Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's Up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
DEPARTMENT: ACM Publications Finances
COLUMN: Technology Strategy and Management
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Economic and Business Dimensions
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed Articles
SECTION: Review Articles
SECTION: Research Highlights
COLUMN: Last Byte
Scaffolding as Catalyst
As with the huge hotel and condo complex being constructed adjacent to the building where my office is located, tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves
Gary Marcus on the systems that "pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society."COLUMN: News
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Finding novel materials needs more than pure machine learning.AI Rewrites Coding
Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.. . . And the Computer Plays Along
Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.DEPARTMENT: ACM Publications Finances
ACM Publications Finances for 2021
One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its …COLUMN: Technology Strategy and Management
Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
All Sliders to the Right
Hardware overkill.COLUMN: Economic and Business Dimensions
Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience
Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.SECTION: Practice
OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.OSS Supply-Chain Security: What Will It Take?
A discussion with Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, and Chris McCubbinSECTION: Contributed Articles
Protecting Autonomous Cars from Phantom Attacks
Enabling object detectors to better distinguish between real and fake objects in semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.Eight Reasons to Prioritize Brain-Computer Interface Cybersecurity
Defining and analyzing the impact of cyberattacks on novel generations of BCIs.SECTION: Review Articles
Mechanical Mathematicians
A new generation of automatic theorem provers eliminate bugs in software and mathematics.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks
"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network behave like a single wire.Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs
We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.COLUMN: Last Byte
