Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Departments
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: Computing ethics
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
A Computational Lens on Economics
Our digital infrastructure, which has become a key component of the economic system in developed countries, is one of the few components that did not buckle under the stress of COVID-19.Challenge Yourself by Reaching for the Highest Bar
"Challenge yourself and reach for the highest bar. If you succeed, keep pushing the boundaries," my friend advised when I started my career at IBM Research. These words have been a guiding force in my career ever since.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Computing's Role in Climate Warming
As a computer scientist, I was embarrassed to read the Viewpoint "Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon" (March 2020) from four fellow computer scientists.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Transitioning to Distance Learning and Virtual Conferencing
John Arquilla considers responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, while Mark Guzdial ponders the impacts of competitive enrollment.COLUMN: News
The Quantum Threat
Cryptographers are developing algorithms to ensure security in a world of quantum computing.Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.Reducing and Eliminating E-Waste
We need to mitigate the environmental impact of disposing of electronics at their end of useful life.COLUMN: Legally speaking
AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media
Guaranteeing truth in advertising.COLUMN: Computing ethics
For Impactful Community Engagement: Check Your Role
Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Consumers vs. Citizens in Democracy's Public Sphere
Attempting to balance the challenging trade-offs between individual rights and our obligations to one another.Call For a Wake Standard for Artificial Intelligence
Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.SECTION: Practice
The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.Demystifying Stablecoins
Cryptography meets monetary policy.SECTION: Contributed articles
Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators
DSAs gain efficiency from specialization and performance from parallelism.The Data Science Life Cycle: A Disciplined Approach to Advancing Data Science as a Science
A cycle that traces ways to define the landscape of data science.A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks
Google's TPU supercomputers train deep neural networks 50x faster than general-purpose supercomputers running a high-performance computing benchmark.SECTION: Review articles
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Blockchain technology can shape innovation and competition in digital platforms, but under what conditions?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Why 'Correct' Computers Can Leak Your Information
"Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution," by Paul Kocher, et al., reviews how speculative execution and caches can be exploited, presents specific exploits using speculative branches that are direct and indirect, and …Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
This paper describes practical attacks that combine methodology from side-channel attacks, fault attacks, and return-oriented programming that can read arbitrary memory from the victim's process.Technical Perspective: ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter
Can we build purpose-built, warehouse-scale datacenters customized for large-scale arrays of ASIC accelerators or, to use a term coined in the paper by Michael Bedford Taylor, et al., ASIC clouds?ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter for Planet-Scale Applications
This paper distills lessons from Bitcoin ASIC Clouds and applies them to other large scale workloads, showing superior TCO (total cost of ownership) versus CPU and GPU.COLUMN: Last byte
