How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated
John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.
Systems and Networking
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Chips designed specifically to model the neurons and synapses in the human brain are poised to change computing in profound ways.
Digital Humans on the Big Screen
Motion pictures are using new techniques in computer-generated imagery to create feature-length performances by convincingly "de-aged" actors.
Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging
A discussion with Robert O'Callahan, Kyle Huey, Devon O'Dell, and Terry Coatta.
Digital Creativity Support for Original Journalism
A tool that helps journalists discover new story angles by offering insight not search results.
Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences
Fully appreciating the overarching scope of CS requires weaving more than ethics into the reigning curricula.
Threats of a Replication Crisis in Empirical Computer Science
Research replication only works if there is confidence built into the results.
Technical Perspective: Supporting Linear Algebra Operations in SQL
Do we need a completely new database system to support machine learning?
Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System
We show that by making just a few changes to a parallel/distributed relational database system, such a system can become a competitive platform for scalable linear algebra.
A Speed Bump on the Road to 5G?
The impact of the coronavirus lockdown on the buildout of 5G networks appears to have been minimal.
The Impact of AI on Organizations
Implementing artificial intelligence through the looking glass of digital anthropology.
Supporting staffers working from home adds another layer to the stress many IT professionals already were feeling.
3D Printing Takes Shape During the Pandemic
Three-dimensional printing is transforming medicine during the coronavirus pandemic.
Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet
Harvard University researchers achieve “a milestone along the path to a worldwide quantum Internet.”
Pandemic Makes Modeling’s Importance Clear
The number of COVID-19 models was growing so numerous that one laboratory created a COVID-19 forecasting hub featuring an ensemble output of numerous models.
Technical Perspective: ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter
Can we build purpose-built, warehouse-scale datacenters customized for large-scale arrays of ASIC accelerators or, to use a term coined in the paper by Michael Bedford Taylor, et al., ASIC clouds?
A Computational Lens on Economics
Our digital infrastructure, which has become a key component of the economic system in developed countries, is one of the few components that did not buckle under the stress of COVID-19.
Shape the Future of Computing
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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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