Communications of the ACM

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.

Stacking chips and connecting them vertically increases both speed and functionality.

Organizations work to address 'a notable absence of women in the field.'

Understanding the unique local context, as well as technical considerations, are essential components of successful project deployment.

Seeking the best measures to reach advantaged and less-advantaged students equally.

Cache is king. And if your cache is cut, you are going to feel it.

Considering the possibility of achieving an e-democracy based on long-established foundations that strengthen both real-world democracies and virtual Internet communities.

Increased technology is not the solution to the fundamental issue of declining democratic culture.

Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.

What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?

For many data items, the work never settles on a value.

Science fiction in particular offers students a way to cultivate their capacity for moral imagination.

Queueing theoretic models can guide design trade-offs in systems targeting tail latency, not just average performance.

Online privacy is not just about what you disclose about yourself, it is also about what others disclose about you.

Graphs that model social networks, numerical simulations, and the structure of the Internet are enormous and cannot be manually inspected. A popular metric used to analyze these networks is Betweenness Centrality (BC), which has applications in ...

Upgraded with new instructions, my AI aims to debug its original programmer, along with his home planet.