The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
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Consumers Increasingly Touch on Contactless Payments
The ability to pay touch-free during the Coronavirus pandemic is persuading more consumers and retailers to go contactless.
An Enigmatic Device from Denmark
Discovery of a very rare surveying instrument in Denmark.
Computer Systems Research: The Joys, the Perils, and How to Count Beans Well
This post is meant to highlight my subjective take on the joys and the road bumps on the way to doing innovative work in computer systems.
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
Which birthdays would have special significance if our culture were binary-based instead of decimal-based?
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
The Dark Triad and Insider Threats in Cyber Security
Tracing the relationship between pathological personality traits and insider cyber sabotage.
Creating efficiency in AI research will decrease its carbon footprint and increase its inclusivity as deep learning study should not require the deepest pockets.
The Role of LARPing in Computer Science Education
Live-action roleplaying (LARPing) could make computer science education more engaging and effective.
Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?
By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer science challenges. Three classes of challenges are described.
How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?
Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.
Getting Light-based Internet Right
Wireless Internet via light could well be a job for lasers, rather than LEDs.
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
Regulation of AI Remains Elusive
The U.S. and EU are considering regulations on artificial intelligence, but none have been implemented...yet.
What Should Be Done About Social Media?
One of the most basic and urgent policy questions is how to tackle the rising role of social media in our public sphere.
In his September 2020 column, Moshe Vardi criticizes Trump Administration policies prohibiting foreign graduate students and points out the dearth of domestic graduate students willing to fill positions. I would like to share my perspective on why I chose another path.
The special section on Latin America highlights the excellent level of research in computer science that flourishes in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the region.
I can divide my career into three phases: practicing science, enabling science, and advocating for science.
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.
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