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Opinion Jan 1 2018

Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility

A dramatic drop in the public view of Tech, a term that I use to refer both to computing technology and the community that generates that technology, has accompanied the recent recognition of the adverse societal consequences of computing.

Moshe Y. Vardi

News Jan 1 2018

The New Jobs

As automation takes on more and more tasks, what will human workers do?

Marina Krakovsky

News Jan 1 2018

Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights

A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.

Gregory Mone

Practice Jan 1 2018

Network Applications Are Interactive

The network era requires new models, with interactions instead of algorithms.

Antony Alappatt

Network Applications Are Interactive, illustration

Practice Jan 1 2018

Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing

Ordinary users need tools that automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject.

Peter Alvaro and Severine Tymon

Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing, illustration

Research and Advances Jan 1 2018

Decentralized Blockchain-Based Electronic Marketplaces

In a decentralized marketplace, buyers and sellers transact directly, without manipulation by intermediary platforms.

Hemang Subramanian

Decentralized Blockchain- Based Electronic Marketplaces, illustration

Research and Advances Jan 1 2018

Once a meme gets popular, it will have to evolve to keep being popular.

Michele Coscia

Popularity Spikes Hurt Future Chances for Viral Propagation of Protomemes, illustrative photo

Opinion Jan 1 2018

Defining American Greatness: IBM from Watson to Trump

Reflections on a firm that encapsulated the American Century.

Thomas Haigh

Opinion Jan 1 2018

Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do For You . . .

Seeking more effective strategies for training and nurturing CS postdocs to ensure their success.

Opinion Jan 1 2018

Technology and the Failure of the University

Considering the double-edged sword of learning technologies in various academic settings.

Henry C. Lucas

Technology and the Failure of the University, illustrative photo

Research and Advances Jan 1 2018

Information Hiding: Challenges For Forensic Experts

The practice of hiding ill-gotten data in digital objects is rising among cyber thieves. New initiatives serve to educate, train, and thwart these activities.

Wojciech Mazurczyk and Steffen Wendzel

Information Hiding: Challenges for Forensic Experts, illustrative photo

News Jan 1 2018

ACM Code of Ethics: A Guide For Positive Action

THE ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (the Code) is being updated by the Code Update Task Force in conjunction with the ACM's Committee on Professional Ethics. The Code was initially written in 1992, and this is the first update since then.

News Dec 5 2017

The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies

Quantum computing could fundamentally break cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and throw markets into turmoil.

Logan Kugler

Considering the security of cryptocurrencies in a quantum computing world.

Opinion Dec 1 2017

Computing Is the Secret Ingredient (well, Not So Secret)

Computer science is both a powerful enabler of rapid advances in all intellectual fields and a disruptor driving furious revolutions in commerce and society worldwide.

Andrew A. Chien

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2017

Building Tools to Help Students Learn to Program

Philip Guo summarizes his first three years of research into building tools to support those learning computer programming.

Philip Guo

Research and Advances Dec 1 2017

Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, and Illogical Logic

Cyber deterrence, like nuclear deterrence, depends on our adversaries being rational enough to be deterred by our threats but us not by theirs.

Martin E. Hellman

Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, and Illogical Logic, illustration

Research and Advances Dec 1 2017

Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment

Even when surrounded by ubiquitous computing, humans should be encouraged to do what they do better than machines.

Ramiro Montealegre and Wayne F. Cascio

Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment, illustration

Opinion Dec 1 2017

Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education

Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.

Louise Ann Lyon and Jill Denner

Community Colleges: A Resource for Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education, illustrative photo

Opinion Dec 1 2017

Grooming the Leaders of Tomorrow

Former Stanford University president John Hennessy is the academic architect behind the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program.

Leah Hoffmann

Opinion Dec 1 2017

Now For Something Entirely Different

This column is about three books I have just read. Two get at the proliferation of wrong but persuasive assertions about the past, present, or future. The third appeals to logic and humility.

Vinton G. Cerf

News Dec 1 2017

Parallel Computational Thinking

Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Parallel Computational Thinking, illustration

News Dec 1 2017

Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential

New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.

Don Monroe

Practice Dec 1 2017

Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

John Regehr and Peter Bailis

Opinion Dec 1 2017

The Death of Big Software

We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.

Stephen J. Andriole

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