Now That We Can Write Simultaneously, How Do We Use That to Our Advantage?
Word processors now make it possible for many authors to work on the same document concurrently. But what can they actually do?
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Small-Data Computing: Correct Calculator Arithmetic
Rounding errors are usually avoidable, and sometimes we can afford to avoid them.
Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You
A clutch of companies are changing how work gets done---by using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to improve the customer service experience.
Turing’s Pre-War Analog Computers: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited
Turing's machines of 1936 were a purely mathematical notion, not an exploration of possible blueprints for physical calculators.
In Praise of Under-Specification?
It is interesting to contemplate whether the notion of under-specification that induces flexibility and anticipates new but unknown developments can be codified in a concrete way beyond the purely conceptual.
Data Science: Challenges and Directions
While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that.
How Adults Ages 60+ Are Learning to Code
Philip Guo discusses his project studying older adults that have chosen to learn computer programming.
Technical Perspective: Unexpected Connections
The inherent scalability of an interface is the focus of "The Scalable Commutativity Rule" by Austin T. Clements, et al.
Cracking the Code on DNA Storage
Researchers are tapping DNA to create a new and different type of storage media. The technology could prove revolutionary.
Artificial Intelligence Poised to Ride a New Wave
Flush with recent successes, and pushed by even newer technology, AI systems could get much smarter.
Seeking multidisciplinary research into the rapidly evolving gig-economy.
Reimagining the Avatar Dream: Modeling Social Identity in Digital Media
Explore the limits of using the computer to imagine yourself as whomever or whatever you want to be.
Information and communication technology patents are more influential on subsequent inventions than are other types of patents.
You have three covered boxes of Burmese rubies before you. You know there are a total of 30 identical seven-carat rubies in the three boxes.
The Informal Guide to ACM Fellow Nominations
Recommendations for a successful nomination process.
Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
Ironfleet: Proving Safety and Liveness of Practical Distributed Systems
We demonstrate the methodology on a complex implementation of a Paxos-based replicated state machine library and a lease-based sharded key-value store. With our methodology and lessons learned, we aim to raise the standard for distributed systems from "tested" to "correct."
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