Communications of the ACM
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DEPARTMENT: Career paths in computing
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Privacy
SECTION: Computing ethics
COLUMN: Education
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: China Region special section
SECTION: China Region special section: Hot topics
SECTION: China Region special section: Big trends
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences
The current computing-research publication system conflates research publishing with community building. We may need in-person conferences for community building, but not so many!DEPARTMENT: Career paths in computing
Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's a Fun Career
In 1963, the British government decided to make the world's most powerful computer. The manufacturer, Ferranti, asked would-be buyers to send their best programmers to help. Kodak sent me.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Assessing Internet Software Engineering, Encouraging Competitions
Andrei Sukhov considers the potential for reducing international tensions through competitive events, while Vivek S. Buzruk looks at the evolution of teaching Internet software engineering.COLUMN: News
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.Holograms on the Horizon?
Machine learning drives toward 3D imaging on the move.Filtering for Beauty
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.COLUMN: Privacy
Privacy Engineering Superheroes
Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.SECTION: Computing ethics
Shaping Ethical Computing Cultures
Lessons from the recent past.COLUMN: Education
Explicative Programming
Making Computational Thinking relevant to schools.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental rights framework already provides some clear guidance on the use …We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.SECTION: China Region special section
Welcome Back!
Welcome to the second regional special section spotlighting China.SECTION: China Region special section: Hot topics
Innovations and Trends in China's Digital Economy
An examination of three digital start-ups which have become top domestic brands in their respective industries.Teaching Undergraduates to Build Real Computer Systems
To mitigate the gap between theory and practice, Chinese educators have spent the last decade focusing on teaching undergraduates to build real computer systems.Knowledgeable Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
The knowledgeable machine learning framework utilizes knowledge for language understanding in NLP.AI+X Micro-Program Fosters Interdisciplinary Skills in China
The nature of artificial intelligence is interdisciplinary, and its power lies in augmenting its ability to accelerate research exponentially.AI Start-Ups in China
Chinese AI start-ups have moved away from noisy bubbles and landed in an investment boom.Natural Interactive Techniques for the Detection and Assessment of Neurological Diseases
A look at recent advances in the use of natural user interface (NUI) for neurological disease detection and assessment.Processing Extreme-Scale Graphs on China's Supercomputers
Enabling extreme-scale graph processing in two leading supercomputer architectures.SECTION: China Region special section: Big trends
The Present and Future of Mixed Reality in China
VR, AR, and the push to MR.The Practice of Applying AI to Benefit Visually Impaired People in China
The tremendous development of information technology has brought challenges to the visually impaired in China.Crowdsensing 2.0
Mobile crowdsensing, a new paradigm based on the power of user-companioned devices, is expected to play an important role in the coming digital economics era.The Practice of Speech and Language Processing in China
Several companies are trying push automatic speech recognition and other technologies past their current limitations.Blockchain in China
China underscores the critical role of blockchain technology in the new round of technological innovation and industrial transformation.SECTION: Practice
What Went Wrong?
Why we need an IT accident investigation board.SECTION: Contributed articles
There Is No AI Without Data
Industry experiences on the data challenges of AI and the call for a data ecosystem for industrial enterprises.Inferring and Improving Street Maps with Data-Driven Automation
Automatic map inference, data refinement, and machine-assisted map editing promises more accurate map datasets.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Finding the Sweet Spot Amid Accuracy and Performance
"Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service," by Alexandru Cristian et al., makes accessible an end-to-end cloud service that produces traffic-aware, real-time dispatching of agents under complex constraints.Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service
We describe multi-itinerary optimization, a novel Bing Maps service that automates the process of building itineraries for multiple agents while optimizing their routes to minimize travel time or distance.Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games
"MIP* = RE," by Zhengfeng Ji et al., studies quantum interactive proofs.MIP* = RE
In this work, we study a fourth modification to the notion of efficient verification that originates in the study of quantum entanglement.COLUMN: Last byte
