Communications of the ACM
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DEPARTMENT: Career paths in computing
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Law and technology
COLUMN: Security
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Point/counterpoint
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Technology and Democracy
Computing has become highly important in everyday life during the past 75 years. In addition to its many benefits, however, it has also played a major role in driving societal polarization.DEPARTMENT: Career paths in computing
The Making of an IT Strategy Consultant
Years ago, my mentor asked me how I envisioned my career. I replied, "It's important that my work is fun." She replied rather dryly, "You can't live off fun, Kristian."DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Changing the Nature of AI Research
Subbarao Kambhampati considers how artificial intelligence may be straying from its roots.COLUMN: News
Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.The Road to 6G
Looking past 5G to sixth-generation wireless technology.How AI Is Driving the Esports Boom
Artificial intelligence is helping the esports industry take the world by storm.COLUMN: Law and technology
These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.COLUMN: Security
Security by Labeling
Protecting and empowering the digital consumer.COLUMN: The profession of IT
The Atlas Milestone
Celebrating virtual memory, which has made such a difference in how we approach programming, memory management, and secure computing.COLUMN: Point/counterpoint
On the Model of Computation: Point: We Must Extend Our Model of Computation to Account for Cost and Location
We must extend our model of computation to account for cost and location.On the Model of Computation: Counterpoint: Parallel Programming Wall and Multicore Software Spiral: Denial Hence Crisis
Parallel programming wall and multicore software spiral: Denial hence crisis.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket
Toward new research directions in computer science.SECTION: Practice
Middleware 101
What to know now and for the future.Persistence Programming
Are we doing this right?SECTION: Contributed articles
Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
Lessons from a pandemic.Deconstructing the Bakery to Build a Distributed State Machine
A rigorous journey from the bakery algorithm to a distributed state machine.SECTION: Review articles
When SDN and Blockchain Shake Hands
A survey of recent efforts to combine SDN and BC shows promising results and points to directions for future research.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely new perspective.Polymorphic Wireless Receivers
We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.Technical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security Measures
"Measuring Security Practices," by Louis F. DeKoven et al., provide a unique perspective into how users choose to implement common security advice in practice.Measuring Security Practices
This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement of a large population of computer devices.COLUMN: Last byte
