Focusing on Teacher Needs in K-12 CS Education
CS educational needs in K–12 are greater today than ever before. A lack of access to CS among a range of demographics continues to persist. Enter the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA).
January 2016 - Vol. 59 No. 1
Features
For the past month, I have been on the road in Latin America. Everywhere, I came away with a sense there is strong interest in Internet use in business, education, government services, and applications for the general public.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
In his letter to the editor (Nov. 2015) on Keith Kirkpatrick's news story "The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars" (Aug. 2015), Hans Grünberger attacked my proposal for ethics review boards. The letter mischaracterizes my beliefs and my proposal.
In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM's officers.
In the following pages you will find a year filled with determined initiatives, new services, and "firsts" designed to increase the value of your ACM membership. But accomplishments are only half the story.
Controlling Cyber Arms, and Creating New Legos
John Arquilla identifies flaws in a potential U.S.-China cyber arms control pact, while Joel C. Adams suggests an unusual way of preserving computer science history.
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.
Gene Amdahl, who formulated Amdahl's Law and worked with IBM and others on developments related to mainframe computing, died recently from complications of pneumonia.
Opinion Law and technology
Assessing the promises and dangers of biometric identity plans.
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Extrapolating from Moore’s Law
Behind and beyond Microsoft, Intel, and Apple.
Opinion Historical reflections
Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol
Considering the evolving concept of programming.
Opinion Viewpoint
Unbalanced Data Leads to Obsolete Economic Advice
Few computer scientists and technological workers worry about their role in the economies of their industries and their countries. Background supplementary material available.
Opinion Viewpoint
Why Knowledge Representation Matters
A personal story: From philosophy to software.
Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Knowing where you are in space and time promises a deeper understanding of neighbors, ecosystems, and the environment.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Open Data and Civic Apps: First-Generation Failures, Second-Generation Improvements
Developers first need compelling incentives and committed management.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
The Building Blocks of a Cloud Strategy: Evidence from Three SaaS Providers
Before looking to enter a cloud-based market, weigh industry characteristics and one's own stock of design capital.
Research and Advances Review articles
Algebraic Fingerprints For Faster Algorithms
Algorithmic solutions to tough computational problems are making an impressive comeback.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: High-Performance Virtualization: Are We Done?
"Bare-Metal Performance for Virtual Machines with Exitless Interrupts" shows how to enable a virtual machine to attain "bare metal" performance from high-speed network interface cards.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Bare-Metal Performance For Virtual Machines with Exitless Interrupts
We present ExitLess Interrupts (ELI), a software-only approach for handling interrupts within guest virtual machines directly and securely.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Enlisting the Power of the Crowd
An important contribution of "Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd" is the observation that by using the crowd for the collection of new data, we are departing from the classical closed word assumption, which underlies traditional database systems.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd
Hybrid human/computer database systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating the crowd. Such systems raise many implementation questions. To address the issues, we develop statistical tools that enable users and systems developers to reason about query completeness.
Opinion Last byte
Imagine a 500-square-by-500-square red/black ice checkerboard with walls along all four edges.
