Clocks tick faster on the Moon, which over time could lead to timing errors that are too large to accept for safe lunar navigation or autonomous navigation.
Computing professionals should use their privileges and insights to help societies navigate questions about digital technologies that traditional ethical theories find difficult to answer.
Autonomic governance is not about handing control to machines. It’s about encoding rules, checks, and balances into the systems we trust to operate at scale.
Knowledge flows naturally when experts are teaching, collaborating, or working through challenges together, and not when they're asked to pause work and document their insights.
The Reviewer Board is a pilot project for Communications of the ACM (CACM) to help ensure timely, high-quality reviews. The Board is composed of researchers nominated by an associate editor who is confident in the board member’s work. Invitation to participate in this project is a sign of confidence and trust in the expertise and […]
Critics say human interactions between captain and copilot on flight decks keep airliners flying safely, and that AI-based ‘copilots’ are a risk too far.
Laziness is only one of two desirable properties for a bookshelf algorithm. The second is the ability to proactively respond to an adversary’s strategy.
Communications 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.
