How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?Peter Bailis, Ali Ghodsi From Communications of the ACM | May 2013
The programmability of FPGAs must improve if they are to be part of mainstream computing.
David F. Bacon, Rodric Rabbah, Sunil Shukla From Communications of the ACM | April 2013
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.Arun Kumar, Feng Niu, Christopher Ré From Communications of the ACM | March 2013
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.Michael Cornwell From Communications of the ACM | December 2012
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.Dennis Abts, Bob Felderman From Communications of the ACM | June 2012
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.Erik Meijer From Communications of the ACM | May 2012
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman From Communications of the ACM | April 2012