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CC-NIC: a Cache-Coherent Interface to the NIC
Henry N. Schuh
Google, Seattle, Washington, USA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
,Arvind Krishnamurthy
Google, Seattle, Washington, United States
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
,David Culler
Google, Berkeley, California, USA
,Henry M. Levy
Google, Seattle, Washington, USA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
,Luigi Rizzo
Google, Pisa, Italy
,Samira Khan
Google, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
,Brent E. Stephens
Google, Seattle, Washington, USA
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
ASPLOS '24: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 1•April 2024, pp 52-68• https://doi.org/10.1145/3617232.3624868Emerging interconnects make peripherals, such as the network interface controller (NIC), accessible through the processor's cache hierarchy, allowing these devices to participate in the CPU cache coherence protocol. This is a fundamental change from the ...
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A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls
Korakit Seemakhupt
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
,Brent E. Stephens
Google and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
,Samira Khan
Google and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
,Sihang Liu
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
,Hassan Wassel
Google, Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America
,Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
Google, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
,Alex C. Snoeren
Google and UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America
,Arvind Krishnamurthy
Google and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
,David E. Culler
Google and University of Californa, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Henry M. Levy
Google and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
SOSP '23: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles•October 2023, pp 498-514• https://doi.org/10.1145/3600006.3613156The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of such applications is the remote procedure call (RPC), which provides ...
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Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale
Padmapriya Duraisamy
Google, USA
,Wei Xu
Google, USA
,Scott Hare
Google, USA
,Ravi Rajwar
Google, USA
,David Culler
Google, USA / University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
,Zhiyi Xu
Google, USA
,Jianing Fan
Google, USA
,Christopher Kennelly
Google, USA
,Bill McCloskey
Google, USA
,Danijela Mijailovic
Google, USA
,Brian Morris
Google, USA
,Chiranjit Mukherjee
Google, USA
,Jingliang Ren
Google, USA
,Greg Thelen
Google, USA
,Paul Turner
Google, USA
,Carlos Villavieja
Google, USA
,Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Google, USA
,Amin Vahdat
Google, USA
ASPLOS 2023: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 3•March 2023, pp 727-741• https://doi.org/10.1145/3582016.3582031Fast DRAM increasingly dominates infrastructure spend in large scale computing environments and this trend will likely worsen without an architectural shift. The cost of deployed memory can be reduced by replacing part of the conventional DRAM with lower ...
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Understanding host interconnect congestion
Saksham Agarwal
Cornell University
,Rachit Agarwal
Cornell University
,Behnam Montazeri
Google
,Masoud Moshref
Google
,Khaled Elmeleegy
Google
,Luigi Rizzo
Google
,Marc Asher de Kruijf
Google
,Gautam Kumar
Google
,Sylvia Ratnasamy
Google & UC Berkeley
,David Culler
Google
,Amin Vahdat
Google
HotNets '22: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks•November 2022, pp 198-204• https://doi.org/10.1145/3563766.3564110We present evidence and characterization of host congestion in production clusters: adoption of high-bandwidth access links leading to emergence of bottlenecks within the host interconnect (NIC-to-CPU data path). We demonstrate that contention on ...
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Cores that don't count
Peter H. Hochschild
Google
,Paul Turner
Google
,Jeffrey C. Mogul
Google
,Rama Govindaraju
Google
,Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Google
,David E. Culler
Google
,Amin Vahdat
Google
HotOS '21: Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems•June 2021, pp 9-16• https://doi.org/10.1145/3458336.3465297We are accustomed to thinking of computers as fail-stop, especially the cores that execute instructions, and most system software implicitly relies on that assumption. During most of the VLSI era, processors that passed manufacturing tests and were ...
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Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible
Hari Balakrishnan
MIT
,Sujata Banerjee
VMware
,Israel Cidon
VMware
,David Culler
Google
,Deborah Estrin
Cornell Tech
,Ethan Katz-Bassett
Columbia University
,Arvind Krishnamurthy
University of Washington
,Murphy McCauley
Mt Holyoke College
,Nick McKeown
Stanford University
,Aurojit Panda
NYU
,Sylvia Ratnasamy
UC Berkeley
,Jennifer Rexford
Princeton University
,Michael Schapira
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
,Scott Shenker
UC Berkeley
,Ion Stoica
UC Berkeley
,David Tennenhouse
VMware
,Amin Vahdat
Google
,Ellen Zegura
Georgia Institute of Technology
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 51, Issue 2•April 2021, pp 18-24 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3464994.3464998There is now a significant and growing functional gap between the public Internet, whose basic architecture has remained unchanged for several decades, and a new generation of more sophisticated private networks. To address this increasing divergence of ...
