Welcome: Sustainability and Computing Special Section
Computing has a responsibility to become more environmentally sustainable.
Sustainability and Computing
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Continuous Earth Observation of Forest Dynamics and Biodiversity
Efficient approaches to process Earth observation data require scalable computing power and the ability to deal with petabytes of data from distributed and heterogeneous sources.
Efficiency Is Not Enough: A Critical Perspective of Environmentally Sustainable AI
Systems thinking provides a way to move beyond a focus on efficiency and cultivate a nuanced view of the environmental impact of ML and ways to reduce it.
A Brazilian Perspective on Computing for the Planet’s Sustainability
The Brazilian Computing Society's Digital Technologies for the Environment outlines a vision and principles for a sustainable, technology-driven future.
Toward Environmentally Equitable AI
Environmental equity should be a priority for the management of future AI systems.
Energy-Optimized Supercomputer Networks Using Wind Energy
Harnessing the wind to improve the sustainability of energy-intensive computing.
It's critical to address AI's water footprint to ensure that it does not exacerbate global water stresses.
Empowering Users to Make Sustainability-Forward Decisions for Computing Services
Exploring the intersection of sustainable computer systems and sustainable human-computer interaction.
Environmental Computing as a Branch of Science
Environmental computing can deepen our understanding of environmental processes and address the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
Understanding the Environmental Impact of Generative AI Services
A methodology to assess the environmental impact of Stable Diffusion as an end-to-end service.
Full Stack Recycling Approaches for Computing Devices
Full-stack recycling considers computational methods that assist with recycling each layer of an electronic device rather than once at its end-of-life.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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