Communications of the ACM

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Cryptographers are developing algorithms to ensure security in a world of quantum computing.

Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.

We need to mitigate the environmental impact of disposing of electronics at their end of useful life.

Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.

Guaranteeing truth in advertising.

Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.

Attempting to balance the challenging trade-offs between individual rights and our obligations to one another.

Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.

Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.

Cryptography meets monetary policy.

DSAs gain efficiency from specialization and performance from parallelism.

A cycle that traces ways to define the landscape of data science.

Google's TPU supercomputers train deep neural networks 50x faster than general-purpose supercomputers running a high-performance computing benchmark.

Blockchain technology can shape innovation and competition in digital platforms, but under what conditions?

Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to maximize performance. For example, if the destination of a branch depends on a memory value that is in the process of being read, CPUs will try to guess the destination and attempt to ...

Planet-scale applications are driving the exponential growth of the Cloud, and datacenter specialization is the key enabler of this trend. GPU- and FPGA-based clouds have already been deployed to accelerate compute-intensive workloads. ASIC-based clouds ...

Choosing how to best navigate turbulent current events.