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10 Years Later: Cloud Computing is Closing the Performance Gap
Giulia Guidi
University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Marquita Ellis
University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Aydin Buluç
University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
,Katherine Yelick
University of California at Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
,David Culler
University of California at Berkeley & Google, Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA
ICPE '21: Companion of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering•April 2021, pp 41-48• https://doi.org/10.1145/3447545.3451183Can cloud computing infrastructures provide HPC-competitive performance for scientific applications broadly? Despite prolific related literature, this question remains open. Answers are crucial for designing future systems and democratizing high-...
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Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley
,Anand Krishnan Prakash
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,Cory Mosiman
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
,Marco Pritoni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,Paul Raftery
UC Berkeley
,Michael Wetter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley
BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation•November 2020, pp 344-345• https://doi.org/10.1145/3408308.3431125Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its lifecycle. While these representations individually contain metadata required to support different stages of the building's lifecycle, they are largely not ...
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Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley
,Anand Krishnan Prakash
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,Cory Mosiman
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
,Marco Pritoni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,Paul Raftery
UC Berkeley
,Michael Wetter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley
BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation•November 2020, pp 70-79• https://doi.org/10.1145/3408308.3427627Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of the building, from initial planning and design, to construction and ...
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PC-RPL: Joint Control of Routing Topology and Transmission Power in Real Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Hyung-Sin Kim
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
,Jeongyeup Paek
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
,David E. Culler
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
,Saewoong Bahk
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 16, Issue 2•May 2020, Article No.: 14, pp 1-32 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3372026We present PC-RPL, a transmission power-controlled IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy wireless networks that significantly improves the end-to-end packet delivery performance under heavy traffic compared to the standard RPL. We show through ...
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Performant TCP for low-power wireless networks
Sam Kumar
University of California, Berkeley
,Michael P Andersen
University of California, Berkeley
,Hyung-Sin Kim
University of California, Berkeley
,David E. Culler
University of California, Berkeley
NSDI'20: Proceedings of the 17th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation•February 2020, pp 911-932Low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) enable diverse applications integrating many resource-constrained embedded devices, often requiring interconnectivity with existing TCP/IP networks as part of the Internet of Things. But TCP has received little ...
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Core Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions in Blockchain: A Centralized Tutorial
John Kolb
University of California -- Berkeley, CA, USA
,Moustafa AbdelBaky
University of California -- Berkeley, CA, USA
,Randy H. Katz
University of California -- Berkeley, CA, USA
,David E. Culler
University of California -- Berkeley, CA, USA
ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 53, Issue 1•January 2021, Article No.: 9, pp 1-39 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3366370Blockchains are a topic of immense interest in academia and industry, but their true nature is often obscured by marketing and hype. In this tutorial, we explain the fundamental elements of blockchains. We discuss their ability to achieve availability, ...
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Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,Marco Pritoni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
,Moustafa Abdelbaky
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,Daniel Lengyel
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,John Leyden
UC Berkeley, California, USA
,Anand Prakash
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
,Pranav Gupta
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
,Paul Raftery
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,Therese Peffer
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,Greg Thomson
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 16, Issue 1•February 2020, Article No.: 7, pp 1-31 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3366375Access to large amounts of real-world data has long been a barrier to the development and evaluation of analytics applications for the built environment. Open datasets exist, but they are limited in their span (how much data is available) and context (...
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An Improved API and User Experience for the Mortar Testbed
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley
BuildSys '19: Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation•November 2019, pp 375-375• https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361008The lack of access to real-world building data has long been a significant barrier to the development and evaluation of robust applications and analyses that operate on the built environment. The Mortar platform is an open testbed for portable building ...
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Beyond a House of Sticks: Formalizing Metadata Tags with Brick
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley
,Jason Koh
UC San Diego
,Yuvraj Agarwal
Carnegie Mellon University
,Rajesh K. Gupta
UC San Diego
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley
BuildSys '19: Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation•November 2019, pp 125-134• https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3360862Current efforts establishing semantic metadata standards for the built environment span academia [3], industry [1] and standards bodies [2, 28]. For these standards to be effective, they must be clearly defined and easily extensible, encourage ...
