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Research and Advances May 1 2019

Compressed Linear Algebra for Declarative Large-Scale Machine Learning

General-purpose compression struggles to achieve both good compression ratios and fast decompression for blockwise uncompressed operations. Therefore, we introduce Compressed Linear Algebra for lossless matrix compression.

Opinion May 1 2019

Like Old Times

The Furby singularity promises eternal conversation with the untimely departed.

Ken MacLeod

News May 1 2019

Code Talkers

Using voice input to write programs.

Neil Savage

Opinion May 1 2019

Continuity and Change in Internet Law

The fundamentals of the field of Internet law have remained consistent, but details have evolved in response to technological innovation.

James Grimmelmann

Opinion May 1 2019

What Does It Mean for a Computing Curriculum to Succeed?

Examining the expansion, proliferation, and integration of computing education everywhere.

Emmanuel Schanzer, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Kathi Fisler

Practice May 1 2019

Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling

Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.

Aleksandar Kuzmanovic

Practice May 1 2019

Online Event Processing

Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.

Martin Kleppmann, Alastair R. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen

Practice May 1 2019

Achieving Digital Permanence

The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.

Raymond Blum and Betsy Beyer

Opinion May 1 2019

APIs, Standards, and Enabling Infrastructure

The widespread sharing of common or standardized APIs confers rich opportunities for choices of operating system or library implementations for the programming of applications.

Vinton G. Cerf

BLOG@CACM May 1 2019

Implementing Guidelines for Governance, Oversight of AI, and Automation

Governance and independent oversight on the design and implementation of all forms of artificial intelligence and automation is a cresting wave about to break comprehensively on the field of IT and computing.

Ryan Carrier

News Apr 30 2019

Fitness Monitors, Smartwatches are Not Medical Devices

Manufacturers may blur the distinctions, but they're important.

Jake Widman

The latest Apple Watch incorporates a heart rate sensor that can provide early warning of atrial fibrilliation.

BLOG@CACM Apr 20 2019

Soundness and Completeness: Defined With Precision

The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.

Bertrand Meyer

News Apr 11 2019

A Healthy Dose of Wearables

Smart watches and other wearables are evolving into medical devices that will drive significant changes in healthcare.

Samuel Greengard

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2019

Pondering Variables and Direct Instruction

Robin K. Hill considers the nature of variables, while Mark Guzdial reflects on renewed interest in the "direct instruction model."

Robin K. Hill and Mark Guzdial

News Apr 1 2019

The Future of Data Storage

Research into next-generation storage techniques marches forward, yet tape remains the most viable, dependable medium.

Samuel Greengard

Research and Advances Apr 1 2019

Neural Algorithms and Computing Beyond Moore’s Law

Advances in neurotechnologies are reigniting opportunities to bring neural computation insights into broader computing applications.

James B. Aimone

Research and Advances Apr 1 2019

Web Science in Europe: Beyond Boundaries

There is increasing concern in Europe—and beyond—that the Web has become a vehicle of disintegration, polarization, and exploitation. Web Science seeks to investigate, analyze, and intervene in the Web from a sociotechnical perspective.

Steffen Staab, Susan Halford, and Wendy Hall

Research and Advances Apr 1 2019

Toward a European Exascale Ecosystem: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

European supercomputing infrastructures represent a strategic resource for understanding and responding to the increasing challenges European citizens will face in the years to come.

Thomas Skordas

Research and Advances Apr 1 2019

Connected Things Connecting Europe

Modern embedded system microcontroller and transceiver technology advancements have brought forth the kinds of systems we have defined for some time in Europe as "embedded intelligence."

communication connections on map of Europe, illustration

Opinion Apr 1 2019

Know Your Algorithms

Stop using hardware to solve software problems.

George V. Neville-Neil

Practice Apr 1 2019

Identity by Any Other Name

The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.

Pat Helland

Practice Apr 1 2019

Metrics That Matter

Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.

Benjamin Treynor Sloss, Shylaja Nukala, and Vivek Rau

man with giant ruler measuring the word 'Reliability,' illustration

Research and Advances Apr 1 2019

Analytics for Managerial Work

Work in finance, marketing, human resources, and operations increasingly relies on analytics—with more to come.

Vijay Khatri and Binny M. Samuel

BLOG@CACM Mar 29 2019

An Agile Approach to Learning Programming

The Super Simple Programming Book is one example to teach programming in an Agile way. In general, Agile concepts can lead to highly effective learning.

Edwin Torres

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