I became Editor-in-Chief of Communications of the ACM to make the magazine again the forum where the computer science community shares its most important results.
James Larus
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Regulating Automated Decision Making
A group assembled by Informatics Europe and the policy committee of the ACM Europe Council produced a report entitled "When Computers Decide" that makes 10…
Technical Perspective: A Simple, Elegant Approach to Non-Numeric Parallelization
"Automatically Accelerating Non-Numerical Programs by Architecture-Compiler Co-Design," by Simone Campanoni, et al., proposes a modest hardware extension to…
A Reconfigurable Fabric For Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
We describe a medium-scale deployment of a composable, reconfigurable hardware fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and measure its effectiveness in accelerating the ranking…
Technical Perspective: The Power of Parallelizing Computations
"Efficient Parallelization Using Rank Convergence in Dynamic Programming Algorithms" shows how some instances of dynamic programming can be effectively…
Technical Perspective: Programming Multicore Computers
"Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications" advocates an appealing division of labor between a developer…
Safe, modern programming languages let Microsoft rethink the architectural trade-offs in its experimental operating system.
Multicore computers shift the burden of software performance from chip designers and to software developers. Now the computing industry is challenged to …
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