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- 587
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Dataset: An Open Dataset and Collection Tool for BMS Point Labels
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley
,Sriharsha Guduguntla
UC Berkeley
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley
DATA'19: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Data Acquisition To Analysis•November 2019, pp 40-42• https://doi.org/10.1145/3359427.3361922Semantic metadata standards for buildings such as Brick and Project Haystack show promise in enabling wide-scale deployment of energy-efficiency measures and advanced building management technologies. However, techniques for converting existing diverse ...
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JEDI: many-to-many end-to-end encryption and key delegation for IoT
Sam Kumar
University of California, Berkeley
,Yuncong Hu
University of California, Berkeley
,Michael P. Andersen
University of California, Berkeley
,Raluca Ada Popa
University of California, Berkeley
,David E. Culler
University of California, Berkeley
As the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges over the next decade, developing secure communication for IoT devices is of paramount importance. Achieving end-to-end encryption for large-scale IoT systems, like smart buildings or smart cities, is challenging ...
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WAVE: a decentralized authorization framework with transitive delegation
Michael P. Andersen
University of California, Berkeley
,Sam Kumar
University of California, Berkeley
,Moustafa AbdelBaky
University of California, Berkeley
,Gabe Fierro
University of California, Berkeley
,John Kolb
University of California, Berkeley
,Hyung-Sin Kim
University of California, Berkeley
,David E. Culler
University of California, Berkeley
,Raluca Ada Popa
University of California, Berkeley
Most deployed authorization systems rely on a central trusted service whose compromise can lead to the breach of millions of user accounts and permissions. We present WAVE, an authorization framework offering decentralized trust: no central services can ...
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Democratizing Authority in the Built Environment
Michael P. Andersen
University of California, Berkeley, CA
,John Kolb
University of California, Berkeley, CA
,Kaifei Chen
University of California, Berkeley, CA
,Gabe Fierro
University of California, Berkeley, CA
,David E. Culler
University of California, Berkeley, CA
,Randy Katz
University of California, Berkeley, CA
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 14, Issue 3-4•November 2018, Article No.: 17, pp 1-26 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3199665Operating systems and applications in the built environment have relied upon central authorization and management mechanisms that restrict their scalability, especially with respect to administrative overhead. We propose a new set of primitives ...
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- 831
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Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick
Gabe Fierro
UC Berkeley, CA, USA
,David E. Culler
UC Berkeley, CA, USA
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 14, Issue 3-4•November 2018, Article No.: 18, pp 1-25 • https://doi.org/10.1145/3199666Brick is a recently proposed metadata schema and ontology for describing building components and the relationships between them. It represents buildings as directed labeled graphs using the RDF data model. Using the SPARQL query language, building-...
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- 200
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ACM Author-Izer Service
Summary Description
ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on both their homepage and institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge.
Downloads from these sites are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
ACM Author-Izer also extends ACM’s reputation as an innovative “Green Path” publisher, making ACM one of the first publishers of scholarly works to offer this model to its authors.
To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to establish a free ACM web account. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize the new ACM service to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a different site.
How ACM Author-Izer Works
Authors may post ACM Author-Izer links in their own bibliographies maintained on their website and their own institution’s repository. The links take visitors to your page directly to the definitive version of individual articles inside the ACM Digital Library to download these articles for free.
The Service can be applied to all the articles you have ever published with ACM.
Depending on your previous activities within the ACM DL, you may need to take up to three steps to use ACM Author-Izer.
For authors who do not have a free ACM Web Account:
- Go to the ACM DL http://dl.acm.org/ and click SIGN UP. Once your account is established, proceed to next step.
For authors who have an ACM web account, but have not edited their ACM Author Profile page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account and go to your Author Profile page. Click "Add personal information" and add photograph, homepage address, etc. Click ADD AUTHOR INFORMATION to submit change. Once you receive email notification that your changes were accepted, you may utilize ACM Author-izer.
For authors who have an account and have already edited their Profile Page:
- Sign in to your ACM web account, go to your Author Profile page in the Digital Library, look for the ACM Author-izer link below each ACM published article, and begin the authorization process. If you have published many ACM articles, you may find a batch Authorization process useful. It is labeled: "Export as: ACM Author-Izer Service"
ACM Author-Izer also provides code snippets for authors to display download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal pages. Downloads from these pages are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of ACM articles should reduce user confusion over article versioning.
Note: You still retain the right to post your author-prepared preprint versions on your home pages and in your institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library. But any download of your preprint versions will not be counted in ACM usage statistics. If you use these AUTHOR-IZER links instead, usage by visitors to your page will be recorded in the ACM Digital Library and displayed on your page.
