Restoring Industry Participation in Computer Science Conferences
When I complained at ISCA 2019 about a lack of papers on real industrial products, I was assigned to help fix the problem.
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A Life-Saving Jog to the Memory
An artificial intelligence-based sensor system can prevent children from being forgotten in locked cars.
Supporting staffers working from home adds another layer to the stress many IT professionals already were feeling.
Ten Challenges of Data Science Education
We highlight 10 challenges of data science education, clustered into three categories: (a) Discipline, (b) Skills, and (c) Environment.
3D Printing Takes Shape During the Pandemic
Three-dimensional printing is transforming medicine during the coronavirus pandemic.
Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet
Harvard University researchers achieve “a milestone along the path to a worldwide quantum Internet.”
Computing Ethics and Teaching It
Ethics can and should be presented to computer science students in appropriate ways.
Pandemic Makes Modeling’s Importance Clear
The number of COVID-19 models was growing so numerous that one laboratory created a COVID-19 forecasting hub featuring an ensemble output of numerous models.
Technical Perspective: ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter
Can we build purpose-built, warehouse-scale datacenters customized for large-scale arrays of ASIC accelerators or, to use a term coined in the paper by Michael Bedford Taylor, et al., ASIC clouds?
A Computational Lens on Economics
Our digital infrastructure, which has become a key component of the economic system in developed countries, is one of the few components that did not buckle under the stress of COVID-19.
Challenge Yourself by Reaching for the Highest Bar
"Challenge yourself and reach for the highest bar. If you succeed, keep pushing the boundaries," my friend advised when I started my career at IBM Research. These words have been a guiding force in my career ever since.
Computing’s Role in Climate Warming
As a computer scientist, I was embarrassed to read the Viewpoint "Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon" (March 2020) from four fellow computer scientists.
Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media
Guaranteeing truth in advertising.
For Impactful Community Engagement: Check Your Role
Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.
Call For a Wake Standard for Artificial Intelligence
Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.
The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter for Planet-Scale Applications
This paper distills lessons from Bitcoin ASIC Clouds and applies them to other large scale workloads, showing superior TCO (total cost of ownership) versus CPU and GPU.
Facial recognition technology faces opposition from technology industry giants, and from the grass roots.
Bolstering Bandwidth with Dual-Channel Wi-Fi
Looking at solutions to handle growing Wi-Fi traffic.
‘Underrepresented Minority’ Considered Harmful, Racist Language
The foundation of any collective action, of any community, is language. It influences how we feel, react, and understand.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
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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