Systems and Networking – Page 26 – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Dec 1 2021

Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities

Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.

Ranveer Chandra and Stewart Collis

Research and Advances Dec 1 2021

AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease

3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.

open hand under human heart, illustration

Research and Advances Dec 1 2021

Datasheets for Datasets

Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.

individuals moving word blocks, illustration

Opinion Dec 1 2021

Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing

ACM Computing Prize recipient Scott Aaronson discusses his work in quantum complexity.

Leah Hoffmann

Opinion Dec 1 2021

Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?

The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.

Andrew A. Chien

Opinion Dec 1 2021

On Heterogeneous Computing

Computing is an endless frontier in which we have an unending supply of new problems to confront in the search for new solutions.

Vinton G. Cerf

Dec 1 2021

Seeking Out Camille, and Being Open to Others

Robin K. Hill on overcoming biases against alternative views, and Carlos Baquero on his search for the elusive Camille Noûs.

Robin K. Hill and Carlos Baquero

News Dec 1 2021

Trouble at the Source

Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.

Don Monroe

light emanating from a chip, illustration

News Dec 1 2021

What Is the Cost of Living Online?

The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."

Samuel Greengard

News Dec 1 2021

The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality

A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.

Keith Kirkpatrick

automotive head-up display, illustration

Opinion Dec 1 2021

‘In Situ’ Data Rights

Improving on data portability.

Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Georgios Petropoulos, Geoffrey Parker, and Bertin Martens

Opinion Dec 1 2021

Accelerator-Level Parallelism

Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.

Mark D. Hill and Vijay Janapa Reddi

News Nov 23 2021

Can a Free Internet Survive?

Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Artist's representation of protests against restrictions on Internet freedom.

BLOG@CACM Nov 22 2021

Publishing, The Choice and The Luck

Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.

Carlos Baquero

News Nov 18 2021

Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started

When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.

Arnout Jaspers | Commissioned by CACM Staff

A smartphone whose screen indicates something severe is happening.

BLOG@CACM Nov 18 2021

How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website

We can control our online ecological impact.

Alex Husar

BLOG@CACM Nov 12 2021

What Should be Done About Facebook?

The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social media, including disinformation, misinformation, hate speech, depression, and more. There's been a lot of talk about regulators stepping in. What kinds of questions, insights, or advice might our community offer these regulators?

Jason Hong

News Nov 11 2021

Making Sense With Biology

Hybrid systems enhance the capabilities of electronics with biologics.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Melanie Anderson, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, holding the Smellicopter.

Nov 1 2021

Assessing Internet Software Engineering, Encouraging Competitions

Andrei Sukhov considers the potential for reducing international tensions through competitive events, while Vivek S. Buzruk looks at the evolution of teaching Internet software engineering.

Andrei Sukhov and Vivek S. Buzruk

News Nov 1 2021

Filtering for Beauty

Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.

Esther Shein

News Nov 1 2021

Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality

Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.

Samuel Greengard

News Nov 1 2021

Holograms on the Horizon?

Machine learning drives toward 3D imaging on the move.

Chris Edwards

globe and light shining from display screen, illustration

Opinion Nov 1 2021

Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?

How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.

Pamela Samuelson

mining pick and binary code, illustration

Opinion Nov 1 2021

Privacy Engineering Superheroes

Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.

Lea Kissner and Lorrie Cranor

superhero with hands around security icon, illustration

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