FAQ
- Q. What is ACM Author-Izer?
A. ACM Author-Izer is a unique, link-based, self-archiving service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles for free.
- Q. What articles are eligible for ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer can be applied to all the articles authors have ever published with ACM. It is also available to authors who will have articles published in ACM publications in the future.
- Q. Are there any restrictions on authors to use this service?
- A. No. An author does not need to subscribe to the ACM Digital Library nor even be a member of ACM.
- Q. What are the requirements to use this service?
- A. To access ACM Author-Izer, authors need to have a free ACM web account, must have an ACM Author Profile page in the Digital Library, and must take ownership of their Author Profile page.
- Q. What is an ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM Digital Library. The Author Profile Page supplies a quick snapshot of an author's contribution to the field and some rudimentary measures of influence upon it. Over time, the contents of the Author Profile page may expand at the direction of the community. Please visit the ACM Author Profile documentation page for more background information on these pages.
- Q. How do I find my Author Profile page and take ownership?
- A. You will need to take the following steps:
- Create a free ACM Web Account
- Sign-In to the ACM Digital Library
- Find your Author Profile Page by searching the ACM Digital Library for your name
- Find the result you authored (where your author name is a clickable link)
- Click on your name to go to the Author Profile Page
- Click the "Add Personal Information" link on the Author Profile Page
- Wait for ACM review and approval; generally less than 24 hours
- Q. Why does my photo not appear?
- A. Make sure that the image you submit is in .jpg or .gif format and that the file name does not contain special characters
- Q. What if I cannot find the Add Personal Information function on my author page?
- A. The ACM account linked to your profile page is different than the one you are logged into. Please logout and login to the account associated with your Author Profile Page.
- Q. What happens if an author changes the location of his bibliography or moves to a new institution?
- A. Should authors change institutions or sites, they can utilize ACM Author-Izer to disable old links and re-authorize new links for free downloads from a new location.
- Q. What happens if an author provides a URL that redirects to the author’s personal bibliography page?
- A. The service will not provide a free download from the ACM Digital Library. Instead the person who uses that link will simply go to the Citation Page for that article in the ACM Digital Library where the article may be accessed under the usual subscription rules.
However, if the author provides the target page URL, any link that redirects to that target page will enable a free download from the Service.
- Q. What happens if the author’s bibliography lives on a page with several aliases?
- A. Only one alias will work, whichever one is registered as the page containing the author’s bibliography. ACM has no technical solution to this problem at this time.
- Q. Why should authors use ACM Author-Izer?
- A. ACM Author-Izer lets visitors to authors’ personal home pages download articles for no charge from the ACM Digital Library. It allows authors to dynamically display real-time download and citation statistics for each “authorized” article on their personal site.
- Q. Does ACM Author-Izer provide benefits for authors?
- A. Downloads of definitive articles via Author-Izer links on the authors’ personal web page are captured in official ACM statistics to more accurately reflect usage and impact measurements.
Authors who do not use ACM Author-Izer links will not have downloads from their local, personal bibliographies counted. They do, however, retain the existing right to post author-prepared preprint versions on their home pages or institutional repositories with DOI pointers to the definitive version permanently maintained in the ACM Digital Library.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer benefit the computing community?
- A. ACM Author-Izer expands the visibility and dissemination of the definitive version of ACM articles. It is based on ACM’s strong belief that the computing community should have the widest possible access to the definitive versions of scholarly literature. By linking authors’ personal bibliography with the ACM Digital Library, user confusion over article versioning should be reduced over time.
In making ACM Author-Izer a free service to both authors and visitors to their websites, ACM is emphasizing its continuing commitment to the interests of its authors and to the computing community in ways that are consistent with its existing subscription-based access model.
- Q. Why can’t I find my most recent publication in my ACM Author Profile Page?
- A. There is a time delay between publication and the process which associates that publication with an Author Profile Page. Right now, that process usually takes 4-8 weeks.
- Q. How does ACM Author-Izer expand ACM’s “Green Path” Access Policies?
- A. ACM Author-Izer extends the rights and permissions that authors retain even after copyright transfer to ACM, which has been among the “greenest” publishers. ACM enables its author community to retain a wide range of rights related to copyright and reuse of materials. They include:
- Posting rights that ensure free access to their work outside the ACM Digital Library and print publications
- Rights to reuse any portion of their work in new works that they may create
- Copyright to artistic images in ACM’s graphics-oriented publications that authors may want to exploit in commercial contexts
- All patent rights, which remain with the original owner