Cultivating Habits: -1 +2 for Researchers
The New Year is stereotypically the time when we resolve to start some good habits and get rid of some of the bad.
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Is the Global Computing Community Irrevocably Divided?
The powerful forces pulling the global computing community apart have broad implications on all seven continents, not just in the U.S. and China.
Technology can lead to improved education, but only if we move slow and do not break things.
How Computing Empowered Me to Tackle Big Problems in Medicine
What have I learned that might be helpful in preparing aspiring computer scientists to lead impactful and meaningful professional lives?
Is Higher Education an Engine of Opportunity, or a Perpetuator of Privilege?
Mark Guzdial considers the goals of computer science education and the role(s) of educators within that.
What is your private data worth, to you and to the companies willing to pay you for it?
In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
A look through the lens of neighbor discovery protocols reveals significant potential to improve electronic contact-tracing accuracy.
Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.
Developer tools that use a neural machine learning model to make predictions about previously unseen code.
Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?
How do we measure progress towards CS for All?
Confidential Computing Conquers Hacks
Protecting data while it is in use, rather than at rest or in flight.
Framing the Description of the Shrinking Pipeline
The shrinking pipeline refers to the low percentages of women earning computer science academic degrees and holding faculty positions.
Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight Global Wildfires
New technologies are being deployed to predict, monitor, and fight wildfires as their frequency and ferocity grow.
Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
Original Roman Pocket Calculators are Extremely Rare
As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.
Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities
Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.
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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