Opinion Editor's letter
To fulfill its responsibility as the world's preeminent computing professional society, the ACM must transform itself to lead.
May 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 5
Features
Opinion Departments
The West has responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with punitive economic sanctions. In one fell swoop, the efficient, (almost) unified world of global technology has come apart.
Careers Career paths in computing
How a Shopping Mall Trip Inspired Me to Work in Neuro-Symbolic AI
I'll never forget the time — at just six years of age — when my father showed me a toy robot holding a tray and told me that very soon there will be actual robot helpers in our home working for us.
News ACM Open
Thanks for the Progress to Date!
Nearly 200 research institutions have signed on to ACM Open, and the Association is fast approaching the first major milestone for the transition to an Open Access Publisher.
News ACM's election
ACM’s 2022 General Election: Please take this opportunity to vote
Meet the candidates who introduce their plans — and stands — for the Association.
BLOG@CACM
Modern Tech Can’t Shield Your Secret Identity
Jason Hong considers how modern computing technologies would undermine superheroes' anonymity.
Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations
Physics-informed machine learning is gaining attention, but suffers from training issues.
New systems can model and synthesize voices, and even translate them into other languages.
Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health
How AI can be used to improve diagnosis of mental health conditions.
Opinion Law and Technology
Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
Opinion Security
Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
Opinion Education
Toward Justice in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship
Proposing a justice-centered CS education.
Opinion Viewpoint
Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Explorations in CPS education and related research projects over the past two decades unveil where CPS learning is headed.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
The Go Programming Language and Environment
Released as open source in November 2009, Go has become the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider. Its creators look back on how Go got here and why it has stuck around.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century
To understand automation and the future of work, this study explores how human labor competes, or cooperates, with technology in performing a range of tasks.
Research and Advances Review articles
Artificial Intelligence for Synthetic Biology
The opportunities and challenges of adapting and applying AI principles to synbio.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: ‘What Is the Ideal Operating System?’
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
Research and Advances Research highlights
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Balancing At All Loads
"Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication" addresses the problem of selecting code rates to optimize system performance by making the codes rateless.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication
We propose a rateless fountain coding strategy and prove that its latency is asymptotically equal to ideal load balancing, and it performs asymptotically zero redundant computations.
Opinion Last byte
FBI agents Saskia Lipcott and Dinah Carter have one last chance to evade Dupin's corrupt AI.
