Improving Everyday Computer-Human Interactions
Solutions presented in several papers at CHI 2025 may not be as simple to implement as they sound, experts say.
Systems and Networking
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Fighting for the Right to Repair
Advocates say incentives such as taxes on non-reparable goods and subsidies for repair-friendly designs could encourage manufacturers to support DIY repairs.
TMO: Transparent Memory Offloading in Datacenters
TMO addresses questions of how much memory to offload and what memory to offload.
Technical Perspective: Memory Efficiency via Offloading in Warehouse-Scale Datacenters
The paper presents an evaluation of TMO deployed across millions of servers in Meta’s datacenters.
Embracing Her Critics To Refine VoIP
"When I started listening to what my critics were actually saying, I thought, 'Okay, then that’s what we’re going to do. Thank you for letting me know.'"
Remembering Marge Hoogeboom: A Remote Software Development Pioneer (in 1969!)
A jokey suggestion about working from home led to the creation of a dedicated remote system and workflow.
How AI Could Supercharge AR and VR
AI technologies and innovations are expected to unlock unprecedented experiences across AR and VR devices.
NeuroRadar: A Neuromorphic Radar Sensor for Low-Power IoT Systems
NeuroRadar provides a unique and innovative solution for radar sensing in energy-constrained IoT devices.
Smart Home IoT and Its Impact on Commercial Real Estate
With sensors collecting occupancy and environmental data, clear privacy policies are essential.
Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?
The stable business model on which the Web thrived is now being threatened by GenAI.
A New Era for Retail Computing
AI and cloud technology can predict customer needs, help manage stock, and provide real-time insights.
Why Business Intelligence Alone Won’t Cut It Anymore
Business Intelligence is backward-looking, and has limitations in the modern enterprise.
It Takes a Village: Bridging the Gaps between Current and Formal Specifications for Protocols
Proposals for narrowing the gap between the formal methods and networking communities.
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.
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.
Energy-Optimized Supercomputer Networks Using Wind Energy
Harnessing the wind to improve the sustainability of energy-intensive computing.
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.
Deleting X: Why SIGDOC Left the Platform
The platform does not embrace communication design, privacy, and trust, the group's members say.
The Rise of the AI-Enabled Agentic Internet
Society is turning over major and minor decisions once made exclusively by humans to AI agents.
Formal computer science may never model practical computer engineering well enough to be predictive in the way the physical sciences are.
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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