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Research and Advances May 1 2022

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.

News May 1 2022

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.

Scott E. Delman

Research and Advances May 1 2022

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.

Daniel Lohmann

scissor cutting through lines of computer code

Research and Advances May 1 2022

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.

Emina Soljanin

servers on each end of an imbalanced seesaw

BLOG@CACM Apr 29 2022

Musk Buying Twitter Is Not About Freedom of Speech

It's about freedom to control speech.

Samuel Greengard

News Apr 28 2022

New Approaches to Biometric Security

The latest biometric security methods place a priority on contactless identification.

Jake Widman | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Apr 26 2022

Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net

The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Apr 21 2022

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.

Karen Emslie | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Samples of minerals containing rare earth elements.

News Apr 14 2022

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.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Apr 12 2022

The Failings of Machine Learning Models

Risk assessment, accountability, explainability, and bias, among other factors, challenge the success of machine learning.

Sarah Underwood | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Apr 7 2022

First, There Were Bug Bounties. Now, Here Come the Bias Bounties

Offering rewards for the identification of bias in algorithms.

Esther Shein | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Apr 5 2022

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.

David Geer | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Opinion Apr 1 2022

Preserving the Internet

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?

Vinton G. Cerf

News Apr 1 2022

Technology’s Impact on Morality

Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology's impact on our ethical thinking.

Logan Kugler

circuit electronics on a human head, illustration

News Apr 1 2022

Can AI Learn to Forget?

Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.

Samuel Greengard

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Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Welcome

The second Communications Regional Special Section spotlighting European countries and Israel highlights selected research and innovation projects in areas of traditional European CS strengths.

Jessica R. Cauchard, Matthias Jarke, and Nuria Oliver

images from April 2022 CACM Europe Region Special Section

Opinion Apr 1 2022

Systems Abstractions

Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.

Peter J. Denning

Opinion Apr 1 2022

Getting Off the Mad Path

Debuggers and assertions.

George V. Neville-Neil

man at laptop computer sits on a giant bug, illustration

Opinion Apr 1 2022

Communications’ Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event

How AI and science are shaping each other.

Andrew A. Chien

people icons with speech bubbles, illustration

Opinion Apr 1 2022

Explainable AI

Opening the black box or Pandora's Box?

Veda C. Storey, Roman Lukyanenko, Wolfgang Maass, and Jeffrey Parsons

Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Robotic Process Automation Platform UiPath

The UiPath platform provides core capabilities that make it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans' interactions with information systems to perform certain tasks in business processes.

Liliana Dobrica

Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

On-Skin Computing

A new generation of wearable devices, so-called epidermal devices modeled after human skin, promises significantly better compatibility with the human body.

Jürgen Steimle

Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Internet of Production: Entering Phase Two of Industry 4.0

The Excellence Cluster "Internet of Production," started in 2019, aims at a new level of digital collaboration with data, models, and knowledge in production. The core idea is establishing a "worldwide lab" for cross-domain learning.

Gertrude Kappel, Christian Brecher, Matthias Brockmann, and István Koren

Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Toward a Broad AI

AI research and machine learning in particular aims at a new level of AI with considerably enhanced and broader capabilities for skill acquisition and problem solving.

Sepp Hochreiter

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