Using Any Surface to Realize a New Paradigm for Wireless Communications
Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.
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Introducing Communications’ Regional Special Sections
I am pleased to introduce the first regional special section of Communications, which we hope will become a feature that you anticipate and enjoy, and of course value for the insights and perspectives it presents!
Regional Computing Culture and Personalities
Despite China's massive market and bountiful opportunities for computing careers, Chinese corporations face great obstacles in attracting high-tech talent.
Can China Lead the Development of Data Trading and Sharing Markets?
A survey of China's data trading and sharing markets.
Exploiting Psychology and Social Behavior for Game Stickiness
Interactive video games, which support various forms of collaboration and confrontation among gamers, create an obsessive stickiness.
Welcome to the China Region Special Section
We are pleased to present the China Region special section.
China plans to become the world's high-tech leader, and quickly.
Quantum Communication at 7,600km and Beyond
There are two major challenges to achieving secure quantum cryptography over long distances.
Consumers, Corporations, and Government: Computing in China
Unique historical, socioeconomic, and political conditions have created a distinctive path for China's rapid integration of computing and technology into its economy and society.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in China
In addition to government-supported academic research, China's technical giants, such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei, are actively investing in AI research and related development.
Cloud Bursting for the World’s Largest Consumer Market
The development and popularization of cloud computing, especially in emerging domains, brings great convenience and also poses new challenges.
Fintech: AI Powers Financial Services to Improve People's Lives
Financial technology, or fintech, is a fast-evolving field that has reshaped the financial industry.
Video Consumption, Social Networking, and Influence
China's online video industry has as many similarities as differences with the U.S.
Simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability set Lua apart from other scripting languages.
Modern Debugging: The Art of Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Systematic use of proven debugging approaches and tools lets programmers address even apparently intractable bugs.
Skill Discovery in Virtual Assistants
Skill recommendations must be provided when users need them most, without being obtrusive or distracting.
Will Supercomputers Be Super-Data and Super-AI Machines?
New challenges in architecture, system software, and application technologies must be addressed to help develop next-generation exascale supercomputing systems.
Corp to Cloud: Google’s Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
Software Challenges for the Changing Storage Landscape
Conventional storage software stacks are unable to meet the needs of high-performance Storage-Class Memory technology. It is time to rethink 50-year-old architectures.
Technical Perspective: Backdoor Engineering
"Where Did I Leave My Keys?" by Checkoway et al. reports on the amazing independent reconstruction of a backdoor, discovered in the firmware of a VPN router commonly used to secure access to corporate intranets.
Where Did I Leave My Keys?: Lessons from the Juniper Dual EC Incident
In this paper, we describe the results of a full independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness and VPN key establishment protocol subsystems, which we carried out in response to the Juniper Dual Elliptic Curve incident.
Recruiting With Virtual Reality
As the market for new employees grows increasingly competitive, some recruiters use virtual reality applications to attract qualified candidates.
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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