Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: Privacy and security
COLUMN: Kode vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
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.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
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. …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Can We Use AI for Global Good?
Amir Banifatemi observes how the AI for Good Summit "allowed us to start a dialogue, find a common frame of reference, and decide how our steps would be smart and structured."COLUMN: News
Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays
In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.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 Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
The Business of Quantum Computing
Considering the similarities of quantum computing development to the early years of conventional computing.COLUMN: Privacy and security
A Pedagogic Cybersecurity Framework
A proposal for teaching the organizational, legal, and international aspects of cybersecurity.COLUMN: Kode vicious
The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code
Teach your junior programmers how to read code.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Building the Universal Archive of Source Code
A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.Are CS Conferences (Too) Closed Communities?
Assessing whether newcomers have a more difficult time achieving paper acceptance at established conferences.SECTION: Practice
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role
The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.SECTION: Contributed articles
Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?
What just happened in artificial intelligence and how it is being misunderstood.Formally Verified Software in the Real World
Verified software secures the Unmanned Little Bird autonomous helicopter against mid-flight cyber attacks.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.SECTION: Review articles
Computing Within Limits
The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A Control Theorist's View on Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones
"Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones" introduces the notion of "reactive control" in which an autopilot's control logic is run only intermittently based on whether readings from sensors indicate a need …Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones
We conceive a notion of reactive control that allows drones to execute the low-level control logic only upon recognizing the need to, based on the influence of the environment onto the drone operation.Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI
"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized.Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided
In this work, we design and develop bufferless protocols that demonstrate how to implement the MPI-3 RMA interface and support scaling to millions of cores.COLUMN: Last byte
