Improving Performance on the Internet
Given the Internet's bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Compiler Research: The Next 50 Years
Four recommendations address the major challenges to keeping compilers and high-level languages vibrant.
Technical Perspective: Tools For Information to Flow Securely and Swift-ly
Back in the old days of the Web (before 1995), Web browsers were fairly simple devices. The server's Web interface was simple enough that an auditor could at least look at it and reason about its security. Today, it's a different world.
Building Secure Web Applications With Automatic Partitioning
Swift is a new, principled approach to building Web applications that are secure by construction. Swift automatically partitions application code while providing assurance that the resulting placement is secure and efficient.
Oracle, Where Shall I Submit My Papers?
In April 2005, a group of MIT students pulled prank1 on the conference World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics [WMSCI]10-known for sending unsolicited invitation emails to people in academia. The MIT students used software to generate bogus research papers, complete with context-free grammar, and submitted two of them to the conference. To their […]
Climate researchers have no shortage of scientific issues on which to expend computer power. The biggest problem is choosing which one to tackle first.
Two virtual astronomical telescopes promise to transform the way people view and study the cosmos.
Viewpoint: Scaling the Academic Publication Process to Internet Scale
A proposal to remedy problems in the reviewing process.
Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.
The sometimes contentious development of 64-bit systems shows how technology decisions can have unexpected, enduring consequences.
Technical Perspective: Customizing Media to Displays
A mind-boggling array of displays differ greatly in resolutions and aspect ratios. But images and videos are captured at fixed resolutions and aspect ratios, and viewing them properly in a display can be a challenge.
Seam Carving For Media Retargeting
Traditional image resizing techniques are oblivious to the content of the image when changing its width or height. In contrast, media (i.e., image and video) retargeting takes content into account.
Automating Commonsense Reasoning Using the Event Calculus
Commonsense reasoning is the human ability to make inferences about properties and events in the everyday world. The automation of commonsense reasoning, long a goal of the field of artificial intelligence3 and an area of active research in the last decade,8 is attaining a level of maturity. Automating commonsense reasoning allows us to build applications […]
Future Tense, one of the revolving features on this page, presents stories from the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, their boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what will and could be.
CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
Researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers a reality.
Previewing the New CACM Web Site
Readers use Communications' content—print and digital—in different ways. These habits have significantly impacted the design of the soon-to-be-launched Communications Web site.
Enhancing Business Performance via Vendor Managed Inventory Applications
Modern Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) connect companies in new and novel ways and, as a result, allow them to develop new competencies for competing successfully. ICTs make it possible for companies to collaborate on the design of new products and services, configure new sales and distribution channels, and efficiently replenish those channels to reduce […]
A Framework of ICT Exploitation For E-Participation Initiatives
Governments around the world are tapping on the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform the public sector, a phenomenon broadly known as e-government. Deployment of ICT in government is expected to improve internal efficiency and provide citizens with better information and services. The increasing interest in e-government is evident in the rising […]
Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?
The promise of STM may likely be undermined by its overheads and workload applicabilities.
The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks
Internet-based data on human interaction connects scientific inquiry like never before.
Polaris: A System For Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases
In this paper, we address these demands by presenting the Polaris formalism, a visual query language for precisely describing a wide range of table-based graphical presentations of data.
Technical Perspective: The Polaris Tableau System
Jim Gray nominated the Polaris paper for the Research Highlights section and wrote the first draft of this Technical Perspective in November 2006. David Patterson revised the essay in August 2008.
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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