ACM Computer Applications

• A Healthy Dose of AI

  Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.

• Can Machines Be in Language?

  Large language model challenges.

• Defending the Business

  The potential for a cyber incident is the top risk to business.

• What’s That Smell?

  Digital scent technologies bring aromas to virtual reality.

• Software Managers’ Guide to Operational Excellence

  The secret to being a great engineering leader.

• What Do Computing and Economics Have to Say to Each Other?

  Computing is huge! Pay attention to optimistic economists.

• Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits

  In this paper, we prove the first superpolynomial lower bounds against algebraic circuits of all constant depths over all fields of characteristic 0.

• Technical Perspective: How Easy Is It to Describe Hard Polynomials?

  "Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits," by Nutan Limaye et al., achieves a landmark in the larger quest of understanding hardness, dentity testing, and reconstruction.

• The State of the Metaverse

  After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?

• Mitigating Urban Climate Change

  Making cities greener takes more than just planting trees.