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Opinion
Usable Security: How to Get It
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.
Recent Opinion
Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent perspectives. One perspective is that parallel programming is…
On the 10th anniversary of ACM's Digital Library
When ACM launched its pioneering Digital Library a decade ago, it was one of the first professional societies to offer its members—and the broader computing community—a digital repository of its publications. At launch, the…
Education: Reprogramming college preparatory computer science
The college preparatory computer science education curriculum must be improved, beginning with the earliest phases of the process.
Legally speaking: Quantafying the value of patent exhaustion
Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?
Cyber Privacy and Security Pose Difficult Problems
It's not just science or engineering that will be needed to address security concerns, but law, economics, anthropology, and more.
Investing in Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
Point/counterpoint: The U.S. should ban paperless electronic voting machines
Debating the public policy issues involved in proposed efforts toward improving voting systems while considering the range of technical and societal challenges.
Historical reflections: Will the future of software be open source?
Tracing the course of influential computing developments and considering possible paths to new paradigms.
From the front lines: DOA with SOA
Diagnosing the symptoms of failing to accommodate critical software architecture properties that often result in the demise of projects.
Computer Experts: Guns-for-Hire or Professionals?: guns-for-hire or professionals?
Considering the responsibilities of those who build systems fundamental to significant social functions, institutions, and values.
Featured: From the Blogs
Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use…Alerts & Feeds
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