Cloud Security: A Gathering Storm
Users' trust in cloud systems is undermined by the lack of transparency in existing security policies.
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Is Fingerprint Security Reliable?
The strength of biometric locks on Apple's and Samsung's new phones may lie in their convenience.
Seeking personalized data-derived insights from analysis of our digital traces.
Security and Privacy For Augmented Reality Systems
AR systems pose potential security concerns that should be addressed before the systems become widespread.
For some, data collecting will always be more rewarding than data mining.
Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
The Internet Governance Ecosystem
Over the past decade, the Internet and its governance has become the topic of major discussion, debate, and controversy.
New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing
A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.
Programming Languages Are the Most Powerful, and Least Usable and Learnable User Interfaces
Programming languages are amazing, but too hard to use and learn.
New Focus For Robotics: Artificial Creativity
The founding director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech is exploring how creative robots can be.
Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
Taking an Age-Old Approach to i
Web and app designers need to be mindful of the changing capabilities of aging users.
Brands Take Advantage of Hci Technologies
Technologies demonstrated in motion pictures are coming to life for advertisers.
Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
The first steps have been taken toward enabling a computer to perceive one's thoughts.
Capturing and Structuring Data Mined from the Web
Kate Matsudaira considers not only how to mine data from the Web, but what to do with it once you have it.
Every time I see calendar dates like 2014, I feel as if I have been transported by time machine into the future. Isaac Asimov made some remarkably astute projections about 2014 in 1964, so what might he say today?
Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
Clarifying Human-Computer Interaction
Philip Guo teaches an undergrad through the use of examples.
‘master the Mainframe’ Contest Lures Next Generation to Big Iron
IBM's zEnterprise Academic Initiative is using a contest to spark student interest in coding for mainframes.
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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