How AI Is Changing Software Development
Artificial intelligence technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing will help build better software faster.
Systems and Networking
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Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.
Computer Models Help Fight Climate Change
Salt marsh modeling holds the potential to protect coastal locations from rising sea levels.
Stepping Stones in an Ocean of Data
An interview with science writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy,” Keith Devlin.
Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
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.
Technical Perspective: Mapping the Universe
"HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures" describes the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) framework, which uses a novel algorithmic structure to map code onto multiple supercomputer platforms, whether heterogeneous CPU/GPU or multi/many-core systems.
HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures
In this Research Highlight, we demonstrate the success of HACC on two very different machines, the CPU/GPU system Titan and the BG/Q systems Sequoia and Mira, attaining very high levels of scalable performance.
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
Pure Randomness Extracted from Two Poor Sources
Developments from several disparate areas of computer science provide "a huge jump, both technically and also quantitatively."
Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
Research For Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
How We Teach CS2All, and What to Do About Database Decay
Valerie Barr considers how to make computer science education meaningful and relevant to all, while a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory offers strategies to counter database decay.
Cell-Graphs: Image-Driven Modeling of Structure-Function Relationship
Cell-graph construction methods are best served when physics-driven and data-driven paradigms are joined.
Information and Misinformation on the Internet
The Internet influenced the decisions of voters in both the June 2016 U.K. referendum on European Union membership and the November 2016 U.S. elections. The disturbing aspect of these is the quantity of poor-quality content, the production of deliberately false information, and the reinforcement of bad information through the social media.
Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography
The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google is experimenting with its use for part of its data traffic.
Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children’s Well-Being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.
In Memoriam: Andrew Birrell 1951-2016
He specialized in "in the general area of operating systems and distributed systems, with occasional excursions into security."
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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