Communications of the ACM
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DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
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COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: Global computing
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SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
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Incentivizing Reproducibility
It is rare for research studies in computing to be reproduced. This seems odd, since we have an advantage over science done in wet labs. There is no reason for us not to be leaders in practices that enable audit and reuse when …'We're Going Backward!'
The Greeks and the Romans carved letters in stone and these are still eminently readable over 2,000 years later. Newer media have not been around as long but I think it is arguable that the more recent media do not have the resilience …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Adding Art to STEM
Perry R. Cook considers the career path that led him to STEAM.COLUMN: News
Optical Fibers Getting Full
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.Bringing Holography to Light
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical imaging.Battling Algorithmic Bias
How do we ensure algorithms treat us fairly?COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
The Puzzle of Japanese Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Exploring how Japan's unique mixture of social, educational, and corporate practices influence entrepreneurial activity.COLUMN: Global computing
Mobile Computing and Political Transformation
Connecting increased mobile phone usage with political and market liberalization.COLUMN: Kode vicious
Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.COLUMN: Inside risks
Risks of Automation: A Cautionary Total-System Perspective of Our Cyberfuture
Where automation is inevitable, let's do it right.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.SECTION: Practice
Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.Fresh Starts
Just because you have been doing it the same way doesn't mean you are doing it the right way.Dynamics of Change: Why Reactivity Matters
Tame the dynamics of change by centralizing each concern in its own module.SECTION: Contributed articles
Rethinking Security For Internet Routing
Combine simple whitelisting technology, notably prefix filtering, in most BGP-speaking routers with weaker cryptographic protocols.Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers
The most important consideration is how the collection of measurements may affect a person's well-being.SECTION: Review articles
A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security
With the implantation of software-driven devices comes unique privacy and security threats to the human body.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Naiad
"Incremental, Iterative Data Processing with Timely Dataflow" describes Naiad, which combines three classes of dataflow systems, supporting high-throughput batch processing queries, low-latency data stream queries, and iterative …Incremental, Iterative Data Processing with Timely Dataflow
We describe the timely dataflow model for distributed computation and its implementation in the Naiad system.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 parallelized by taking advantage of the algebraic properties of the underlying …Efficient Parallelization Using Rank Convergence in Dynamic Programming Algorithms
This paper proposes an efficient parallel algorithm for an important class of dynamic programming problems that includes Viterbi, Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman, and Longest Common Subsequence.COLUMN: Last byte
