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Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?
Using software to control potentially unsafe systems requires the use of new software and system engineering approaches.
Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide — not a lecturer.
Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
Toward ML-Centric Cloud Platforms
Exploring the opportunities to use ML, the possible designs, and our experience with Microsoft Azure.
Technical Perspective: Lighting the Way to Visual Privacy
"Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED," presents a new technique to address the issue of cameras capturing proprietary or private information—it stops most digital cameras from recording a useful image while the scene remains visible to human eyes.
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
New MacArthur Fellow Takes Aim at Online Harassment, Doxing
Danielle Citron, a privacy scholar who has done pioneering work in combating hate crimes and other abuses in cyberspace, has been named a 2019 MacArthur fellow.
Dependability in Edge Computing
Edge computing holds great promise, and almost as many challenges in deployment.
Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal
There is a common belief that grades in computer science courses are bimodal. We devised a psychology experiment to understand why CS educators hold this belief.
How the Internet Spans the Globe
The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.
New discoveries answer an old question.
Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
Cracks in Open Collaboration in Universities
Universities and the interchange of scholars and students in international collaborations have long played an important role in knitting a fabric of human relationships and shared understanding. This fabric is fraying rapidly.
Publishing one's paper at a prestigious conference has become the standard way to build professional credentials, yet the dominance of conference publication comes at a cost.
In Search of the Shortest Possible Schedule
Bertrand Meyer considers how to speed up software engineering.
Technical Perspective: Is There a Geek Gene?
"Evidence that Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal" uses empirical methods to determine if belief in innate differences may explain why CS teachers see a bimodality in grades.
How to defend intimate details and card data while shopping online this season.
Companies are learning that bug bounty programs are just one aspect of good security protocols.
Should Researchers Use Data from Security Breaches?
Evaluating the arguments for and against using digital data derived from security breaches.
API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.
Engaging Future Generations of ACM Leaders
As a volunteer-driven organization, ACM's future health depends not only on appealing to a diverse membership, but also on creating a pipeline of future leaders.
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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