Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: From the ACM CEO
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
DEPARTMENT: ACM publications finances
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: Viewpoint
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Communicating ACM Priorities
The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only an issue of fairness, but also of excellence; research consistently finds that diverse teams produce better results than non-diverse teams.DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?
The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
On Heterogeneous Computing
Computing is an endless frontier in which we have an unending supply of new problems to confront in the search for new solutions.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Common Ails
Michael A. Cusumano's October 2021 column, "Section 230 and a Tragedy of the Commons," contains some fundamental factual errors that further muddle a debate that already has been rife with inaccuracies.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Seeking Out Camille, and Being Open to Others
Robin K. Hill on overcoming biases against alternative views, and Carlos Baquero on his search for the elusive Camille Noûs.COLUMN: News
Trouble at the Source
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."DEPARTMENT: ACM publications finances
ACM Publications Finances for 2020
This annual update on ACM Publications finances summarizes income and expenses for the 2020 calendar year.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
'In Situ' Data Rights
Improving on data portability.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Accelerator-Level Parallelism
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Patent Absurdity
A case when ignorance is the best policy.COLUMN: Viewpoint
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.SECTION: Practice
When Curation Becomes Creation
Algorithms, microcontent, and the vanishing distinction between platforms and creators.Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)
A user interface for querying provenance.SECTION: Contributed articles
The Hardware Lottery
After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease
3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities
Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.SECTION: Review articles
Datasheets for Datasets
Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution
"Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven," by Haojian Jin et al., introduces a feedback mechanism to microwave heating through a technique the authors call software-defined cooking.Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
We present software-defined cooking (SDC), a low-cost closed-loop microwave oven system that aims to heat food in a software-defined thermal trajectory.Technical Perspective: A Recipe for Protecting Against Speculation Attacks
"Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data," by Jiyong Yu et al., might be a beginning of an end to speculation-based attacks.Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
This paper proposes speculative taint tracking (STT), a high security and high performance hardware mechanism, to block speculative execution attacks.COLUMN: Last byte
