Communications of the ACM

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Two projects in China demonstrate the possibility of global quantum key distribution networks.

Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the resources it requires.

In a world increasingly dependent on turning personal data into profits, it is unclear how much that data is actually worth.

Protecting the Internet of Things with embedded security.

Maximizing the performance of neurodiverse talent.

Sometimes you can give the monkey a less-dangerous club.

Considering rapidly evolving human-machine interactions.

How innovation originates from market participants with multiple perspectives about commercial value.

Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

Try to see things from a manager's perspective.

Digital technology determines how (and even whether) people work as much as it determines how information produces economic activity.

Beta testers should represent a future product's target users as much as possible.

The challenge of computing in a highly dynamic environment.

Compilers should not miscompile. Peephole optimizations, which perform local rewriting of the input program to improve the efficiency of generated code, are a persistent source of compiler bugs. We created Alive, a domain-specific language for writing ...

Who can say no to the hive mind's promise of cybernetic immortality, for free?