Insights for AI from the Human Mind
How the cognitive sciences can inform the quest to build systems with the flexibility of the human mind.
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How to Transition Incrementally to Microservice Architecture
A field study examines technological advances that have created versatile software ecosystems to develop and deploy microservices.
Digital Instruments as Invention Machines
An analysis of patenting history from 1850 to 2010 to detect long-term patterns of knowledge spillovers via prior-art citations of patented inventions.
The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car
Are U.S. government employees behaving ethically when they stockpile software vulnerabilities?
Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes
In this paper, we study the asymptotic scaling of the space overhead needed for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Technical Perspective: Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation
In "Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes," by Omar Fawzi, et al., the authors produce an algorithm that can rapidly deduce the error in a quantum expander code, even when the syndrome is partially incorrect.
Teaching Critical Computing is a Grand Challenge for the Whole CS Curriculum
We need to prepare our students' to have a critical perspective on computing, and that requires changing the curriculum, not just a course.
Konrad Zuse’s Guestbook: a Treasure Trove
Computer scientist Konrad Zuse created the world's first programmable computer, the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3.
The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.
From Solar Sunrise to SolarWinds
The hack of critical departments of the U.S. government—and of many leading corporations—should come as no surprise.
The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
The Year-Round Joys and Benefits of Open Source Software
One of the things that makes us programmers feel warm and fuzzy is open source software. Companies support open source too. Why give something away for free? A lot of individuals contribute open source code out of a genuine sense of altruism. Yet when it comes to companies, it’s often a strategic choice, and one they expect to benefit from. Let's review how companies benefit from open source.
Consumers Increasingly Touch on Contactless Payments
The ability to pay touch-free during the Coronavirus pandemic is persuading more consumers and retailers to go contactless.
An Enigmatic Device from Denmark
Discovery of a very rare surveying instrument in Denmark.
Computer Systems Research: The Joys, the Perils, and How to Count Beans Well
This post is meant to highlight my subjective take on the joys and the road bumps on the way to doing innovative work in computer systems.
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
Which birthdays would have special significance if our culture were binary-based instead of decimal-based?
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
U.S. States Must Broaden Participation While Expanding Access to Computer Science Education
Incorporating equity and inclusion in the effort toward access for everyone.
Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving AI
Engineering and algorithmic framework to ensure data privacy and user confidentiality.
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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