Turing’s Pre-War Analog Computers: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited
Turing's machines of 1936 were a purely mathematical notion, not an exploration of possible blueprints for physical calculators.
Security and Privacy
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In Praise of Under-Specification?
It is interesting to contemplate whether the notion of under-specification that induces flexibility and anticipates new but unknown developments can be codified in a concrete way beyond the purely conceptual.
Data Science: Challenges and Directions
While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that.
Building the Future Communications of the ACM
The Communications of the ACM team is dynamic; a collection of passionate leaders, making change and creating the future CACM through the actions, initiatives, and goals that we are pursuing today. In that vein, here are some of my ambitions for the Future CACM.
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
Conference Organizers Say .s. Travel Ban Not A Disaster – Yet
Travel restrictions appear to have had minimal impact on conference attendance so far.
Jean E. Sammet, an American computer scientist who served as the first female president of ACM, passed away on May 21 at the age of 89.
Building a Brain May Mean Going Analog
Analog circuits consume less power per operation than CMOS technologies, and so should prove more efficient.
Reimagining the Avatar Dream: Modeling Social Identity in Digital Media
Explore the limits of using the computer to imagine yourself as whomever or whatever you want to be.
Information and communication technology patents are more influential on subsequent inventions than are other types of patents.
While this is not intended to be a dystopian rant, I feel strongly motivated to draw attention to the fragile and interdependent future we are creating through the use of programmable devices and systems.
Today’s Communications of the ACM
It is with great pleasure that I take the helm as the ninth Editor-in-Chief of Communications, the flagship publication and ACM's vessel for the most important and interesting happenings across the field of computing.
‘Generation CS’ Drives Growth in Enrollments
Undergraduates who understand the importance of computer science have been expanding the CS student cohort for more than a decade.
Cryptovirology: The Birth, Neglect, and Explosion of Ransomware
Recent attacks exploiting a known vulnerability continue a downward spiral of ransomware-related incidents.
Toward Oversight, and More Debate, of Cyber Weaponry
Policies and strategies that may lead to or initiate acts of cyberwar should be subject to scrutiny.
Ten Years at the Helm of Communications of the ACM
In January 2007, I undertook the task of revitalizing Communications of the ACM. Now, after 10 years at the helm of Communications, it is time for me to move on and for the magazine to get new leadership.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift that changed the world with his invention of the World Wide Web, Hypertext Transport Protocol, and Hypertext Markup Language.
The Scion Internet Architecture
Adhering to the end-to-end principle even more than the current Internet yields highly available point-to-point communication.
The Dynamics of Work-Family Conflict
Conflict is averted by separating work and family time and responsibility, as reflected in millions of tweets.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the formative years of the world wide web, and the challenges it now faces.
Open Access to Academic Research
One challenge associated with data and publication preservation is the creation of business models that can sustain long-duration archives. Considerable infrastructure must be maintained to ensure access to digital content over long periods of time and that has an underlying cost.
Balancing Teaching CS Efficiently with Motivating Students
Mark Guzdial suggests a new balance is needed in computer science education between discovery learning and direct instruction.
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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