Systems and Networking – Communications of the ACM

Opinion Apr 16 2024

Technical Perspective: Creating the Internet of Biological and Bio-Inspired Things

"mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking," by Inhee Lee et al., describes a critical milestone in the mobile system…

Shyamnath Gollakota

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Research and Advances Apr 16 2024

mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-Modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking

We propose a wireless sensing platform, mSAIL, specifically designed for a monarch butterfly migration study based on previously developed custom-designed ICs.

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Opinion Apr 12 2024

Human Intuition and Algorithmic Efficiency Must Be Balanced to Enhance Data Mesh Resilience

Data mesh management with a human touch.

Opinion Apr 1 2024

Vendor-Locked DevOps Strategies

Cloud-agnostic and vendor-locked strategies are two sides of the same coin.

William Dunbar

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Practice Mar 28 2024

Adopting and Sustaining Microservice-Based Software Development

The microservice approach to software development offers an alternative to the conventional monolith style.

Padmal Vitharana and Shahir A. Daya

News Mar 27 2024

More Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

Researchers are exploring ways to reduce a quantum system's lopsided ratio of error-correction qubits to logical qubits.

Don Monroe

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Research and Advances Mar 25 2024

Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement

In this paper, we design an online algorithm for refugee allocation.

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Opinion Mar 25 2024

Technical Perspective: Improving Refugees’ Integration with Online Resource Allocation

"Dynamic Placement in Refugee Resettlement," by Narges Ahani et al., applies online resource allocation concepts to a new and important area: refugee resettlement.

Daniel Freund

BLOG@CACM Mar 14 2024

Ensuring Business Continuity with Backup Cloud Storage Choices

A properly selected backup data storage solution will help ensure the safety and reliability of your data, which is a vital aspect of any business's successful and stable…

Alex Vakulov

Practice Mar 14 2024

The Security Jawbreaker

Access to a system should not imply authority to use it. Enter the principle of complete mediation.

Phil Vachon

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Opinion Mar 7 2024

Thoughts on AI Interoperability

While the core transport protocols of the Internet are binary in character, one could imagine a more text-oriented exchange protocol for inter-ML systems.

Vinton G. Cerf

Research and Advances Feb 14 2024

Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines

This paper discusses algorithmic priority inversion in mission-critical machine inference pipelines used in modern neural-network-based perception subsystems and…

Research and Advances Feb 14 2024

Technical Perspective: Bridging AI with Real-Time Systems

"Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines," by Shengzhong Liu et al., proposes a new methodology for overcoming the limitations of…

Giorgio Buttazzo

News Feb 8 2024

The State of the Metaverse

After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?

Esther Shein

BLOG@CACM Feb 1 2024

The Role of Autonomous Machine Computing in Shaping the Autonomy Economy

The role of Autonomous Machine Computing in fostering the Autonomy Economy.

Shaoshan Liu

News Jan 30 2024

Governments Are Spying on Your Push Notifications

Companies are being compelled to turn over potentially valuable push notification metadata to authorities.

Logan Kugler

Opinion Jan 10 2024

Protecting Life-Saving Medical Devices From Cyberattack

Alex Vakulov ponders how to protect the Internet of Medical Things.

Alex Vakulov

Research and Advances Jan 8 2024

On Specifying for Trustworthiness

As autonomous systems increasingly become part of our lives, it is crucial to foster trust between humans and these systems, to ensure positive outcomes and mitigate…

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Opinion Jan 8 2024

Achievement in Microarchitecture

David Papworth, a 30-year veteran of Intel, on what led to the P6 microprocessor and how that changed the microarchitectural paradigm.

Leah Hoffmann

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News Jan 8 2024

Epigenomics Now

Computer power helps biologists track the regulation of genetic information.

Don Monroe

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BLOG@CACM Jan 8 2024

Are You Confident in Your Backups?

Assessing data security.

Alex Vakulov

News Dec 14 2023

Tales of Topological Qubits

Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.

Chris Edwards

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Research and Advances Dec 13 2023

Maximum Flow Through a Network: A Storied Problem and a Groundbreaking Solution

“Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow,” by Li Chen et al., comes within striking distance of answering the question: “Does maximum…

Shang-Hua Teng

Research and Advances Dec 13 2023

Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow

We present an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with m edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and…

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