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Why People Post Benevolent and Malicious Comments Online
Explaining motivations for online comments, this study looks to help establish a positive, nonthreatening online comment culture.
Hidden In-Game Intelligence in NBA Players’ Tweets
Sentiment analysis helps detect NBA players' pre-game moods from their tweets and predict their on-court performance.
Inductive Programming Meets the Real World
Inductive programming can liberate users from performing tedious and repetitive tasks.
Technical Perspective: Treating Networks Like Programs
"Software Dataplane Verification" takes existing static checking of networks to a new level by checking the real code in the forwarding path of a Click router using classical software verification tools, and not just a model of router software as in previous work.
Software Dataplane Verification
We present the result of working iteratively on two tasks: designing a domain-specific verification tool for packet-processing software, while trying to identify a minimal set of restrictions that packet-processing software must satisfy in order to be verification-friendly.
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Fred Brooks reflects on his career.
How Men Can Help Women in CS; Winning ‘Computing’s Nobel Prize’
Valerie Barr suggests how men can better promote women in computing, while Michael Stonebraker shares how it feels to receive the top honor in the computer science field.
Software Patents Are Falling Down
Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's new test for patentable subject matter.
Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety
Examining the effects of electronic health records on the safety of patients in medical facilities.
ACM's new CEO lays out some brief thoughts on the future of the world's leading professional computing society in the hope of eliciting reactions and suggestions.
I continue to look for ways to preserve digital information over long periods of time. Imagine storing petabytes of information in vials containing dried DNA and using robots to retrieve it.
Programming in K-12 Science Classrooms
Introducing students to visual programming as a pathway to text-based programming.
The potential for a Sino-American cyber arms control agreement is intriguing, despite three very troubling flaws.
Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
What Can Be Done About Gender Diversity in Computing?: A Lot!
The 2015 Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing is expected to bring together more than 12,000 — mostly female — computer scientists! But this impressive number should not be taken to mean all is well on the gender-diversity front. Far from it!
The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum equaled and perhaps outperformed the previous two. It was also, however, a poignant event because we were reminded of the ephemeral nature of our human lives.
A growing number of companies are taking out cybersecurity insurance policies to protect themselves from the costs of data breaches.
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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