Vinton G. Cerf wonders "whether there is any possibility of establishing 'watcher networks'" in his October 2022 Communications "Cerf's Up" column. Philip K. Dick describes this problem in his story The Minority Report.
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Why Data Security Is An Issue For Business Phone Systems In 2023
A discussion of the most common phone scams, how they work, and how to protect yourself from them.
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
5 Best Practices for Cloud-Based Backup and Recovery in 2023
These practices help technical professionals ensure their organizations' data is protected and can be recovered quickly.
Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias
"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded to the publication of the groundbreaking 2018 "Gender Shades" study.
A review of network science and complexity theory as they apply to the ability of systems to resist stress and recover from faults.
ACE: Toward Application-Centric, Edge-Cloud, Collaborative Intelligence
Constructing a unified platform for the scalable, reliable, robust, and efficient development and deployment of ECCI applications.
Democratizing Domain-Specific Computing
Creating a programming environment and compilation flow that empowers programmers to create their own DSAs efficiently and affordably on FPGAs.
This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial analysis models.
Computing Divided: How Wide the Chasm?
Four years have seen accelerating division and growing fissures driven by international geopolitics and increasing technology and trade restrictions. The world is at an inflection point. What should ACM do?
For the U.S. to compete with China, the U.S. is using Chinese talent. Approximately 65% of doctoral students in computing in North America are international students. My estimate is that this pool is dominated by Chinese students.
A Computer Scientist with a Biologist’s Ambition: Advance Humanity
I became a computer science student without ever having seen a computer before.
Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Architectures
The overhead of error correction presents a serious challenge to scaling up quantum computing and may produce unexpected winners.
Making Traffic a Thing of the Past
New AI technologies are making it possible to autonomously reduce traffic.
In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 1931-2022
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. "was a statesman in the best sense of the word, as well as a great leader, a very kind man, and a fine engineer," said fellow ACM A.M. Turing Award winner and ACM Fellow Ivan Sutherland.
Computer scientist Valérie Issarny, a director of research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and chair of the ACM Europe Council since October 2021, passed away November 12, 2022.
Are We Cobblers without Shoes?: Making Computer Science Data FAIR
In search of more efficient data sharing.
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
Quantum Computers and the Universe
Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.
Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.
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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