Communications of the ACM
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SECTION: China region
SECTION: China Region Special Section: Hot Topics
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SECTION: Contributed articles
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The Upper Layers of the Internet
The Internet Protocol layer does not know or care what it carries in its payloads except that they are made up of binary bits. Above the application layer, however, the meaning of the content becomes important.DEPARTMENT: Departments
Self-Reference and Section 230
The explosive growth of social-media platforms has led to the proliferation of "bad" speech on social-media platforms, which has become politically untenable.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
The Gap in CS, Mulling Irrational Exuberance
Carl Hewitt suggests computer science needs a reference resource, while Vijay Kumar decries intellectual dishonesty in technology forecasting.COLUMN: News
AI, Explain Yourself
It is increasingly important to understand how artificial intelligence comes to a decision.A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.Weighing the Impact of GDPR
The EU data regulation will affect computer, Internet, and technology usage within and outside the EU; how it will play out remains to be seen.COLUMN: Legally speaking
The EU's Controversial Digital Single Market Directive
Should copyright enforcement have precedence over the interests of users in information privacy and fundamental freedoms?COLUMN: Inside risks
The Big Picture
A systems-oriented view of trustworthiness.COLUMN: Education
How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum
The growing importance of machine learning creates challenging questions for computing education.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Using Any Surface to Realize a New Paradigm for Wireless Communications
Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.Crude and Rude?
Old ways in the new oil business.SECTION: China region
Introducing Communications' Regional Special Sections
I am pleased to introduce the first regional special section of Communications, which we hope will become a feature that you anticipate and enjoy, and of course value for the insights and perspectives it presents!SECTION: China Region Special Section: Hot Topics
Welcome to the China Region Special Section
We are pleased to present the China Region special section.China's Computing Ambitions
China plans to become the world's high-tech leader, and quickly.Quantum Communication at 7,600km and Beyond
There are two major challenges to achieving secure quantum cryptography over long distances.The Future of Artificial Intelligence in China
In addition to government-supported academic research, China's technical giants, such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei, are actively investing in AI research and related development.Consumers, Corporations, and Government: Computing in China
Unique historical, socioeconomic, and political conditions have created a distinctive path for China's rapid integration of computing and technology into its economy and society.Regional Computing Culture and Personalities
Despite China's massive market and bountiful opportunities for computing careers, Chinese corporations face great obstacles in attracting high-tech talent.Can China Lead the Development of Data Trading and Sharing Markets?
A survey of China's data trading and sharing markets.Exploiting Psychology and Social Behavior for Game Stickiness
Interactive video games, which support various forms of collaboration and confrontation among gamers, create an obsessive stickiness.SECTION: China Region Special Section: Big Trends
People Logistics in Smart Cities
Governments have been searching for new technologies to make cities in China more efficient, and smart mobility has been the top priority in all solutions.Cloud Bursting for the World's Largest Consumer Market
The development and popularization of cloud computing, especially in emerging domains, brings great convenience and also poses new challenges.Fintech: AI Powers Financial Services to Improve People's Lives
Financial technology, or fintech, is a fast-evolving field that has reshaped the financial industry.Is Last-Mile Delivery a 'Killer App' for Self-Driving Vehicles?
There are two dimensions of challenge to an efficient autonomous delivery vehicle solution.Video Consumption, Social Networking, and Influence
China's online video industry has as many similarities as differences with the U.S.Will Supercomputers Be Super-Data and Super-AI Machines?
New challenges in architecture, system software, and application technologies must be addressed to help develop next-generation exascale supercomputing systems.SECTION: Practice
Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.SECTION: Contributed articles
Skill Discovery in Virtual Assistants
Skill recommendations must be provided when users need them most, without being obtrusive or distracting.A Look at the Design of Lua
Simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability set Lua apart from other scripting languages.Modern Debugging: The Art of Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Systematic use of proven debugging approaches and tools lets programmers address even apparently intractable bugs.SECTION: Review articles
Software Challenges for the Changing Storage Landscape
Conventional storage software stacks are unable to meet the needs of high-performance Storage-Class Memory technology. It is time to rethink 50-year-old architectures.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Backdoor Engineering
"Where Did I Leave My Keys?" by Checkoway et al. reports on the amazing independent reconstruction of a backdoor, discovered in the firmware of a VPN router commonly used to secure access to corporate intranets.Where Did I Leave My Keys?: Lessons from the Juniper Dual EC Incident
In this paper, we describe the results of a full independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness and VPN key establishment protocol subsystems, which we carried out in response to the Juniper Dual Elliptic Curve incident.Technical Perspective: Making Sleep Tracking More User Friendly
"LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study" provides a nice balance in terms of minimizing the burden on users and the granularity at which we can automatically track various measures …LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study
We explore a new form of wearable systems, called LIBS, that can continuously record biosignals such as brain wave, eye movements, and facial muscle contractions, with high sensitivity and reliability.COLUMN: Last byte
