Dispelling the confusion around serverless computing by capturing its essential and conceptual characteristics.
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Rethinking Distributed Computing for the AI Era
DeepSeek’s mixture-of-experts approach fundamentally changes the distributed computing equation by making computation sparse again.
Thermodynamic Computing Becomes Cool
Exploring a path to more energy efficient, sustainable computing.
Clock Bait: Why The Moon Needs Its Own Time Zone
Clocks tick faster on the Moon, which over time could lead to timing errors that are too large to accept for safe lunar navigation or autonomous navigation.
Quantum Internet Is (Slowly) Becoming a Reality
The global quantum Internet would connect devices like quantum computers and sensors that operate on the principles of quantum mechanics.
Beyond Downtime: Architectural Resilience on Hyperscalers
Essential considerations for building durable systems in the cloud era.
An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf
Laziness is only one of two desirable properties for a bookshelf algorithm. The second is the ability to proactively respond to an adversary’s strategy.
The Emerging Face of Digital Dentistry
Digital technologies could expand treatments and the availability of dental services to undeserved communities.
AI Agents in Healthcare Revolutionizing Patient Care and Clinical Decision-Making
AI agents are playing a growing role in healthcare and changing patient care for the better.
Empowering Sustainability in the Energy Sector through AI
A new wave of AI technologies are leading to smart, responsive energy systems that will define our green future.
Defying Moore: Envisioning the Economics of a Semiconductor Revolution through 12nm Specialization
Architectural innovation can make substantial contributions to the economics and efficiency of sustaining Moore’s Law’s cadence of improvements for AI chips.
Energy-Optimized Supercomputer Networks Using Wind Energy
Harnessing the wind to improve the sustainability of energy-intensive computing.
Tools for Writing and Thinking
Insights into the differences of writing with pen and paper, typewriters, old computers, and AI.
It's critical to address AI's water footprint to ensure that it does not exacerbate global water stresses.
Turning Servers Against the Cloud
Attacks targeting internal metadata APIs let systems access information about settings and resources in the cloud, including network addresses and URLs.
Closing the Gap Between AI Output and Human Expectations
Exploring the gap between what's expected of AI and what it can actually deliver.
Supply Chain Resilience Is More Important than Ever
Cascading relationships that place vendors, partners, and cloud providers into one another’s ecosystems make resilience an essential element of every node.
Researchers have tapped reward-based reinforcement learning to teach robots to walk on diverse terrains, negotiate steps, and handle other motor functions.
CACM Research Highlights Template
The Research Highlights template is available to authors who have been invited by the Research Highlights Board to revise their research papers for Communications magazine. Papers cannot be submitted to the Research Highlights track directly. Space limitations require that these revisions not exceed six to eight two-column magazine pages. The template is offered as a […]
A Generative AI-Powered Digital Twin for Adaptive NASH Care
Conversational digital twins, built responsibly, represent the next frontier in preventive and participatory medicine.
Formal computer science may never model practical computer engineering well enough to be predictive in the way the physical sciences are.
Is AI Security Work Best Done In Academia or Industry? Part 2
Academia benefits from the flow of fresh talent, a pristine stream that is seemingly magically, continually replenished.
Is AI Security Work Best Done In Academia or Industry? Part 1
Many groundbreaking advances in AI research are coming from industry; the source for AI security advances is less clear.
Space-based datacenters would reduce the need for water, electricity, and other earth-based resources.
Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies
An overview of reconfigurable datacenter networks and their technological enablers.
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