Communications of the ACM
Virtual Reality Stinks Because It Does Not Smell
For VR to feel truly immersive, it needs to start stinking it up.
From ACM Opinion
Is LiDAR on Its Way Out?
As automation proliferates, sensing is increasingly moving toward software and away from LiDAR
From ACM Opinion
Vint Cerf: COVID-19 Highlights How We Need Better Internet Access Everywhere
Cerf shares his views on the future of the Internet, the importance of trust and empathy, and the impact of new technologies like IoT and AI on the future of communications...
From ACM Opinion
What is Cyberwar?
At its core, cyberwarfare refers the use of digital attacks by one country or nation to disrupt the computer systems of another with the aim of create significant...
From ACM Opinion
Ballmer: Android sers Need To Be 'computer Scientists'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, said that people need to be 'computer scientists' to be able to use Android smartphones...
From ACM Opinion
Your Data Isn't Secure, Don't Trust Companies to Keep It Safe
It's time for a major change in the way our personal, private data is handled. We need to take back our data from companies that are unwilling and unable to protect...
From ACM Opinion
Microsoft Big Brains: Butler Lampson
If there were a jack of all trades at Microsoft, Technical Fellow Butler Lampson, who is also an ACM Fellow and a former ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, would...
From ACM Opinion
K Envisions Zero Waste: What About Computers?
Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. But computers and batteries face recycling...
From ACM Opinion
Is China's 'secure' Os a Threat to .s Offensive Cyber Capabilities?
China's development of the Kylin hardened operating system undermines U.S. offensive cyber warfare capabilities, Kevin G. Coleman of Technolytics Institute told...
From ACM TechNews