Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future
The most dramatic chess match of the 20th century was the May 1997 rematch between the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and world champion Garry Kasparov, which Deep Blue won.…
January 2012 - Vol. 55 No. 1
Features
Opinion Letters to the editor
Software Engineering Is Engineering
I was confounded by the conclusion of Michael Davis's Viewpoint "Will Software Engineering Ever Be Engineering?" (Nov. 2011), mainly because anything I can…
Early in 2011, IEEE Computer Society President Sorel Reisman and I began discussing how IEEE-CS and ACM could work …
FY11 was a defining year for ACM as the largest educational and scientific computing society in the world. Many of the initiatives we have set forth over the last few…
Understanding CS1 Students; Defective Software
Mark Guzdial writes about why teachers must grasp introductory CS students' theories about computing. Bertrand Meyer argues for the necessity of analyzing large-scale…
Opinion CACM online
eBooks Will Abound in the ACM Digital Library
ACM is preparing to offer a new and exciting member benefit for 2012; eBooks accessible via the ACM Digital Library! Expanding the eBooks Collections in the ACM Learning…
Better Medicine Through Machine Learning
Computers that tease out patterns from clinical data could improve patient diagnosis and care.
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
International law has always been a murky and Byzantine area. However, the Internet and digital technology have raised the stakes, the risks, and the challenges.
The centennial celebrations of Alan Turing's birth might help turn a quiet British genius into an iconic global hero.
Researchers untangle the complex web of Apple's global supply chain — and offer lessons for managers and policymakers trying to chart the future course of U.S.…
Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
Opinion Law and technology
The Yin and Yang of Copyright and Technology
Examining the recurring conflicts between copyright and technology from piano rolls to domain-name filtering.
Opinion The business of software
Observations on cognitive diversity and team performance.
Opinion Historical reflections
The IBM PC: From Beige Box to Industry Standard
Looking back at three decades of PC platform evolution.
Opinion Viewpoint
Interfaces For the Ordinary User: Can We Hide Too Much?
Increasing the visibility and access to underlying file structure on consumer devices can vastly improve the user experience.
News Interview
An Interview with Stephen A. Cook
Stephen A. Cook, winner of the 1982 A.M. Turing Award, reflects on his career.
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet
Networks without effective AQM may again be vulnerable to congestion collapse.
Decoupling a logical device from its physical implementation offers many compelling advantages.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Looking past the systems people use, they target the people using the systems.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Flexible Experimentation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Virtual testbeds model them by seamlessly integrating physical, simulated, and emulated sensor nodes and radios in real time.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Long-Term Confidentiality of PKI
How to guarantee files encrypted and transmitted today stay confidential for years to come.
Research and Advances Review articles
(Computer) Vision Without Sight
Computer vision holds the key for the blind or visually impaired to explore the visual world.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Where Do People Draw Lines?
Computer graphics once focused exclusively on realism. The field eventually broadened to include other pictorial…
Research and Advances Research highlights
This paper presents the results of a study in which artists made line drawings intended to convey specific 3D shapes.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Content-Centric Networking
Much has changed in the 50 years since the invention of packet switching and the early network designs and deployments that …
Research and Advances Research highlights
Current network use is dominated by content distribution and retrieval yet current networking protocols are designed for conversations between hosts. We present…
