ACM’s Challenges and Opportunities
ACM held a strategic planning retreat last November. The motivation was the realization that the ecosystem that supports scholarly and professional societies is…
October 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 10
Features
The prospect of increasingly unconventional computing methods that may force us to rethink how we analyze problems for purposes of getting computers to solve them for us.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
Responsible Programming Not a Technical Issue
Vinton G. Cerf's "Responsible Programming" (July 2014) raised the interesting question of whether it is responsible to produce software without using …
Finding a Research Job, and Teaching CS in High School
John Langford considers how to stand out when seeking a research position, while Mark Guzdial suggests what teachers need to know to teach computer science at the high…
Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
Dynamically typed languages adopt features of static typing to cope with growth.
Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Speculating on how the Bitcoin economy might evolve.
Opinion Inside risks
Risks and Myths of Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage
Considering existing and new types of risks inherent in cloud services.
Opinion Viewpoint
Disrupting and Transforming the -University
Higher education institutions must modify their business models in response to technology-driven influences.
Opinion Viewpoint
Assessing the accuracy of popular descriptions of Alan Turing's influences and legacy.
Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?
Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Reading News with Maps By Exploiting Spatial Synonyms
Use this map query interface to search the world, even when not sure what information you seek. (View a related original video at https://vimeo.com/106352925.)
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.
Research and Advances Review articles
Abstractions For Software-Defined Networks
New abstractions are critical for achieving SDN goals.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Attacking a Problem from the Middle
"Dissection: A New Paradigm for Solving Bicomposite Search Problems," by Itai Dinur, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir, presents an elegant new…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Dissection: A New Paradigm For Solving Bicomposite Search Problems
In this paper, we introduce the new notion of bicomposite search problems, and show that they can be solved with improved combinations of time and space complexities by…
Opinion Last byte
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. When machines are in…
