Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's Up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Opinion
COLUMN: The Profession of IT
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Opinion
COLUMN: Historical Reflections
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Research
SECTION: Research Highlights
COLUMN: Last Byte
On Expert Testimony
The role of ACM members, as professionals in the computing realm, makes them candidates for the provision of expert testimony in both criminal and civil judicial proceedings.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Comparing Chatbots Trained in Different Languages
Antony Chayka and Andrei Sukhov examine how training chatbots in English or Russian affects their responses.COLUMN: News
Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive
A battle over "truth and who has access to it in the digital age."Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.COLUMN: Opinion
Thus Spake ChatGPT
On the reliability of AI-based chatbots for science communication.Why Is the Current XAI Not Meeting the Expectations?
Seeking better explanations for how algorithmic decisions are made.COLUMN: The Profession of IT
A Clash of Civilizations
The much-sought holy grail of more and faster innovation will come from integrating pipeline thinking and adoption thinking.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Halfway Around the World
Learn the language, meet the people, eat the food.COLUMN: Opinion
A Strategy for Scaling Advanced Analytics
Key elements for scaling advanced analytics.Five Ways Executives Misunderstand Technology
How executives might better understand technology.COLUMN: Historical Reflections
There Was No 'First AI Winter'
Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.SECTION: Practice
Pointers in Far Memory
Rethinking how data and computations should be organized.How Flexible Is CXL's Memory Protection?
Replacing a sledgehammer with a scalpel.SECTION: Research
Data Analytics Anywhere and Everywhere
Mobile, ubiquitous, and immersive computing appear poised to transform visualization, data science, and data-driven decision making.Theoretical Analysis of Edit Distance Algorithms
To what extent have the techniques for theoretical analysis of edit distance algorithms achieved their goals?When Two Cameras Are a Crowd
Understanding and handling interference across multiple active cameras.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: Maximum Flow through a Network: A Storied Problem and a Groundbreaking Solution
"Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow," by Li Chen et al., comes within striking distance of answering the question: "Does maximum flow have a scalable algorithm?"Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow
We present an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with m edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities in m1+o(1) time.COLUMN: Last Byte
