Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.
Security and Privacy
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Rethinking Security For Internet Routing
Combine simple whitelisting technology, notably prefix filtering, in most BGP-speaking routers with weaker cryptographic protocols.
Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers
The most important consideration is how the collection of measurements may affect a person's well-being.
A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security
With the implantation of software-driven devices comes unique privacy and security threats to the human body.
Mobile Computing and Political Transformation
Connecting increased mobile phone usage with political and market liberalization.
Risks of Automation: A Cautionary Total-System Perspective of Our Cyberfuture
Where automation is inevitable, let's do it right.
Just because you have been doing it the same way doesn't mean you are doing it the right way.
Advances in biometric authentication are finally pushing the technology into the mainstream.
Dynamic Presentation Consistency Issues in Smartphone Mapping Apps
Smartphone mapping apps routinely fail to follow centuries-old mapmaking dynamic consistency principles and practices.
Reconciling Quantum Physics with Math
Mathematicians explore the root of many problems in developing a proof for the Kadison-Singer problem.
Technical Perspective: Jupiter Rising
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous, exhibits strong regularity within its structure, and when its bandwidth needs exceed the capabilities of those of any available equipment vendor.
No Easy Answers in the Fight Over iPhone Decryption
A look at the legal background and future possibilities for an issue that is likely to reoccur.
‘For All’ in ‘Computer Science For All’
Seeking to expand inclusiveness in computer science education.
Helping Conference Attendees Better Understand Research Presentations
Sharing lessons learned from a lecture program for making technical material more accessible to conference attendees.
Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.
Academic Rankings Considered Harmful!
Academic rankings, in general, provide highly misleading ways to inform academic decision making by individuals. Using such rankings for academic decision making is letting third-party business interests influence our academic values.
To those who have spoken for and who espouse an open and welcoming Internet now falls the task of keeping it that way. To do so will require more than words and argument.
When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
A Presidential Policy Directive With Little Direction
Cybersecurity is integral in nature in a very connected world; the insecurity of some contributes to the vulnerability of all.
Skills For Success at Different Stages of an IT Professional’s Career
The skills and knowledge that earn promotions are not always enough to ensure success in the new position.
Smart Cities: Concepts, Architectures, Research Opportunities
The aim is to improve cities' management of natural and municipal resources and in turn the quality of life of their citizens.
During a trip to China, Jason Hong watches for signs of new technologies.
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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