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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Researchers are making headway with one of quantum computing's major theoretical problems: multi-prover interactive proofs.

Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from medicine to computing.

"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.

Examining the mismatch between copyright law and technology-influenced evolving social norms in the European Union.

Reflections on a significant, yet often overlooked, computing pioneer.

Combining computing and psychology, J.C.R. Licklider's prescient ideas are being applied in contemporary educational settings.

Computer science is in a period of renaissance as it rediscovers its science roots.

The race to build ever-faster supercomputers is on, with more contenders than ever before. However, the current goals set for this race may not lead to the fastest computation for particular applications.

Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.

How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?

Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.

Surgeons use hand gestures and/or voice commands without interrupting the natural flow of a procedure.

Markets characterized by multiple competing digital standards have room for more than one winner, unlike traditional analog markets.

Employees in emerging markets find their own IT devices vital to job productivity and innovation.

The NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine is a programmable system designed for NVIDIA GPUs and other highly parallel architectures. The OptiX engine builds on the key observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of ...

These three puzzles involve my favorite ant, Ant Alice. Like all ants on this page, Alice moves at exactly one centimeter per second in whichever direction she happens to be facing; if she meets another ant head on, both immediately reverse direction ...