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FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data
A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.
Producing Competent HPC Graduates
Employers seek recruits who can apply the knowledge, skill, and culture they acquire in college to solve problems as soon as they enter the workforce.
The Evolution of Mathematical Software
Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.
Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography
Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.
How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?
A framework for aiding future Java mutation tool comparisons.
DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale
This paper introduces DIAMetrics: a novel framework for end-to-end benchmarking and performance monitoring of query engines.
Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI
Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.
Cyberlaw: Where We Are and What’s On the Horizon
Legislating for cyberspace means establishing new legal frameworks and rethinking existing ones. The global picture is mixed.
AI is Solving Classical Computing’s Quantum Problem
Quantum computers, once thought to be "superior" to classical computers, increasingly are being seen as yet another accelerator for specialized problems, according to IBM.
Technology Transforms Textiles
Robotic fabrics sense motion and movements, and adapt accordingly.
Small Sensors for Big Challenges
Shwetak Patel hopes to build something that could impact the lives of a billion people.
The Impact of Virtual Meetings
Virtual meetings have mixed effects on employee productivity, creativity, and relationships.
An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
Mobile-App Privacy Nutrition Labels Missing Key Ingredients for Success
Android and iOS privacy labels confuse developers and end users.
A Formal Approach to Identifying the Impact of Noise on Neural Networks
An overview of the state of the art and its limitations for analyzing the impacts of noise on artificial neural networks.
Computing for Climate Resilience in Agriculture
A report on the Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture (PoCRA) program whose main objective is to make smallholder farmers resilient to climate variability through targeted interventions.
Rethinking Silicon Valley: Stewart Brand's Lost Journal
Discovering a hidden chapter in computing history.
This second regional special section from India represents the diversity and excitement of the computational sciences in India through 15 articles, all co-written by authors from the Indian subcontinent.
Computing and Assistive Technology Solutions for the Visually Impaired
While accessibility normally refers only to the modality for making information accessible, in the Indian context, it is tightly tied to affordability.
Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
The SHAKTI Processor Program started as an academic initiative in 2014 aimed to create open source, industrial-grade processors and build associated components of a more extensive ecosystem.
Impactful Research and Tooling for Program Correctness
We have been developing two frameworks — VeriAbs and VeriFuzz — to solve the problems of formal methods to improve software quality, which often fail to scale to the size and complexity of software.
Digital Interventions at Scale: Lessons from NPTEL and IIT Madras B.S. Degree Program
Online learning provides an effective approach to some of the systemic challenges related to higher education in India. Two key initiatives have demonstrated positive results.
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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