Remote Repairs, Healthy Crops, Police Surveillance: The Future of Drones, Ar, and Vr
The future, according to the world's largest vendor of networking gear, is all part of the Internet of Things.
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Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem
Using database views to define citable units is the key to specifying and generating citations to data.
Dynamic Presentation Consistency Issues in Smartphone Mapping Apps
Smartphone mapping apps routinely fail to follow centuries-old mapmaking dynamic consistency principles and practices.
Scientists are learning more about what makes robots and chatbots engaging.
Technical Perspective: Jupiter Rising
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous, exhibits strong regularity within its structure, and when its bandwidth needs exceed the capabilities of those of any available equipment vendor.
Graphical processing units have emerged as a major powerhouse in the computing world, unleashing huge advancements in deep learning and AI.
Learning Executable Semantic Parsers For Natural Language Understanding
Semantic parsing is a rich fusion of the logical and the statistical worlds.
A New Look at the Semantic Web
Seeking to make Web data "smarter" by utilizing a new kind of semantics.
Designing AI Systems that Obey Our Laws and Values
Calling for research on automatic oversight for artificial intelligence systems.
Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
Imaging the Propagation of Light Through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution
We present a novel imaging technique, which we call femtophotography, to capture and visualize the propagation of light through table-top scenes with an effective exposure time of 1.85 ps per frame.
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.
Technical Perspective: The Dawn of Computational Light Transport
What would the world look like if we had a chance to observe it with a trillion frame-per-second video camera? "Imaging the Propagation of Light through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution" by Velten et al. represents an audacious attempt to answer this for the very first time.
Academic Rankings Considered Harmful!
Academic rankings, in general, provide highly misleading ways to inform academic decision making by individuals. Using such rankings for academic decision making is letting third-party business interests influence our academic values.
Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.
Tim Berners-Lee and others want a more reliable Web that ensures integrity and privacy.
Augmented Reality Not Just For Gaming
Beyond entertainment, applications for augmented and virtual reality are being developed for business.
14 Years of a Learner-Centered Python IDE
How we thought about the JES pedagogical programming environment for students over the last 14 years.
When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
Skills For Success at Different Stages of an IT Professional’s Career
The skills and knowledge that earn promotions are not always enough to ensure success in the new position.
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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