A Tool for Hardening Java Crypto
A new tool identifies cryptographic vulnerabilities in Java (and soon, in Python) automatically.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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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?
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.
The Data Science Life Cycle: A Disciplined Approach to Advancing Data Science as a Science
A cycle that traces ways to define the landscape of data science.
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.
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.
Safety Proposal Points in Same Direction
In her February 2020 column ("Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?"), Nancy Leveson says the solution to software safety is not "building a software architecture and generating the requirements later." We are surprised that anyone would propose such an approach.
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology
It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.
A detailed picture of financial information relating to ACM's publications revenues and expenses.
Deceiving the Masses on Social Media
The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.
Revealing the Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
It's time to appreciate the human side of Internet-facing software systems.
The use of post-incident artifacts in high-performing organizations.
A Bibliometric Approach for Detecting the Gender Gap in Computer Science
Identifying female CS scientists by combining a robust bibliographic database and name filtering tools.
The use of software to determine bail and sentencing terms has gone mainstream. How fair are these systems?
Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are aiding hospitals and healthcare experts in the battle against the coronavirus.
Two books, one published to great acclaim and the other still in process, resonate with a visceral intensity for which I was honestly unprepared and surprised.
Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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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