Systems and Networking – Page 47 – Communications of the ACM

Careers May 1 2020

Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy

Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on design in terms of functions, behaviors, and structures.

Arquimedes Canedo

Opinion May 1 2020

ACM Publications Finances

A detailed picture of financial information relating to ACM's publications revenues and expenses.

Jack W. Davidson, Joseph A. Konstan, and Scott E. Delman

News May 1 2020

A Proof from ‘The Book’

A decades-old conjecture about computational complexity is confirmed in just a few pages.

Don Monroe

News May 1 2020

Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?

The open instruction set for microprocessors promises to reshape computing and introduce new, more powerful capabilities.

Samuel Greengard

News May 1 2020

Deceiving the Masses on Social Media

The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Opinion May 1 2020

What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?

Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.

C. Scott Hemphill

Amazon, Google, and Facebook symbols, illustration

Opinion May 1 2020

Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice

Secure development is an important and pressing problem.

Adam Shostack and Mary Ellen Zurko

Opinion May 1 2020

Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do

The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.

Aaron Hertzmann

Practice May 1 2020

Revealing the Critical Role of Human Performance in Software

It's time to appreciate the human side of Internet-facing software systems.

David D. Woods and John Allspaw

Practice May 1 2020

Beyond the ‘Fix-It’ Treadmill

The use of post-incident artifacts in high-performing organizations.

J. Paul Reed

pages pinned to board and connected by string

Research and Advances May 1 2020

A Bibliometric Approach for Detecting the Gender Gap in Computer Science

Identifying female CS scientists by combining a robust bibliographic database and name filtering tools.

multicolor male and female figures, illustration

Research and Advances May 1 2020

Indistinguishability

Diverse examples depict how indistinguishability plays a central role in computer science.

Hagit Attiya and Sergio Rajsbaum

News Apr 30 2020

Power to the People

Artificial Intelligence software helps citizens end-run censors.

Joe Dysart

Using artificial intelligence software to overcome Internet censorship.

News Apr 28 2020

Commercial Quantum Computing Made Possible

Intel is chipping away at quantum computing with its Horse Ridge cryogenic control chip.

R. Colin Johnson

Intel's Horse ridge chip, on a printed circuit board.

News Apr 23 2020

AI for Drug Design

Artificial intelligence allows the screening of billions of molecules, until you find the one(s) you want.

Sandrine Ceurstemont

Machine learning can speed traditional drug development.

News Apr 16 2020

Algorithms in the Courtroom

The use of software to determine bail and sentencing terms has gone mainstream. How fair are these systems?

Samuel Greengard

A statue of Blind Justice in front of a display of code.

BLOG@CACM Apr 14 2020

Would There Be Computers Without Easter?

Finding roots of computing in the computation of Easter.

Herbert Bruderer

News Apr 9 2020

Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19

Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are aiding hospitals and healthcare experts in the battle against the coronavirus.

Samuel Greengard

A facility in Singapore using iThermo, an AI-powered solution that screens and identifies those having or showing symptoms of fever.

News Apr 7 2020

Keeping Students Educated and Engaged

The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Keith Kirkpatrick

A girl using a laptop to complete her schoolwork.

News Apr 2 2020

CNNs Catch Animals in the Wild

Researchers are using convolutional neural networks to identify the few frames of interest among massive amounts of visual information.

Sandrine Ceurstemont

Deep Meerkat identifies a fleeting image of a bird in the wild.

Opinion Apr 1 2020

Multisensory Adventures

Two books, one published to great acclaim and the other still in process, resonate with a visceral intensity for which I was honestly unprepared and surprised.

Vinton G. Cerf

News Apr 1 2020

Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey

Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.

Gregory Mone

Opinion Apr 1 2020

Reinventing Virtual Machines

The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.

Leah Hoffmann

News Apr 1 2020

How Universities Deploy Student Data

Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.

Esther Shein

Shape the Future of Computing

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.

Get Involved

Communications 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.

Learn More