3 things from her to start your dive into her work:

In Summer 2023, the Zcash Foundation 🛡️ engaged NCC Group Research & Technology to conduct a security assessment of the Foundation’s FROST threshold signature implementation, based on the paper FROST: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures. 👇 research.nccgroup.com/2023/10/23/pub…

Which latency numbers you should know? Please note those are not precise numbers. They are based on some online benchmarks (Jeff Dean’s latency numbers + some other sources). 🔹L1 and L2 caches: 1 ns, 10 ns E.g.: They are usually built onto the microprocessor chip. Unless you

Important updates on DS Conference Deadlines: ds-deadlines.github.io/?sub=DS,BC,ES,… Check it out to track deadlines of upcoming conferences

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863

#Mattarella: Quando la nostra #Costituzione parla di diritti, usa il verbo “riconoscere”. Significa che i diritti umani sono nati prima dello Stato. Ma, anche, che una democrazia si nutre, prima di tutto, della capacità di ascoltare. Occorre coraggio per ascoltare

Congratulations to Amanda Randles on being named an ACM Distinguished Member for 2023! Amanda attended the 1st HLF in 2013 – it is amazing how far her career has come in the last 10 years!

L'Università di Pisa partecipa alla rivoluzione nei Servizi Cloud europei unipi.it/index.php/news…

Il monito di Bankitalia, Panetta: “L’Italia unico Paese Ue che spende più per interessi sul debito che per l’istruzione” - La Stampa La Stampa lastampa.it/economia/2024/…

Always a big shock when basic research gets into troubles because it doesn't do enough profit Maciej Gdula IDEAS NCBR Piotr Sankowski

Tim Ruffing (Tim Ruffing) and Jonas Nick (ncklr) posted to the mailing list a link to the current draft BIP for ChillDKG, which describes a distributed key generation protocol compatible with FROST scriptless threshold signatures for Bitcoin... bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…

Happy to announce that we have (finally) proven the adaptive security of FROST! See our recent publication "On the Adaptive Security of FROST" which was accepted to CRYPTO '25. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1061