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: Opinion
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Research
SECTION: Research Highlights
COLUMN: Last Byte
To Regulate Tech, Nullify Click-Through Contracts
It is time to cut the Gordian knot and nullify, legislatively, all click-through agreements.DEPARTMENT: Career Paths in Computing
Finding the Right Mix of Creativity and Technology
The original Star Wars and The Matrix were pivotal influences in igniting my unshakable fascination with technology-driven creativity.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space
Carlos Baquero investigates cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.COLUMN: News
Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.COLUMN: Law and Technology
Closing Our Digital Divides
Seeking a more efficient path to improved broadband Internet access.COLUMN: Security
Coming of Age
Stressing the importance of threat models.COLUMN: The Profession of IT
The Smallness of Large Language Models
There is so much more to language and human beings than large language models can possibly master.COLUMN: Opinion
Dilemma of the Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Landscape
Navigating the complex and varying AI regulatory landscape.We Need to Focus on How Our Data Is Used, Not Just How It Is Shared
Toward better understanding of the different ways data circulates between users and platforms.Rebutting Rebuttals
Evaluating the impact of the conference review rebuttal process.Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
How collaborative designs and community-based moderation could improve social media.SECTION: Practice
Cargo Cult AI
Is the ability to think scientifically the defining essence of intelligence?Research for Practice: OS Scheduling
Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.SECTION: Research
Heads-Up Computing
Developing tools that better complement natural human capabilities to support a more human-centered vision.Dynamic Certification for Autonomous Systems
An attempt to provide a common language between formal models, simulations, real-world (testing) data, and regulatory mechanisms.Humble AI
An effort to bring artificial intelligence into better alignment with our moral aims and finally realize the vision of superior decision making through AI.Serverless Computing
Dispelling the confusion around serverless computing by capturing its essential and conceptual characteristics.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: Tapping the Link between Algorithmic Model Counting and Streaming
"Model Counting Meets Distinct Elements," by A. Pavan et al., gives a surprising connection between model counting and streaming, providing a generic transformation of data stream algorithms for F0 estimation to algorithms for …Model Counting Meets Distinct Elements
In this work, we seek to investigate whether bridging the seeming communication gap between two different domains of computer science may pave the way to richer fundamental insights.COLUMN: Last Byte
