Launching a New Feature in Communications
Communications is launching a new series of articles that broaden our presentation of the computing profession, with a particular focus on a young professional audience and a breadth of career paths.
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Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy
Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on design in terms of functions, behaviors, and structures.
A Summer Away From the Keyboard
Three computer science students explain the pros and cons of spending their summer away from coding.
Virginia Tech Associate Professor at Wu-chun Feng, commonly known as "Wu," talks about productivity and his latest work on supercomputers.
Hot Job Market For Computer Science Graduates
The newest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projections predict that the already hot job market for computing professionals will become even hotter this decade.
Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus
High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck startup incubator/accelerator.
Google’s Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS
Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and to consider it as a career.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Keynote at Grace Hopper
Sheryl Sandberg gave the opening keynote at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and spoke about why careers in technology are important and why it is critical that women go into these careers.
Connecting Women and Technology
Guest blogger Valerie Barr writes about highlights of the ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, including keynote speeches by Megan Smith and Francine Berman.
The State of Distance Education in Saudi Arabia
Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa of King Saud University, Riyadh, writes about Saudi Arabia's adoption of distance education as part of its educational and development strategies. Policies for distance and virtual higher education institutions are still under development for approval by the Ministry of Higher Education. Distance education is primarily applied where gender segregation is required in higher education, where male lecturers are only authorized to teach female students by means of closed-circuit television, one-way video and two-way audio and broadcast.
Teaching Computing to Everyone
Georgia Institute of Technology has required every undergraduate on campus to take a course in computing. Here are the lessons learned from the practice, now almost 10 years old, of creating high-demand computer science courses for non-computing majors.
Human Computing Skills: Rethinking the K-12 Experience
Establishing the fundamentals of computational thinking is essential to improving computer science education.
ACM members have a professional duty to ensure that the public comprehends and benefits from advances in computing.
Education: Reprogramming College Preparatory Computer Science
The college preparatory computer science education curriculum must be improved, beginning with the earliest phases of the process.
Computer Experts: Guns-For-Hire or Professionals?
Considering the responsibilities of those who build systems fundamental to significant social functions, institutions, and values.
Crossroads For Canadian CS Enrollment
What should be done to reverse falling CS enrollment in the Canadian education system?
IT Skills in a Tough Job Market
IT professionals know they must keep their skills up to date. But doing so requires knowing what skills are in demand.
The (gradually) Changing Face of State It Jobs
Working for the state once meant long hours, low pay, and lots of red tape. That picture has certainly changed in recent years, as state governments plan to compete with the private sector for top IT talent.
What Causes Stress in Information System Professionals?
Job stress can lead to burnout and turnover, costing IT organizations countless dollars in replacement costs, and making methods for measuring and minimizing stress a business benefit.
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 InvolvedCommunications 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.
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