Communicating ACM Priorities

The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only an issue of fairness, but also of excellence; research consistently finds that diverse teams produce better results than non-diverse teams.

Vicki L. Hanson

Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?

The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.

Andrew A. Chien

On Heterogeneous Computing

Computing is an endless frontier in which we have an unending supply of new problems to confront in the search for new solutions.

Vinton G. Cerf

Common Ails

Michael A. Cusumano's October 2021 column, "Section 230 and a Tragedy of the Commons," contains some fundamental factual errors that further muddle a debate that already has been rife with inaccuracies.

CACM Staff

Seeking Out Camille, and Being Open to Others

Robin K. Hill on overcoming biases against alternative views, and Carlos Baquero on his search for the elusive Camille Noûs.

Robin K. Hill, Carlos Baquero

Trouble at the Source

Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.

Don Monroe

The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality

A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.

Keith Kirkpatrick

What Is the Cost of Living Online?

The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."

Samuel Greengard

ACM Publications Finances for 2020

This annual update on ACM Publications finances summarizes income and expenses for the 2020 calendar year.

Jack W. Davidson, Joseph A. Konstan, Scott E. Delman

Computational Thinking for Professionals

Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.

Peter J. Denning, Matti Tedre

'In Situ' Data Rights

Improving on data portability.

Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Georgios Petropoulos, Geoffrey Parker, Bertin Martens

Accelerator-Level Parallelism

Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.

Mark D. Hill, Vijay Janapa Reddi

Patent Absurdity

A case when ignorance is the best policy.

George V. Neville-Neil

What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness

Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.

Rosalind Picard

When Curation Becomes Creation

Algorithms, microcontent, and the vanishing distinction between platforms and creators.

Liu Leqi, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Zachary C. Lipton

Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)

A user interface for querying provenance.

Ashish Gehani, Raza Ahmad, Hassaan Irshad, Jianqiao Zhu, Jignesh Patel

The Hardware Lottery

After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.

Sara Hooker

AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease

3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.

Xiaowei Xu, Hailong Qiu, Qianjun Jia, Yuhao Dong, Zeyang Yao, Wen Xie, Huiming Guo, Haiyun Yuan, Jian Zhuang, Meiping Huang, Yiyu Shi

Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities

Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.

Ranveer Chandra, Stewart Collis

Datasheets for Datasets

Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.

Timnit Gebru, Jamie Morgenstern, Briana Vecchione, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, Hal Daumé III, Kate Crawford

Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution

"Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven," by Haojian Jin et al., introduces a feedback mechanism to microwave heating through a technique the authors call software-defined cooking.

Fadel Adib

Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven

We present software-defined cooking (SDC), a low-cost closed-loop microwave oven system that aims to heat food in a software-defined thermal trajectory.

Haojian Jin, Jingxian Wang, Swarun Kumar, Jason Hong

Technical Perspective: A Recipe for Protecting Against Speculation Attacks

"Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data," by Jiyong Yu et al., might be a beginning of an end to speculation-based attacks.

Timothy Sherwood

Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data

This paper proposes speculative taint tracking (STT), a high security and high performance hardware mechanism, to block speculative execution attacks.

Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Artem Khyzha, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas, Christopher W. Fletcher

Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing

ACM Computing Prize recipient Scott Aaronson discusses his work in quantum complexity.

Leah Hoffmann