Language Models: Past, Present, and Future
A language modeling overview, highlighting basic concepts, intuitive explanations, technical achievements, and fundamental challenges.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics
In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.
I became Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM to make the magazine again the forum where the computer science community shares its most important results.
I am delighted to be joining Communications as a chair for the Viewpoints section. I hope to stir some vigorous debate about the impact of computing for both good and ill, about how the ACM community itself functions, and about its role in society more broadly.
Exploring Questions and Answers in Computer Science Education
We embrace the broader vision of Communications as a place the computing community can come to stay abreast of areas other than its own and are excited to make computing education a part of that vision.
An Association of the Members, by the Members, for the Members
The ACM Future of Computing Academy and social-responsibility initiatives are both very important to the future of ACM, and ACM should not give up on them.
Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact of using sampled metrics instead of exactly computed metrics.
Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on visualization search.
Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.
Enterprise Metrics and Optimization
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Development Contests into Crisis
In my opinion, the main problem of the InnovateFPGA contest is the lack of a permanent team to lead.
Inventing an imaginary company helped me imagine how powerful it can be to have data available that permits fact-based analysis of business performance, projections for future business operations, and understanding of the marketplace the business serves.
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades.
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing's Responsibility
Efficiencies delivered by computing technology could play a vital role in enabling continued functionality within a resource-constrained future.
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.
The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
The growing popularity of computational workflows is also a cause for concern. How can we enjoy the common benefits of the workflows and eliminate the risks?
Perspectives on the role and responsibility of the data-management research community in designing, developing, using, and overseeing automated decision systems.
Challenges, Experiments, and Computational Solutions in Peer Review
Improving the peer review process in a scientific manner shows promise.
Learning New Things and Avoiding Obstacles
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Jack Dongarra never intended to work with computers.
5 Often Overlooked Coding Mistakes New Web Developers Need to Avoid
Avoiding these common, easily preventable blunders will help you maximize success in your career journey.
Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication
We propose a rateless fountain coding strategy and prove that its latency is asymptotically equal to ideal load balancing, and it performs asymptotically zero redundant computations.
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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