Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Global computing
COLUMN: Inside risks
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
ACM Awards Honor CS Contributions
The Turing Award is one of a suite of professional honors ACM bestows annually to recognize technical achievements that have made significant contributions to our field.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Back to the Future
We have come a long way since the 1983 activation of the Internet and there is strong evidence that further evolution is to be expected as new technologies arrive to spark imagination and challenge engineers to improve on the …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Is CS Really for All, and Defending Democracy in Cyberspace
Mark Guzdial mulls the difficulty of getting into a computer science class, while John Arquilla ponders political warfare in cyberspace.COLUMN: News
Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.Lifelong Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
New methods enable systems to rapidly, continuously adapt.And Then, There Were Three
How long can the silicon foundry sector continue to adapt, as physical limits make further shrinkage virtually impossible?Ethics in Technology Jobs
Employees are increasingly challenging technology companies on their ethical choices.COLUMN: Global computing
Global Data Justice
A new research challenge for computer science.COLUMN: Inside risks
Through Computer Architecture, Darkly
Total-system hardware and microarchitectural issues are becoming increasingly critical.COLUMN: The profession of IT
An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency
Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Personal Data and the Internet of Things
It is time to care about digital provenance.SECTION: Practice
Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture
A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters)
Build safety, share vulnerability, and establish purpose.Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship
Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.SECTION: Contributed articles
Programmable Solid-State Storage in Future Cloud Datacenters
Programmable software-defined solid-state drives can move computing functions closer to storage.Engineering Trustworthy Systems: A Principled Approach to Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity design reduces the risk of system failure from cyberattack, aiming to maximize mission effectiveness.SECTION: Review articles
The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence
To trust the behavior of complex AI algorithms, especially in mission-critical settings, they must be made intelligible.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Back to the Edge
"Heterogeneous Von Neumann/Dataflow Microprocessors" describes an innovative approach to exploit both CDFG and EDGE computation models.Heterogeneous Von Neumann/Dataflow Microprocessors
This work studies the potential of a paradigm of heterogeneous execution models by developing a specialization engine for explicit-dataflow (SEED) and integrating it with a standard out-of-order (OOO) core.COLUMN: Last byte
