Dispelling the confusion around serverless computing by capturing its essential and conceptual characteristics.
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Researchers have tapped reward-based reinforcement learning to teach robots to walk on diverse terrains, negotiate steps, and handle other motor functions.
CACM Research Highlights Template
The Research Highlights template is available to authors who have been invited by the Research Highlights Board to revise their research papers for Communications magazine. Papers cannot be submitted to the Research Highlights track directly. Space limitations require that these revisions not exceed six to eight two-column magazine pages. The template is offered as a […]
A Generative AI-Powered Digital Twin for Adaptive NASH Care
Conversational digital twins, built responsibly, represent the next frontier in preventive and participatory medicine.
Formal computer science may never model practical computer engineering well enough to be predictive in the way the physical sciences are.
Is AI Security Work Best Done In Academia or Industry? Part 2
Academia benefits from the flow of fresh talent, a pristine stream that is seemingly magically, continually replenished.
Is AI Security Work Best Done In Academia or Industry? Part 1
Many groundbreaking advances in AI research are coming from industry; the source for AI security advances is less clear.
Space-based datacenters would reduce the need for water, electricity, and other earth-based resources.
Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies
An overview of reconfigurable datacenter networks and their technological enablers.
Freeze! How Immobilizing Medical Records Immunizes Patients Against Data Breaches
Researchers developed automated tools that run dummy data for analysis as a step in keeping personal data in medical records secure.
Digital identity attributes could be swapped or rented to provide a window into another person's thinking or perceptions.
Privacy, performance, and security benefits have everyone from academic computer scientists to technology giants racing to develop more efficient ways of pulling AI out of the cloud and closer to users.
Call for Papers: CACM Practice Section
Submit articles for inclusion in CACM’s new Practice section, dedicated to enhancing practitioners’ understanding of computing and improving job performance. Communications of the ACM (CACM) is the ACM’s flagship magazine. It is sent to all ACM members and its articles are available open access. Although CACM has long had a strong academic and research focus, […]
How Liquid Networks Make Robots Smarter
The architecture of the liquid network includes recurrences which support adaptation.
Ultra-scale developments could have a profound impact on future transistor designs.
Designing an Efficient Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory
Sherman demonstrates that combining RDMA hardware features and RDMA-friendly software designs can enable a high-performance index on disaggregated memory.
Technical Perspective: A Write-Optimized Distributed B+Tree Index on Disaggregated Memory
The high-performance tree index uses a lock-free search with versions to resolve read-write conflicts and exclusive locks to resolve write-write conflicts.
Quantum Computing’s Impact on Algorithmic Complexity
Quantum computing is poised to gut the foundations of modern software development.
Exascale Supercomputers Tracking Down Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Simulations of the universe help laboratory physicists explore the observable manifestations of dark matter and dark energy.
Analytics Are A Full Stack Problem
Dashboards provide insight into operations and opportunities for improvement.
Environmental Embodied AI is an intelligent virtual agent capable of real-time perception, learning, and interaction with its surrounding environment.
Digital Past Stirs Analog Memories at Extinct Media Museum
Visitors are encouraged to pick up devices and try them out.
Security Research Gaps Leave Critical Infrastructure Open to Cyberattack
The risk of attack on industrial controls is greater for today's interconnected systems than for those in the isolated world of Stuxnet.
Fulfilling the Growing Power Requirements of AI Datacenters
Nuclear energy checks many of the boxes sought for a modern power source.
Predicting the Unpredictable: The AI Outlook
Uncertainties about competition, legislation, and sustainability counterbalance the thrilling potential of AI.
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