Technology Has Social Consequences
A conference paper submission constitutes privileged communication. In theory, reviewers should immediately…
May 2011 - Vol. 54 No. 5
Features
Opinion Letters to the editor
Preserve Privacy in Statistical Correlations
Many thanks for Cynthia Dwork's article "A Firm Foundation for Private Data Analysis" (Jan. 2011), explaining why, in trying to …
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers…
Stonebraker on Data Warehouses
Data warehouses are not only increasing in size and complexity, but also in their importance to business. Michael Stonebraker shares 10 key ideas on the topic.
Opinion CACM online
Let ACM Help You Find Your Next Job ‘Online’
For the most coveted jobs and for organizations looking to hire experienced and talented workers, few online resources are more valuable than ACM's own Career and Job…
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and…
Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters in the…
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.
Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.
Opinion Economic and business dimensions
Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, and Privacy
Studying how privacy regulation might impact economic activity on the advertising-supported Internet.
Opinion Education
Reaching Learners Beyond Our Hallowed Halls
Rethinking the design of computer science courses and broadening the definition of computing education both on and off campus.
Opinion Law and technology
Bell Labs and Centralized Innovation
In early 1935, a man named Clarence Hickman had a secret machine, about six feet tall, standing in his office. Hickman was …
News Interview
An Interview with Steve Furber
Steve Furber, designer of the seminal BBC Microcomputer System and the widely used ARM microprocessor, reflects on his career.
Opinion Viewpoint
The Importance of Reviewing the Code
Highlighting the significance of the often overlooked underlying software used to produce research results.
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Brain-Computer Interfaces For Communication and Control
The brain's electrical signals enable people without muscle control to physically interact with the world.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Energy efficiency is the new fundamental limiter of processor performance, way beyond numbers of processors.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Privacy-Preserving Network Forensics
Privacy-preserving attribution of IP packets can help balance forensics with an individual's right to privacy.
Research and Advances Review articles
In contrast to popular belief, proving termination is not always impossible.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: <i>Caveat Emptor</i>
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products are…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives have…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Images Everywhere Looking For Models
About 5,000 images per minute are uploaded to the photo-sharing site http://www.flickr.com/; over …
Research and Advances Research highlights
Self-Similarity-Based Image Denoising
The search for efficient image denoising methods is still a valid challenge at the crossing of functional analysis and statistics. In spite of the sophistication of the…
Opinion Last byte
Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is (as yet) unsolved. In each, the issue is how your intuition matches up…
Research and Advances Contributed articles: Virtual extension
Challenges and Business Models For Mobile Location-Based Services and Advertising
Mobile advertising will become more pervasive and profitable, but not before addressing key technical and business challenges.
Research and Advances Contributed articles: Virtual extension
Is Open Source Security a Myth?
We became accustomed to acquiring software by procuring licenses for a proprietary, immaterial object. However,…
Research and Advances Contributed articles: Virtual extension
Invisible Work in Standard Bibliometric Evaluation of Computer Science
Most of a computer scientist's production can go uncounted if a standard bibliographic service is used.
