Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Computing's Grand Challenge for Sustainability
The computing community should embrace a grand challenge to reduce the carbon-emissions and environmental impact of computing in absolute terms dramatically, and if possible, to zero.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Driving an Innovation Contest into Crisis
Aleksandr Romanov considers how a lack of permanent leadership is impacting the InnovateFPGA contest.COLUMN: News
Neurosymbolic AI
Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.In Memoriam: Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022
ACM Fellow and 1993 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Juris Hartmanis, co-inventor of complexity theory, died on July 29, 2022, at 94.Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks
Cybercriminals could be hiding malware payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software is unable to detect it.Applied AI Teaches Handwriting
In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Data Platforms and Network Effects
How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Securing the Company Jewels
GitHub and runbook security.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Storytelling and Science
Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.What's Your Placebo?
The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.SECTION: Practice
Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.Linear Address Spaces
Unsafe at any speed.SECTION: Contributed articles
Creating a Revolutionary Academic Program
Overcoming the inherent challenges.Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.SECTION: Review articles
Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?
Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification space.Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long short-term memory layers and convolutional neural networks.Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things
"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking
We present AuraRing, a wearable magnetic tracking system designed for tracking fine-grained finger movement.COLUMN: Last byte
