Openism, IPism, Fundamentalism, and Pragmatism
Ownership of intellectual property is fast becoming a battleground in the 21st century, with today's economy being increasingly driven by large corporations dependent on these intangible assets.
August 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 8
Features
ACM and the Professional Programmer
ACM has not grown in a way commensurate with the evident growth of programmers in the profession. The question is whether and how ACM can adapt its activities and offerings to increase the participation of these professionals.
Why the U.S. Is Not Ready For Mandatory CS Education
Mark Guzdial considers the consequences of requiring all schoolchildren to study computer science.
Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.
Surgical Robots Deliver Care More Precisely
Computer-controlled robotic surgical systems and tumor-targeting radiation systems provide a greater level of precision in treatment than doctors alone can provide.
Opinion Privacy and security
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.
Opinion Education
Fostering Computational Literacy in Science Classrooms
An agent-based approach to integrating computing in secondary-school science courses.
Opinion Viewpoint
Researching the Robot Revolution
Considering a program for cross-disciplinary research between computer scientists and economists studying the effects of computers on work.
Opinion Viewpoint
Seeking to enrich the search experience by allowing for extra time and alternate resources.
Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
To destabilize terrorist organizations, the <code>STONE</code> algorithms identify a set of operatives whose removal would maximally reduce lethality.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Example-Based Learning in Computer-Aided STEM Education
Example-based reasoning techniques developed for programming languages also help automate repetitive tasks in education.
Research and Advances Review articles
Efficient Maximum Flow Algorithms
Though maximum flow algorithms have a long history, revolutionary progress is still being made.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Getting Consensus For Data Replication
The following paper is a breakthrough in which the authors offer a formula to calculate the probability of reading data that was not written by one of the K most recent writes.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Quantifying Eventual Consistency with PBS
Eventual consistency is often "good enough" for practitioners given its latency and availability benefits. In this work, we explain this phenomenon and demonstrate that eventually consistent systems regularly return consistent data while providing lower latency than their strongly consistent counterparts.
Opinion Last byte
Consider two simple games played by Alice and Bob on a checkerboard or, more generally, on a graph. The games look different, but, as we know, looks can be deceiving . . .
