To the Members of ACM

ACM has the responsibility to fulfill its mission to the fullest, not just for the sake of computing professionals but for society at large.

Yannis Ioannidis

Color Blind Accessibility Manifesto

Designing experiences from an accessibility and inclusion perspective significantly expands creative possibilities and creates better solutions for everyone.

Federico Monaco

Advancing in the Technical Hierarchy

Doug Meil considers the steps to becoming a technical leader.

Doug Meil

Formalizing Fairness

Algorithmic fairness aims to remedy issues stemming from algorithmic bias.

Marina Krakovsky

Crossing the Uncanny Valley

The "uncanny valley effect" may be holding back the field of robotics.

Logan Kugler

Neurotechnology and the Law

How closely should implants be regulated?

Esther Shein

Why Universities Must Resist GPA-based Enrollment Caps in the Face of Surging Enrollments

Considering the challenges for universities to adapt their business models to changing student demands.

Carla E. Brodley

When Should a Black Box Be Transparent?

When is a replacement not a replacement?

George V. Neville-Neil

An Interview with Dana Scott

ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.

Len Shustek

Transforming Science through Cyberinfrastructure

NSF's vision for the U.S. cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for science and engineering in the 21st century.

Manish Parashar, Amy Friedlander, Erwin Gianchandani, Margaret Martonosi

Computational Thinking in the Era of Data Science

Incorporating data thinking into computer science education.

Koby Mike, Noa Ragonis, Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, Orit Hazzan

FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware

Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.

Michael Mattioli

Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from Mythos to Diagnostics

A path forward for the ML community to address a stark disconnect.

Valerie Chen, Jeffrey Li, Joon Sik Kim, Gregory Plumb, Ameet Talwalkar

Advances in the Quantum Internet

A deep dive into the quantum Internet's potential to transform and disrupt.

Laszlo Gyongyosi, Sandor Imre

The Dawn of Crowdfarms

Some small companies are making crowdwork part of their formal business via teams that can complete multifaceted, complex tasks requiring specialized expertise.

Yihong Wang, Konstantinos Papangelis, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Vassilis-Javed Khan, Michael Saker, Yong Yue, Jonathan Grudin

The Seattle Report on Database Research

Every five years, a group of the leading database researchers meet to reflect on their community's impact on the computing industry as well as examine current research challenges.

Daniel Abadi, Anastasia Ailamaki, David Andersen, Peter Bailis, Magdalena Balazinska, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Boncz, Surajit Chaudhuri, Alvin Cheung, Anhai Doan, Luna Dong, Michael J. Franklin, Juliana Freire, Alon Halevy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Stratos Idreos, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Volker Markl, Sergey Melnik, Tova Milo, C. Mohan, Thomas Neumann, Beng Chin Ooi, Fatma Ozcan, Jignesh Patel, Andrew Pavlo, Raluca Popa, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Christopher Re, Michael Stonebraker, Dan Suciu

Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?

In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair data structures.

Qin Zhang

Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness

We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.

Martin Aumüller, Sariel Har-Peled, Sepideh Mahabadi, Rasmus Pagh, Francesco Silvestri

Technical Perspective: hXDP: Light and Efficient Packet Processing Offload

In "hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs," the authors offer an interesting solution to bridging the performance gap between the CPU and the home network.

Noa Zilberman

hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs

We present hXDP, a solution to run on FPGAs software packet processing tasks described with the eBPF technology and targeting the Linux's eXpress Data Path.

Marco Spaziani Brunella, Giacomo Belocchi, Marco Bonola, Salvatore Pontarelli, Giuseppe Siracusano, Giuseppe Bianchi, Aniello Cammarano, Alessandro Palumbo, Luca Petrucci, Roberto Bifulco

The Luce Goose

A space-traveling bail-bond agent and the ship's resourceful AI chase fugitives across the galaxy.

E. C. Logan