Defending the Orbital Internet
Hypersonic space debris threatens communications beyond the atmosphere.
Security and Privacy
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Open Collaboration in an Age of Distrust
We are manifestly in a new era of international relations—"An Age of Distrust"—where the trend toward increased trade and integration has stalled, if not reversed.
Innovation for Jobs (i4j.info) recently published a book describing a new, people-centered view of work. Rather than organizing work around tasks, the idea is to organize work around people and their skills.
Are We Having An Ethical Crisis in Computing?
The computing field seems to be going through another image crisis these days. Many view this as an ethical crisis. I am dubious of the diagnosis.
Answering Children’s Questions About Computers
Judy Robertson addresses the disconnect between what children are taught about computers and what they actually wish to know.
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
UCF’s 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision
A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.
Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation
"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account when choosing cryptographic parameters.
Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.
Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.
Autonomous Tools and Design: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning
In addition to having a detailed understanding of the artifacts they intend to create, designers need to guide the software tools they use.
Deception, Identity, and Security: The Game Theory of Sybil Attacks
Classical mathematical game theory helps to evolve the emerging logic of identity in the cyber world.
Smarter Voice Assistants Recognize Your Favorite Brands—and Health
People often surrender their data privacy to their continuously listening voice assistants without understanding the implications.
Uncertainty in Current and Future Health Wearables
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Promoting Common Sense, Reality, Dependable Engineering
Peter G. Neumann traces a lifetime devoted to identifying computing risks.
Self-Authenticating Identifiers
The peculiar property that makes public key cryptography interesting is that you must use one key to encrypt and the other to decrypt.
Securing Agent 111, and the Job of Software Architect
John Arquilla describes the new state of cyberspying, while Yegor Bugayenko considers the importance of a software architect to development projects.
Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?
How to Live in a Post-Meltdown and -Spectre World
Learn from the past to prepare for the next battle.
A Century-Long Commitment to Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Society
A series of reports promises the general public a technologically accurate view of the state of AI and its societal implications.
Citizen-led initiatives via social media yield political influence, including even with a country's top political 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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