Cultivating Habits: -1 +2 for Researchers
The New Year is stereotypically the time when we resolve to start some good habits and get rid of some of the bad.
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Epic Versus Apple and the Future of App Stores
Seeking a more equitable way to govern and distribute the revenues generated by App-store marketplaces.
The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic
Turning believers into nonbelievers.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
A look through the lens of neighbor discovery protocols reveals significant potential to improve electronic contact-tracing accuracy.
Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.
Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments
We present an algorithm to detect nine eyelid gestures on smartphones in real time and evaluate it with 12 able-bodied people and four people with severe motor impairments in two studies.
Technical Perspective: Eyelid Gestures Enhance Mobile Interaction
"Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments," by Mingming Fan et al., addresses the accessibility of mobile devices to people with motor impairments.
Confidential Computing Conquers Hacks
Protecting data while it is in use, rather than at rest or in flight.
Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
When Curation Becomes Creation
Algorithms, microcontent, and the vanishing distinction between platforms and creators.
Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.
Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
We present software-defined cooking (SDC), a low-cost closed-loop microwave oven system that aims to heat food in a software-defined thermal trajectory.
Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution
"Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven," by Haojian Jin et al., introduces a feedback mechanism to microwave heating through a technique the authors call software-defined cooking.
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website
We can control our online ecological impact.
Hybrid systems enhance the capabilities of electronics with biologics.
Shape the Future of Computing
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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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