Opinion Department: Editor's letter
Large-scale funding enables examination of larger questions that cross problem spaces, systems, abstractions, even fields. I believe the need for large investments has never been greater.
April 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 4
Features
Bootstrap World has developed online courses in programming, among other subjects, but what makes Bootstrap World so memorable for me is that the team has focused heavily on accessibility.
Opinion Departments
ACM is under significant pressure to move from a subscription-based to an open access publishing model. Such a transition is exceedingly challenging and would threaten ACM's financial viability, a risk that must be taken seriously.
Opinion Letters to the editor
Predicting Failure of the University
Henry C. Lucas, Jr.'s Viewpoint "Technology and the Failure of the University" (Jan. 2018) was a tour de force of unfounded assertions.
Fostering Inclusion, Keeping the Net Neutral
ACM-W chair Jodi Tims offers ways everyone can promote inclusiveness, while Daniel A. Reed assesses the debate over Net neutrality.
Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.
Chips for Artificial Intelligence
Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.
Artificial (Emotional) Intelligence
Enabled by advances in computing power and neural networks, machines are getting better at recognizing and dealing with human emotions.
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Business Ecosystems: How Do They Matter for Innovation?
Considering the significant interrelationship of innovation, corporate strategy, and public policy for business ecosystems.
Opinion Viewpoint
Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment
Exploring the connection qualities between smartphones and their users.
The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.
Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?
It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.
Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Building a Smart City: Lessons from Barcelona
Smart Internet-based infrastructure is one thing but will be ignored without the public's continuing engagement.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google
For a static analysis project to succeed, developers must feel they benefit from and enjoy using it.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Realizing the Potential of Data Science
Data science promises new insights, helping transform information into knowledge that can drive science and industry.
Research and Advances Review articles
Bridgeware: The Air-Gap Malware
The challenge of combatting malware designed to breach air-gap isolation in order to leak data.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Expressive Probabilistic Models and Scalable Method of Moments
The authors of "Learning Topic Models—Provably and Efficiently," developed a new method for fitting topic models and at large scale.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Learning Topic Models – Provably and Efficiently
This article shows that some new theoretical algorithms that have provable guarantees can be adapted to yield highly practical tools for topic modeling.
Opinion Last byte
Two teams, blue and red, play a game in which Red has a submarine we call October, as in Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October.
