FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware
Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.
Security and Privacy
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Some small companies are making crowdwork part of their formal business via teams that can complete multifaceted, complex tasks requiring specialized expertise.
Europe’s Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem
Decentralizing the chain of trust to a blockchain–also known as a distributed ledger–causes additional privacy and security issues.
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
Apple’s Challenge to Virtualization Software
Is it okay for security researchers to virtualize software to look for vulnerabilities?
Some jargon can be offensive to newcomers and unintentionally shape our thoughts.
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.
A deleted private key, a looming deadline, and a last chance to patch a new static root of trust into the bootloader.
Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence
Making AI more trustworthy with a formal methods-based approach to AI system verification and validation.
I became Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM to make the magazine again the forum where the computer science community shares its most important results.
I am delighted to be joining Communications as a chair for the Viewpoints section. I hope to stir some vigorous debate about the impact of computing for both good and ill, about how the ACM community itself functions, and about its role in society more broadly.
Exploring Questions and Answers in Computer Science Education
We embrace the broader vision of Communications as a place the computing community can come to stay abreast of areas other than its own and are excited to make computing education a part of that vision.
An Association of the Members, by the Members, for the Members
The ACM Future of Computing Academy and social-responsibility initiatives are both very important to the future of ACM, and ACM should not give up on them.
Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information.
Five Years as Editor-in-Chief of Communications
This is my last editorial as Editor-in-Chief of Communications, so it is a moment to share learnings and, of course, to reflect on accomplishments.
As we celebrate ACM's 75th Anniversary this year, it seems a fitting time to consider the community that ACM has fostered.
More on Computing’s Divided Future
Thank you for addressing the danger posed by the current Chinese government's imperialistic ambitions, using every tool at its disposal, including technology and foreign visitors (January 2022 Communications Editor's Letter).
Addressing Labor Shortages with Automation
Labor shortages have many companies turning to automation technology, but with mixed outcomes.
Depending on climate conditions, the availability of renewables and other factors, immersion cooling can make a profound difference in both energy consumption and costs.
Toward Total-System Trustworthiness
Considering how to achieve the long-term goal to systemically reduce risks.
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.
The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
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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