Is Computer Science a vocational skill or an academic subject? While many of us might say "yes" and "yes," public policy in the states is increasingly requiring a choice between those two answers.
It is interesting to note that a substantial subset of the computer science community has redefined their research agenda to fit under the marketing banner of "Big Data."
Moshe Y. Vardi's "Are You Talking to Me?" (Sept. 2011) said conference attendees are sometimes unable to follow speakers' presentations and eventually give up trying. How about an experimental conference where session chairs are expected to ask questions during presentations?
Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
