Questions About Policies & Processes in the Wake of JIC
On February 8th, 2021, ACM publicly announced a summary of the Joint Investigative Committee’s (JIC’s) investigation into allegations of professional and publications related misconduct in our community. The announcement stated that there were several individuals who...
Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Our Computing Community
[This article also appears on the IEEE TCCA Blog, the ACM’s Committee for Systematic Change webpage, and the IEEE CS Diversity & Inclusion webpages.] There is a movement occurring broadly across many scientific and engineering fields, including widely within our...
Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design
FPGA-based accelerators have opened up a new frontier for accelerator design; instead of spending months building and fabricating silicon chips, programmers can buy a cloud instance to run custom hardware accelerators within hours. With the remarkable new hardware, there is a need for remarkable new software.
Post Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computers, once seen as a remote theoretical possibility, are now a widely accepted and imminent reality. By exploiting the probabilistic rules of quantum physics, quantum computers can leverage Shor’s algorithm to initiate several breakthroughs, including...Subscribe
