Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: Inside risks
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
On Digital Diplomacy
It is apparent that the world needs thoughtful and technically credible debate on alternatives for containing the problem of harmful behavior on the Internet.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Protecting Computers and People From Viruses
Robin K. Hill considers why the comparison of organic viruses and computer viruses is so compelling.COLUMN: News
Bouncing Balls and Quantum Computing
A lighthearted method for calculating π is analogous to a fundamental algorithm for quantum computing.Thwarting Side-Channel Attacks
Deep learning challenges chip security.Who Has Access to Your Smartphone Data?
ISPs, app developers, and even the government may know more about you than you think.Fran Allen: 1932-2020
Frances E. Allen was the first woman recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Self-Driving Vehicle Technology: Progress and Promises
Seeking the answer to the elusive question, 'Are we there yet'?COLUMN: Inside risks
A Holistic View of Future Risks
Almost everything is somehow interrelated with everything else—and that should not surprise us.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Sanity vs. Invisible Markings
Tabs vs. spacesCOLUMN: Viewpoint
We Need to Automate the Declaration of Conflicts of Interest
Leveraging existing data sources to improve the declaration and management of authorship conflicts of interest.Using Computer Programs and Search Problems for Teaching Theory of Computation
Recognizing the significance of a cornerstone of computer science.SECTION: Practice
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.SECTION: Contributed articles
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps?
The value of learning skillsets within a trio of disciplines and the role each plays in DevOps.Real Time Spent on Real Time
The story of the development of a sound, static method for worst-case execution-time analysis.SECTION: Review articles
Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies
Software weaknesses in cryptocurrencies create unique challenges in responsible revelations.A Decade of Social Bot Detection
Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection approach based on a static analysis.MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
We identify gas-focused vulnerabilities and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique that automatically detects gas-focused vulnerabilities with very high confidence.Technical Perspective: Two for the Price of One
"Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding" proves a remarkable connection between how efficiently computers can perform sorting and transmitting.Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding
In this paper, we present a tight conditional lower bound on the complexity of external memory sorting of integers.COLUMN: Last byte
