For almost 50 years we have been riding Moore's Law's exponential curve. Oh, what a ride it has been! No other technology has ever improved at a geometric rate for decades …

The computer science community is deeply concerned over the fate of Masaud Jahromi, chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ahlia University in Bahrain …

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following article is now available in its entirety to ACM members …

Bertrand Meyer writes about his long-standing decision not to provide anonymous reviews. Greg Linden considers how educational practices could be improved through the data mining of students' schoolwork.

A new service, named the ACM Author-Izer, is a unique tool that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository that will …

Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them.

Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?

Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?

Sounding the alert on emergency calling system deficiencies.

"U.S. broadband is terrible" has become a familiar meme. Given the growing importance of broadband Internet connections, a poor broadband infrastructure would indeed be cause for concern. As it turns out, however, much of this …

Assessing the implications of the Google Book Search settlement.

Considering whether software engineering and engineering can share a profession.

Nine teacher-oriented faculty in computer science departments at research universities in the U.S. or Canada describe how their positions work, how they …

Using the past 10 years of Taulbee Survey data to evaluate female student enrollment across varied academic institutions and departments.

The time has come for software liability laws.

Difficult technical problems and tough business challenges.

Why the next language you learn should be functional.

Users will speak rather than type, watch video rather than read, and use technology socially rather than alone.

Insightful implementers refocus user ambivalence and resistance toward trust and acceptance of new systems.

HPF pioneered a high-level approach to parallel programming but failed to win over a broad user community.

Technology able to create devices the size of a human cell calls for new protocols.

The following paper combines two important themes in secure computing: assurance and information flow control. For high assurance, a system's Trusted Computing Base needs to be small and the policy simple. Flow control is …

Features of the new HiStar operating system permit several novel applications, including privacy-preserving, untrusted virus scanners and a dynamic Web server with only a few thousand lines of trusted code.

In a breakthrough contribution, the authors of the paper that follows have developed an efficient way to find approximate nearest neighbors for the case of database patches within …

This paper presents a new randomized algorithm for quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. Our algorithm offers substantial performance improvements over the previous state of the art. 

Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is as yet (famously) unsolved.

How to address user information needs amidst a preponderance of data.