Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's Up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: The Profession of IT
COLUMN: Inside Risks
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Historical Reflections
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed Articles
SECTION: Review Articles
SECTION: Research Highlights
COLUMN: Last Byte
Connectivity Is Everything
As the inventor of Ethernet, now ubiquitous in so many forms, Bob Metcalfe, the Turing Award Laureate for 2022, has earned the right to speak about connectivity.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
AI in the Enterprise
Doug Meil identifies the development behaviors that offer the highest chance of success for enterprise artificial intelligence efforts.COLUMN: News
Making Connections
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.Better Algorithms through Faster Math
The search for new algorithms that could reduce the time needed for multiplication is now at the center of data science.Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid
Ensuring the billions of dollars governments send the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.In Memoriam: William A. Wulf
Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.COLUMN: The Profession of IT
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.COLUMN: Inside Risks
Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
The Parchment Path?
Is there ever a time when learning is not of value—for its own sake?COLUMN: Historical Reflections
Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society
Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications
Breaking down the blockchain.SECTION: Practice
To PiM or Not to PiM
The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.Taking Flight with Copilot
Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.SECTION: Contributed Articles
The Silent (R)evolution of SAT
Today's powerful, robust SAT solvers have become primary tools for solving hard computational problems.Buffer-Bloated Router? How to Prevent It and Improve Performance
Home broadband routers suffering bufferbloat can degrade the user experience when accessing the Internet.SECTION: Review Articles
Should Robots Have Rights or Rites?
A Confucian cross-cultural exploration of the ethical treatment of robots.On the Implicit Bias in Deep-Learning Algorithms
Examining the implicit bias in training neural networks using gradient-based methods.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the power of ACID transactions.Technical Perspective: What Does Provable Security Mean for Cryptographic Schemes?
For a given cryptographic scheme, as perfect security is almost never achievable, one requires a computational assumption. Computational assumptions are some well-defined problems that are widely accepted as difficult.On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP
We reveal that in the interoperable world of OpenPGP, unforeseen cross-configuration attacks become possible.COLUMN: Last Byte
