Smarter Voice Assistants Recognize Your Favorite Brands—and Health
People often surrender their data privacy to their continuously listening voice assistants without understanding the implications.
Systems and Networking
Advertisement
Overcoming AI Bias with AI Fairness
New tools aim to remove unconscious and other types of bias from algorithms.
The Drive Toward Self-Driving Food Delivery Vehicles
Are pizza delivery guys destined to be so 20th century?
Uncertainty in Current and Future Health Wearables
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Search-based Program Synthesis
A promising, useful tool for future programming development environments.
How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure
We propose a method called Node Replication (NR) to implement any concurrent data structure.
Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly
WebAssembly is the first mainstream language designed from the start with a formal semantics. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying formal techniques, but also that they lead to a remarkably clean and simple design.
Promoting Common Sense, Reality, Dependable Engineering
Peter G. Neumann traces a lifetime devoted to identifying computing risks.
Technical Perspective: WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution of the Web
"Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly," by Rossberg et al., gives an overview of the initial design of WebAssembly, a new low-level programming language for Web-based software.
Technical Perspective: Node Replication Divides to Conquer
In "How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure," Calciu et al. show that a concurrent data structure can be built automatically and that its performance is actually competitive with state-of-the-art designs for a series of important workloads.
Securing Agent 111, and the Job of Software Architect
John Arquilla describes the new state of cyberspying, while Yegor Bugayenko considers the importance of a software architect to development projects.
Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction
Seeking to address a wider range of user requests toward task completion.
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
A Century-Long Commitment to Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Society
A series of reports promises the general public a technologically accurate view of the state of AI and its societal implications.
Citizen-led initiatives via social media yield political influence, including even with a country's top political leaders.
VR could significantly change the way jurors and judges weigh evidence in the courtroom.
D-Wave offers access to a cloud-based quantum application environment.
IBM Boasts Single-Atom Two-Bit Memory
This accomplishment will feed research on developing atomic-scale devices for storing digital bits, and the storage of quantum bits in the magnetic spin of atomic nuclei.
The Upper Layers of the Internet
The Internet Protocol layer does not know or care what it carries in its payloads except that they are made up of binary bits. Above the application layer, however, the meaning of the content becomes important.
Self-Reference and Section 230
The explosive growth of social-media platforms has led to the proliferation of "bad" speech on social-media platforms, which has become politically untenable.
The Gap in CS, Mulling Irrational Exuberance
Carl Hewitt suggests computer science needs a reference resource, while Vijay Kumar decries intellectual dishonesty in technology forecasting.
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 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.
Learn More