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Opinion Mar 1 2021

Around the World: (The First Time) with <i>Communications'</i> Regional Special Sections

In 2017, we made the strategic decision to launch Communications' Regional Special Sections. Next month (April 2021), we will publish the special section for Arabia, completing our circumnavigation of the world. The special sections have emerged as a "multicultured splendor."

Andrew A. Chien

Opinion Mar 1 2021

The People vs. Tech

Today, the top seven companies in the S&P 500 index are all tech companies. Large companies wield power, and that often leads to a clash between these companies and "The People," that is, with governments.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Careers Mar 1 2021

Enabling Renewable Energy Through Smarter Grids

We have enormous power to change the world through the systems we create. A world with clean air and water in which every person is respected seems like something we can all aspire to.

Graham Oakes

News Mar 1 2021

Edmund M. Clarke (1945–2020)

Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr., a celebrated American academic who developed methods for mathematically proving the correctness of computer systems, died on December 22, 2020 at the age of 75 from complications of COVID-19.

Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford

A.M. Turing Award Laureate Edmund M. Clarke

Research and Advances Mar 1 2021

Gender Trends in Computer Science Authorship

Under optimistic projection models, gender parity is forecast to be reached after 2100.

Lucy Lu Wang, Gabriel Stanovsky, Luca Weihs, and Oren Etzioni

girl sitting alone at desk in front of a large window

Research and Advances Mar 1 2021

Educational Interventions and Female Enrollment in IT Degrees

A study of female students enrolled in IT degrees in Australia traces how programs influenced decision making.

Andreea Molnar, Therese Keane, and Rosemary Stockdale

Research and Advances Mar 1 2021

Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques

The evolution of and countermeasures for existing reconnaissance techniques.

Wojciech Mazurczyk and Luca Caviglione

Opinion Mar 1 2021

Awakening

Some technical support will never change.

Brian Clegg

News Feb 25 2021

Is MFA Needed to Improve Security?

Considering the outlook for multi-factor authentication applications.

Keith Kirkpatrick | Commissioned by CACM Staff

An illustration of the use of multi-factor authentication.

BLOG@CACM Feb 12 2021

How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record

Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.

Mark Guzdial

News Feb 11 2021

ENIAC Turns 75

The first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer was introduced to the world on Valentine’s Day in 1946.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Feb 9 2021

Tracking the Hackers

Dissecting the SolarWinds hack.

David Geer | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Seals of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

BLOG@CACM Feb 8 2021

When Did the Digital Age Begin?

There is no clear answer.

Herbert Bruderer

BLOG@CACM Feb 5 2021

The Skills Students Gain in Online Learning

The Corona Year as an opportunity for science and engineering students to practice 21st century skills.

Orit Hazzan

News Feb 4 2021

The Scramble for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum computers are expected to undermine today's computer security.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Feb 2 2021

Eyes on the Skies

Fighting delivery drone privacy invasions.

Paul Marks

BLOG@CACM Feb 1 2021

Auditing AI and Autonomous Systems; Building an Infrastructure of Trust

How do we build trust? How can we systematically assure trust in our systems? How would auditing AI and autonomous systems contribute to this goal? Explaining how the world's most famous accounting/audit disaster—Enron—exemplifies the merits of Independent Audit and helps illustrate how a robust system of oversight is essential to building trust.

Ryan Carrier

Opinion Feb 1 2021

Driving the Cloud to True Zero Carbon

Climate change has come to the fore as a business concern, and this compels the business leaders of computing technology companies to be on the side of progress toward true zero carbon.

Andrew A. Chien

Opinion Feb 1 2021

Salary Disputes

In Moshe Vardi's "Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?," the short but woefully incomplete answer is that the wage premium for a Ph.D. in CS is simply too small to justify foregoing five years of industry-level salary.

CACM Staff

Feb 1 2021

Issues Arise When Time Goes Digital

Robin K. Hill considers why time can be "a pesky problem for computing."

Robin K. Hill

News Feb 1 2021

Technological Responses to COVID-19

Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Pratt Miller's LAAD disinfecting robot at Gerald R Ford International Airport

Opinion Feb 1 2021

CAPE: A Framework for Assessing Equity throughout the Computer Science Education Ecosystem

Examining both the leading indicators of equity in CS and the lagging indicators of student outcomes.

Carol L. Fletcher and Jayce R. Warner

Practice Feb 1 2021

Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default

A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta

CACM Staff

Research and Advances Feb 1 2021

DP-Cryptography: Marrying Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Emerging Applications

Synthesizing the emerging directions of research at the intersection of differential privacy and cryptography.

Sameer Wagh, Xi He, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, and Prateek Mittal

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