Mastering Concurrent Computing through Sequential Thinking
A 50-year history of concurrency.
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Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?
The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.
Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?
Industry's dreams and fears for this new technology.
In Search of the Shortest Possible Schedule
Bertrand Meyer considers how to speed up software engineering.
Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.
Getting High School, College Students Interested in CS
Mark Guzdial considers how few U.S. high school students take computer science, while Robin K. Hill shares what she's learned in teaching first-year college computing students.
Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
Welcome to the India Region Special Section
The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.
Turbocharging Database Query Processing and Testing
Query processing and optimization are implemented in all contemporary database systems. Indian universities have played a visible role in addressing important, unsolved issues.
Digital Transformation in the Indian Government
The Digital India program is centered on the vision of offering digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, providing services and enabling the digital empowerment of citizens.
CSpathshala: Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools
Some 300,000 students from 750 schools in 11 states throughout India are learning computing through "unplugged" activities as part of CSpathshala, ACM India's education initiative.
Technology Interventions for Road Safety and Beyond
Inadequate road infrastructure, increasing vehicle population, and poor driver training make a chaotic and often deadly mix in India. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies may improve the situation.
Computing Research at Tata Consultancy Services
Research and innovation have played a unique role in Tata Consultancy Services' journey from a computing division to its current place in global technology consulting.
Creative Disruption in Fintech from Sri Lanka
The farsighted entry into financial technology, and experience in mobilizing local talent, contributed to the early success of MillenniumIT.
Aspiring Minds has developed a scalable platform to test the job skills of millions of graduates entering the labor market in India every year.
Designing ICT Interventions for Women in Pakistan
In order to ensure entire populations benefit from the deployment and adoption of ICTs an understanding of the specific needs and challenges faced by women is imperative.
What if you had the superpower to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds, a multiple-choice question with a billion choices? The objective in extreme classification is to develop algorithms with such capabilities.
Speech and natural language processing of Indic languages is hugely important and relevant in India, where approximately 420-440 languages are in active use.
The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media in India
Online social media services have had a profound impact in India, increasing digital literacy, disseminating more local language content, and more. The services have had negative effects as well.
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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