BLOG@CACM – Page 38 – Communications of the ACM

Sep 24 2013

The First Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2013 is an annual event where 200 young researchers get to meet with and learn from 40 Turing Award, Fields Medal, Abel Prize and Nevanlinna Prize winners for a whole week from September 22-27, 2013 at the beautiful campus of the Heidelberg University. The laureates in attendance this year are the 40 of the best minds in mathematics and computer science.

Vijay Ganesh

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Sep 13 2013

Fixing the K-12 CS Teacher Certification Mess

This blog piece explores the mess that is K-12 Computer Science Teacher certification in the U.S. and why this matters. It introduces CSTA's new "Bugs in the System" report and provides practical recommendations for creating requirements that make sense and make a different.

Chris Stephenson

Education

Sep 1 2013

Big Data Is ‘Buzzword Du Jour;’ CS Academics ‘Have the Best Job’

Michael Stonebraker analyzes the different varieties of Big Data, while Judy Robertson considers the rewards of teaching computer science.

Michael Stonebraker and Judy Robertson

Computing Applications

Aug 26 2013

Privacy and Google Glass

Why has there been so much negative sentiment about Google Glass in the press regarding privacy? This article looks at privacy from two different perspectives, and looks at what lessons can be drawn.

Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Aug 22 2013

A Stable Future For Computing Education Requires Collaboration Beyond CS

If you were a superintendent of a big city school district, would you require every school in your district to teach computer science without reliable production of new teachers? We need schools and departments of education. We can't do it from computer science.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Aug 19 2013

Turing’s 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers

The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer building? "Yes, certainly" and "No, definitely not" are often-heard answers. A third, more nuanced, response acknowledges a diversity of local computing habits in the 1940s-1950s, including Dutch computing habits that were based on Turing's 1936 "universal machine" concept.

Edgar Daylight

Architecture and Hardware

Aug 13 2013

Are Data Miners Ready to Hang p the Hard Hat and Put on a Lab Coat?

We will find out this week at the annual ACM SIGKDD on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference in Chicago.

Ankur Teredesai

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Aug 2 2013

Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers

A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.

Judy Robertson

Computing Applications

Aug 1 2013

Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom

Philip Guo offers programmers 'Opportunistic Programming' tips that typically are not shared in school.

Philip Guo

Computing Applications

Jul 31 2013

Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering

Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?

Bertrand Meyer

Computing Applications

Jul 18 2013

Leaping the Exascale Chasm

The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution and fidelity, continued advances in semiconductor capabilities, and economic and political competition.

Daniel Reed

Architecture and Hardware

Jul 18 2013

Why Scientists and Engineers Must Learn Programming

Scientists and engineers who program can work 10 to 100 times faster and come up with more creative solutions than those who don't.

Philip Guo

Computing Profession

Jul 15 2013

What’s Our Goal For a CS Degree, and How Do We Know We Got There?

A history of computing suggests that the computer science undergraduate degree is unnecessarily rigorous and may not be achieving the goals we have for it.

Mark Guzdial

Education

Jul 12 2013

Reaching For Engelbart’s Vision of the Future

A meditation on Douglas Engelbart's impact on interactive computing.

Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Jul 8 2013

ACM-W: One Way to Support Women in Computing!

An update on ACM-W activities in 2012-2013, and a look to the coming year.

Valerie Barr

Computing Profession

Jul 3 2013

So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?

And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...

Chas Kurtz

Computing Applications

Jul 3 2013

The ACM ICPC Competition Continues…

ITMO is the host of this year's ACM ICPC.

Chas Kurtz

Computing Profession

St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Jul 3 2013

The Heat Is On

Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Chas Kurtz

Computing Applications

Jul 3 2013

Here We Go!

The ACM ICPC kicks off!

Chas Kurtz

Computing Applications

Jul 2 2013

The Lull Before the Storm

The evening before the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.

Chas Kurtz

Computing Applications

Jul 2 2013

The World’s Smartest Programmers Compete: ACM ICPC

An introductory post with background on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Chas Kurtz

Computing Applications

Jul 1 2013

Ph.D. Students Must Break Away From Undergraduate Mentality

Jason Hong considers how students working on their doctorates in computer science must adapt and evolve to succeed.

Jason Hong

Computing Applications

Jun 30 2013

Education Removes Fear: Some Examples From CS Courses

One purpose of education is to remove fear; I present some examples from CS courses.

Philip Guo

Education

Jun 26 2013

CFP: Whither the NSA Warrantless Internet Surveillance Program

Leading protagonists in the NSA’s warrantless internet surveillance debate discuss the program’s current status in light of recent revelations, focusing on the program’s legal basis and ongoing policy implications.

Katie Fourmy

Computing Profession

Shape the Future of Computing

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.

Get Involved

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.

Learn More