Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
Systems and Networking
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Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Explorations in CPS education and related research projects over the past two decades unveil where CPS learning is headed.
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century
To understand automation and the future of work, this study explores how human labor competes, or cooperates, with technology in performing a range of tasks.
The Go Programming Language and Environment
Released as open source in November 2009, Go has become the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider. Its creators look back on how Go got here and why it has stuck around.
Thanks for the Progress to Date!
Nearly 200 research institutions have signed on to ACM Open, and the Association is fast approaching the first major milestone for the transition to an Open Access Publisher.
Technical Perspective: ‘What Is the Ideal Operating System?’
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
Technical Perspective: Balancing At All Loads
"Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication" addresses the problem of selecting code rates to optimize system performance by making the codes rateless.
New Approaches to Biometric Security
The latest biometric security methods place a priority on contactless identification.
Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
Rethinking Rare Earth Elements
Researchers are looking to untapped sources—from fertilizer waste to printed circuit boards—to solve the environmental and supply chain problems of rare earth elements.
Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
While these breakthroughs must be considered proofs of concept, they demonstrate the pieces of future quantum datacenters are coming together, says independent analyst Bob Sorensen.
The Failings of Machine Learning Models
Risk assessment, accountability, explainability, and bias, among other factors, challenge the success of machine learning.
First, There Were Bug Bounties. Now, Here Come the Bias Bounties
Offering rewards for the identification of bias in algorithms.
BlackByte Ransomware Bites Critical Infrastructure, the San Francisco 49ers
One ransomware attack struck a professional football team as competitors were preparing for the Super Bowl.
The Internet is equally available for beneficial and harmful purposes as is often the case with infrastructure open to public use. How can we preserve its beneficial uses and diminish unwanted harmful abuse?
Technology’s Impact on Morality
Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology's impact on our ethical thinking.
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
The second Communications Regional Special Section spotlighting European countries and Israel highlights selected research and innovation projects in areas of traditional European CS strengths.
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
Shape the Future of Computing
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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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