Accompanying the national discussion about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), some questions have been raised about whether there really is a "STEM problem" when it comes to filling jobs in the U.S.
December 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 12
Features
Does Innovation Create or Destroy Jobs?
Do we know whether innovation creates or destroys jobs? The answer is yes to both aspects. What should be fairly obvious is that new jobs created by innovation often require new skills and some displaced workers may not be able to learn them.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
On the Significance of Turing’s Test
Contrary to what the first sentence of Alan Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" might suggest, the paper was not about the question "Can machines think?"
Meeting Student and Teacher Needs in Computing Education
Mark Guzdial reports on the 2014 meeting of the ACM Education Council, where updates from its global representatives led to action plans.
Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.
ACM’s Turing Award Prize Raised to $1 Million
The funding level for the ACM A.M. Turing Award is now $1 million. Google Inc. will provide all funding for this award, recognized as the highest honor in computer science and often referred to as the field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Opinion Global computing
The Internet That Facebook Built
The on-ramp might appear free but exiting takes a toll.
Opinion The profession of IT
A new book inspires a reflection on what it means to be a whole, competent, and effective professional — and may portend a wave of disruption in education.
Opinion Broadening participation
What technology companies, especially startups, need to know about building great places to work — for her and him — in the digital age.
Opinion Viewpoint
Making the Case For a ‘Manufacturing Execution System’ For Software Development
Seeking to improve information integration throughout the manufacturing process.
The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development?
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Computationally Modeling Human Emotion
Computer models of emotion inform theories of human intelligence and advance human-centric applications.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
GPUfs: The Case For Operating System Services on GPUs
The GPUfs file system layer for GPU software makes core operating system abstractions available to GPU code.
Research and Advances Review articles
HACs offer a new science for exploring the computational and human aspects of society.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Rethinking Caches For Throughput Processors
As GPUs have become mainstream parallel processing engines, many applications targeting GPUs now have data locality more amenable to traditional caching. The architecture described in "Learning Your Limits" has a number of virtues.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Learning Your Limit: Managing Massively Multithreaded Caches Through Scheduling
This paper studies the effect of accelerating highly parallel workloads with significant locality on a massively multithreaded GPU.
Opinion Last byte
This year's CNRS Gold Medal recipient, Gérard Berry, discusses his roots in computer science, why computers are stupid, and how he has helped to simplify programming.
