Corp to Cloud: Google’s Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
Systems and Networking
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Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
Software Challenges for the Changing Storage Landscape
Conventional storage software stacks are unable to meet the needs of high-performance Storage-Class Memory technology. It is time to rethink 50-year-old architectures.
Technical Perspective: Making Sleep Tracking More User Friendly
"LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study" provides a nice balance in terms of minimizing the burden on users and the granularity at which we can automatically track various measures of sleep.
LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study
We explore a new form of wearable systems, called LIBS, that can continuously record biosignals such as brain wave, eye movements, and facial muscle contractions, with high sensitivity and reliability.
Recruiting With Virtual Reality
As the market for new employees grows increasingly competitive, some recruiters use virtual reality applications to attract qualified candidates.
The notion of using implantable chips to authenticate people is gaining support, but it raises important privacy questions.
Detecting Mental Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify whether you suffer from a brain disorder.
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
Tech Gives Bike Riders Some Spin
Apps and connectivity have improved bicycles for serious and casual riders.
Artificial intelligence video system sends smartphone messages based on how you move.
Assessing the Impact of Cryptography on Internet Privacy
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on the relationship between cryptography and Internet privacy, and the impact the Turing Award has had on their lives, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
What Turing and Church Left Out
Concurrency control for readers and writers in a database is a classic problem that illustrates the power of message passing.
The Internet in the 21st Century
Many people are finding ways to do harmful things through the Internet medium. Responses to these abuses have been sporadic at best.
Hennessy and Patterson on the Roots of RISC
Awarding ACM's 2017 A.M. Turing Award to John Hennessy and David Patterson was richly deserved and long overdue. It would have been good if "Rewarded for RISC" (June 2018) had mentioned the contributions of John Cocke at IBM.
The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?
Transient Electronics Take Shape
Advances in materials science and chemistry are leading to self-destructing circuits and transient electronics, which could impact many fields.
The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code
Teach your junior programmers how to read code.
Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
The Productivity Paradox in Health Information Technology
New York State healthcare providers increased their use of the technology but delivered only mixed results for their patients.
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.
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