With an aging population and a shrinking workforce, Europe needs to tap artificial intelligence, 5G wireless connectivity, quantum computing, and other ICT technologies that could drive the next step change in productivity.
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A Demographic Snapshot of the IT Workforce in Europe
The number of ICT specialists in the EU workforce has grown over 36% in the last 10 years. This increase helps explain why ICT employment has resisted the effects of the region's overall financial crisis.
Europe’s Well-Connected Consumers
Europeans have mixed feelings about the direction in which ICT is headed.
ACM Europe Council’s Best Paper Awards
The ACM Europe Council's Best Paper Awards recognize authors of outstanding technical contributions to ACM-sponsored conferences held in Europe.
Informatics as a Fundamental Discipline for the 21st Century
Informatics should be recognized by all as a truly foundational discipline that plays a significant role in education for the 21st century.
The European Perspective on Responsible Computing
Europe is at the forefront of the regulation and reflections on digital systems through its institutional bodies.
Women Are Needed in STEM: European Policies and Incentives
In Europe, gender balance in research and innovation is understood as a social justice and equality issue.
Toward a European Exascale Ecosystem: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
European supercomputing infrastructures represent a strategic resource for understanding and responding to the increasing challenges European citizens will face in the years to come.
Connected Things Connecting Europe
Modern embedded system microcontroller and transceiver technology advancements have brought forth the kinds of systems we have defined for some time in Europe as "embedded intelligence."
Considering the possible implications for free trade, traditionally based on non-digital goods, for a modern global economy that is increasingly based on intangible products and services enabled by digital technologies.
The Web Is Missing an Essential Part of Infrastructure: An Open Web Index
A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine—the index—from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public infrastructure open to everyone.
The Fine Line Between Coercion and Care
Employers monitoring their workforce must balance productivity and security considerations with employee privacy and welfare concerns.
In (Virtual) Defense of Democracy
There are two ways to proceed with political discourse in cyberspace, if the trolls are to be tamed.
Owning Computing’s Environmental Impact
It is time for the computing community to face up to computing's growing environmental impact—and take responsibility for it.
The Internet and the World Wide Web are dependent on the stewardship of a key set of non-profit institutions.
Smoothing the Path to Computing; Pondering Uses for Big Data
Members of the Computing Research Association suggest ways to broaden participation in computer science, while Saurabh Bagchi looks at use cases for big data.
Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting them from injury.
How researchers are improving energy storage devices for power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind.
Demand is expected to spike over the next few years, leading to higher prices and international trade issues.
Questioning a New Intellectual Property Right for Press Publishers
Considering the implications of the "link tax" provision of the proposed EU Directive for the Digital Single Market for traditional press publishers.
Potential ‘Dark Sides’ of Leisure Technology Use in Youth
Time for balanced reflections on technology.
An Interview with William Hugh Murray
A discussion of the rapidly evolving realm of practical cyber security.
From Computational Thinking to Computational Action
Envisioning computing education that both teaches and empowers.
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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