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Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.
Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment
Mediating social change or reinforcing male hegemony?
The Chess Player Who Couldn’t Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
Computational Thinking For Teacher Education
This framework for developing pre-service teachers' knowledge does not necessarily depend on computers or other educational technology.
Attack of the Killer Microseconds
Microsecond-scale I/O means tension between performance and productivity that will need new latency-mitigating ideas, including in hardware.
Crafting a National Cyberdefense, and Preparing to Support Computational Literacy
John Arquilla considers how we should interpret the alleged Russian cyberattack on the U.S. Presidential election; Mark Guzdial describes the potential benefits of a 'computing lab.'
A Service Computing Manifesto: The Next 10 Years
Mapping out the challenges and strategies for the widespread adoption of service computing.
Technical Perspective: Proving File Systems Meet Expectations
"Certifying a File System Using Crash Hoare Logic: Correctness in the Presence of Crashes" presents a big step toward real-world file systems that are crash-safe in a strict sense.
Certifying a File System Using Crash Hoare Logic: Correctness in the Presence of Crashes
This paper introduces Crash Hoare logic, which extends traditional Hoare logic with a crash condition, a recovery procedure, and logical address spaces for specifying disk states at different abstraction levels.
Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
In Black Box Algorithms We Trust (or Do We?)
Some issues that arise from the use of algorithms may be due to the data they are fed, rather than their black-box nature.
Thinking Deeply to Make Better Speech
More work is needed to make synthesized speech more natural, easier to understand, and more pleasant to hear.
Computational Support For Academic Peer Review: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence
New tools tackle an age-old practice.
Making the Field of Computing More Inclusive
More accessible conferences, digital resources, and ACM SIGs will lead to greater participation by more people with disabilities.
The Path to the Top: Insights from Career Histories of Top CIOs
Along the way, acquire technical expertise and a master's degree, even while changing positions and companies.
Technical Perspective: Data Distribution For Fast Joins
What is the most drastic way to reduce the cost of communication for parallel data processing algorithms? This is the question studied in "Reasoning on Data Partitioning for Single-Round Multi-Join Evaluation in Massively Parallel Systems."
ACM’s Commitment to Accessibility
As ACM's President, I remain focused on issues of diversity. I would like to highlight two key aspects of accessibility already being addressed by ACM. The first is digital accessibility; the second is conference accessibility.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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