Rethinking Search Engines and Recommendation Systems: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Novel approaches draw on the strength of game theoretic mechanism design.
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Technical Perspective: Bootstrapping a Future of Open Source, Specialized Hardware
OpenPiton research is one of the watershed moments in the fundamental shift toward the construction of an open source ecosystem for implementing prototype chips.
OpenPiton: An Open Source Hardware Platform For Your Research
We present OpenPiton, an open source framework for building scalable architecture research prototypes from one core to 500 million cores.
In a career launched by groundbreaking research, Garth Gibson continues to shepherd technological advances "from blackboard through standards and to commercial reality."
Welcome to the India Region Special Section
The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.
Turbocharging Database Query Processing and Testing
Query processing and optimization are implemented in all contemporary database systems. Indian universities have played a visible role in addressing important, unsolved issues.
Digital Transformation in the Indian Government
The Digital India program is centered on the vision of offering digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, providing services and enabling the digital empowerment of citizens.
CSpathshala: Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools
Some 300,000 students from 750 schools in 11 states throughout India are learning computing through "unplugged" activities as part of CSpathshala, ACM India's education initiative.
Technology Interventions for Road Safety and Beyond
Inadequate road infrastructure, increasing vehicle population, and poor driver training make a chaotic and often deadly mix in India. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies may improve the situation.
Computing Research at Tata Consultancy Services
Research and innovation have played a unique role in Tata Consultancy Services' journey from a computing division to its current place in global technology consulting.
Creative Disruption in Fintech from Sri Lanka
The farsighted entry into financial technology, and experience in mobilizing local talent, contributed to the early success of MillenniumIT.
Aspiring Minds has developed a scalable platform to test the job skills of millions of graduates entering the labor market in India every year.
Designing ICT Interventions for Women in Pakistan
In order to ensure entire populations benefit from the deployment and adoption of ICTs an understanding of the specific needs and challenges faced by women is imperative.
What if you had the superpower to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds, a multiple-choice question with a billion choices? The objective in extreme classification is to develop algorithms with such capabilities.
Speech and natural language processing of Indic languages is hugely important and relevant in India, where approximately 420-440 languages are in active use.
The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media in India
Online social media services have had a profound impact in India, increasing digital literacy, disseminating more local language content, and more. The services have had negative effects as well.
The Rise of the Indian Start-Up Ecosystem
The rise of the Indian start-up ecosystem can be characterized by three major changes over the last decade that offer interesting insights for the start-up ecosystem in India and across the world.
India Stack – Digital Infrastructure as Public Good
Digital inclusion in India has taken off in a significant way in the last few years. The country is young, ambitious, and connected.
Research in Theoretical Computer Science
Indian undergraduate programs in computing date back to the early 1980s — a time that also saw the first generation of graduate students from India taking up theoretical computer science.
The Growth and Evolution of India’s Software Industry
The Indian software industry has matured from providing cost-effective back office support to driving the digital transformation of global companies.
Researchers and practitioners have used interactive voice response technology to create voice-based services that have found application in India's marginalized communities.
Highlights of Software R&D in India
India's achievement as a software superpower rests on decades of work spanning software processes, rigorous engineering, value-adding technologies, and other factors.
The debate engendered by the Aadhaar project has propelled India from being a predominantly pre-privacy society to one in which privacy protection in digital databases has emerged as a major national concern.
Technical Perspective: A Whitebox Solution for Blackbox-Like Behaviors
DeepXplore brings a software testing perspective to deep neural networks and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for enormous amounts of follow-on work in several ways.
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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