Communications of the ACM
COLUMN: Inside risks
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Inside risks
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
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COLUMN: Last byte
Session details: Inside risks
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Celebrating Excellence
ACM's most prestigious recognition is the ACM A.M. Turing Award and the 2017 award goes to John Hennessy and David Patterson: "For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
When to Hold 'Em
"Always Out of Balance" (April 2018) overstated (somewhat) the effect of intractability by claiming the intractability of computing Nash equilibrium necessitates researchers abandon this notion in favor of other competition-related …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Programming Programming Languages, and Analyzing Facebook's Failure
Mark Guzdial considers an idea with significant educational implications, while Susan Landau looks into the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal.COLUMN: News
Rewarded for RISC
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients David Patterson and John Hennessy developed the "dangerous" idea that software should be simpler so it can be executed more quickly, which evolved into the Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture …Deep Learning Hunts for Signals Among the Noise
Neural networks can deliver surprising, and sometimes unwanted, results.3D Sensors Provide Security, Better Games
A variety of techniques allow sensors to locate and recognize objects in space.Getting Hooked on Tech
Are technology companies maximizing profits by making users addicted to their products?COLUMN: Inside risks
Risks of Cryptocurrencies
Considering the inherent risks of cryptocurrency ecosystems.COLUMN: The profession of IT
An Interview with Dave Parnas
A discussion of ideas about software engineering.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Watchdogs vs. Snowflakes
Taking wild guesses.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Effectiveness of Anonymization in Double-Blind Review
Assessing the effectiveness of anonymization in the review process.SECTION: Practice
Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.Documentation Is Automation
A.B.A. = Always be automating.SECTION: Contributed articles
Bias on the Web
Bias in Web data and use taints the algorithms behind Web-based applications, delivering equally biased results.Ability-Based Design
By focusing on users' abilities rather than disabilities, designers can create interactive systems better matched to those abilities.Identifying Patterns in Medical Records through Latent Semantic Analysis
Text analysis can reveal patterns of association among medical terms and medical codes.SECTION: Review articles
Privacy in Decentralized Cryptocurrencies
When it comes to anonymizing cryptocurrencies, one size most definitely does not fit all.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Measuring Optimization Potential with Coz
In "Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling," Curtsinger and Berger describe causal profiling, which tell programmers exactly how much speed-up bang to expect for their optimization buck.Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling
This paper introduces causal profiling. Unlike past profiling approaches, causal profiling indicates exactly where programmers should focus their optimization efforts, and quantifies their potential impact.COLUMN: Last byte
