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BLOG@CACM Jan 11 2021

Project Managers Shouldn’t Trust Their Programmers. Do This Instead

Don't simply trust and pay your programmers. Why? Because you may end up losing. Instead, you need to validate and review the work performed. Doing so set you up for winning. Here's why.

Yegor Bugayenko

News Jan 7 2021

Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course

The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?

John Delaney | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Jan 5 2021

Digital IDs Make Their Mark

Encrypted identification data on a smartcard or smartphone can deliver significant benefits while boosting security, but raise concerns about privacy and the potential for abuse.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems

The virtualization of conferences due to COVID-19 has sharpened my conviction that the computing-research publication system is badly broken and in need of a serious reboot.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Technical Perspective: SkyCore’s Architecture Takes It to the ‘Edge’

"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular network, flying to areas in the network in order to improve wireless connectivity.

Richard Han

News Jan 1 2021

Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19

Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.

Chris Edwards

four individuals and a hand holding a mobile phone, illustration

News Jan 1 2021

Fugaku Takes the Lead

Japan tops the Top500 supercomputer rankings, for the moment.

Don Monroe

Fugaku at Riken Center for Computational Science

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Cybersecurity Research for the Future

Considering the wide range of technological and societal trade-offs associated with cybersecurity.

Terry Benzel

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Content Moderation Modulation

Deliberating on how to regulate—or not regulate—online speech in the era of evolving social media.

Kate Klonick

user and strident speakers, illustration

Opinion Jan 1 2021

The Immortal Soul of an Old Machine

Taking apart a book to figure out how it works.

Thomas Haigh

The Soul of a New Machine, stylized cover image

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Insights for AI from the Human Mind

How the cognitive sciences can inform the quest to build systems with the flexibility of the human mind.

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

neurons and lighted background, illustration

Practice Jan 1 2021

The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

Edlyn V. Levine

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

How to Transition Incrementally to Microservice Architecture

A field study examines technological advances that have created versatile software ecosystems to develop and deploy microservices.

Karoly Bozan, Kalle Lyytinen, and Gregory M. Rose

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes?

Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.

José González Cabañas, Àngel Cuevas, Aritz Arrate, and Ruben Cuevas

mobile phone users and a megaphone with Facebook icon, illustration

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Secure Multiparty Computation

MPC has moved from theoretical study to real-world usage. How is it doing?

Yehuda Lindell

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car

Are U.S. government employees behaving ethically when they stockpile software vulnerabilities?

Stephen B. Wicker

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks

We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core network.

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes

In this paper, we study the asymptotic scaling of the space overhead needed for fault-tolerant quantum computation.

Omar Fawzi, Antoine Grospellier, and Anthony Leverrier

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Technical Perspective: Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation

In "Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes," by Omar Fawzi, et al., the authors produce an algorithm that can rapidly deduce the error in a quantum expander code, even when the syndrome is partially incorrect.

Daniel Gottesman

News Dec 22 2020

A Touch of Reality

The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Concept rendering of HaptX’s full-body haptics system.

News Dec 17 2020

Keeping It Local

A breakthrough in energy-efficient artificial intelligence.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Dec 15 2020

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.

Esther Shein | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Surgeons at Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool, U.K., have been using Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology in its operating theaters for more than two years.

BLOG@CACM Dec 11 2020

The Year-Round Joys and Benefits of Open Source Software

One of the things that makes us programmers feel warm and fuzzy is open source software. Companies support open source too. Why give something away for free? A lot of individuals contribute open source code out of a genuine sense of altruism. Yet when it comes to companies, it’s often a strategic choice, and one they expect to benefit from. Let's review how companies benefit from open source.

Yegor Bugayenko

News Dec 10 2020

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.

Keith Kirkpatrick | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Using contactless payment in a retail environment.

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