Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: Education
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Driving the Cloud to True Zero Carbon
Climate change has come to the fore as a business concern, and this compels the business leaders of computing technology companies to be on the side of progress toward true zero carbon.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Half-Baked High-Resolution Referencing
I wonder whether time resolution, in addition to space resolution, might be a functionality to instantiate. Assuming that this would be an interesting capability, it remains to figure out how to implement it.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Salary Disputes
In Moshe Vardi's "Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?," the short but woefully incomplete answer is that the wage premium for a Ph.D. in CS is simply too small to justify foregoing five years of industry-level …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Issues Arise When Time Goes Digital
Robin K. Hill considers why time can be "a pesky problem for computing."COLUMN: News
Moore's Law: What Comes Next?
Moore's Law challenges point to changes in software.The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
When Permissioned Blockchains Deliver More Decentralization Than Permissionless
Considerations for the governance of distributed systems.COLUMN: Education
CAPE: A Framework for Assessing Equity throughout the Computer Science Education Ecosystem
Examining both the leading indicators of equity in CS and the lagging indicators of student outcomes.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Kabin Fever
KV's guidelines for KFH (koding from home).COLUMN: Viewpoint
Cybersecurity: Is It Worse than We Think?
Evaluating actual implementations and practices versus stated goals.Polanyi's Revenge and AI's New Romance with Tacit Knowledge
Artificial intelligence systems need the wisdom to know when to take advice from us and when to learn from data.Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
Donald Knuth on the best way to recognize the history of computer science.SECTION: Practice
Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry CoattaThe Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.SECTION: Contributed articles
AZERTY amélioré: Computational Design on a National Scale
A new French keyboard standard is the first designed with the help of computational methods.GDPR Anti-Patterns
How design and operation of modern cloud-scale systems conflict with GDPR.Keeping Science on Keel When Software Moves
An approach to reproducibility problems related to porting software across machines and compilers.SECTION: Review articles
A Review of the Semantic Web Field
Tracing the triumphs and challenges of two decades of Semantic Web research and applications.DP-Cryptography: Marrying Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Emerging Applications
Synthesizing the emerging directions of research at the intersection of differential privacy and cryptography.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols
The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable, safe, and retargetable.BioScript: Programming Safe Chemistry on Laboratories-on-a-Chip
This paper introduces BioScript, a domain-specific language for programmable biochemistry that executes on emerging microfluidic platforms.Technical Perspective: Solving the Signal Reconstruction Problem at Scale
"Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications," by Abolfazl Asudeh, et al. shows that algorithmic insights about SRP, combined with database techniques, can be used to scalably solve the signal reconstruction …Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications
Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving this critical problem.COLUMN: Last byte
