Smart Cities Begin To Face Security Concerns
"The attack surface is growing faster than the protections."
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where they are encountered.
Nae’s Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?
Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry.
Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.
The Future of the Internet of Things
The IoT can become ubiquitous worldwide — if the pursuit of systemic trustworthiness can overcome the potential risks.
User-Centric Distributed Solutions For Privacy-Preserving Analytics
How can cryptography empower users with sensitive data to access large-scale computing platforms in a privacy-preserving manner?
BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
Computing History Beyond the U.K. and U.S.: Selected Landmarks from Continental Europe
It is past time to acknowledge 400 years of European computational innovation from non-English-speaking scientists and engineers.
Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
Government-sanctioned and market-based anti-piracy measures can both mitigate economic harm from piracy.
Fostering Creativity Through Computing
How creative thinking tools and computing can be used to support creative human endeavors.
Authentication Using Pulse-Response Biometrics
We propose a new biometric based on the human body's response to an electric square pulse signal, called pulse-response.
Celebrating 50 Years of the Turing Award
To celebrate the first 50 years of the A.M. Turing Award, ACM is sponsoring a yearlong series of programs, as highlighted on the Turing 50th website http://www.acm.org/turing-award-50.
Social and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things
"Denial-of-service" cyberattacks require us to up our technical game in Internet security and safety. They also expose the need to frame and enforce social and ethical behavior, privacy, and appropriate use in Internet environments.
Liberal Arts Academia Wants You!
Janet Davis makes a plea to CS practitioners to consider even a short teaching stint.
Model learning emerges as an effective method for black-box state machine models of hardware and software components.
Technology For the Most Effective Use of Mankind
In a keynote address (see https://goo.gl/RwkwK1) at the 2016 meeting of the Computing Research Association, Kentaro Toyama argued that persistent societal challenges, such as socio-economic inequality, do not have technology-centric solutions.
The ACM Future of Computing Academy
I am pleased to announce the establishment of the ACM Future of Computing Academy (ACM-FCA), created to bring together talented young professionals from various computing disciplines to address the most pressing challenges facing the global computing community and society at large.
Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central It Departments
Central IT needs to guide functional areas and departments toward effective operational and procurement practices.
Exponential Laws of Computing Growth
Moore's Law is one small component in an exponentially growing planetary computing ecosystem.
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing
Reflections on pioneering code-breaking efforts.
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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