Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
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ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more.
The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.
The Reporting Gap on the Patent Gender Gap
It's hard to tell whether women are obtaining more science and engineering patents than they used to, when several reports on the subject can't seem to agree.
Getting rid of obsolete data is getting more difficult, thanks to new regulations and more personal devices in the workplace.
Computer-Automated Traffic Control
Smarter cars and smarter roads are paving the way to smoother, safer traffic
nique School For Coders: Tuition-Free – ntil You’re Hired
A new school for programmers stands behind the ability of its students to find jobs — if you can't find one within a year, tuition is free.
Gaze-Based Inattention Management
How do you reduce distractions to office workers, while satisfying their need to stay current?
Commercial drones are poised to revolutionize a wide range of industries, though regulatory and privacy concerns have created some resistance.
It Jobs Market: The Trends Behind the Statistics
Today's IT jobs market is far from uniform, but some trends stand out. Employers are under pressure to fill positions, salaries are being pushed up, and tony tech firms are going all out with perks to attract and retain talent.
A Few Good Reasons to Publish in Communications
The relationship ACM has with the computing community itself is ultimately less important for ACM than the need to continue offering valuable services to you, the reader and member of this community.
Researchers are making headway with one of quantum computing's major theoretical problems: multi-prover interactive proofs.
Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from medicine to computing.
‘Small Data’ Enabled Prediction of Obama’s Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
John C. Reynolds, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor emeritus John C. Reynolds passed away at age 77.
Software Engineer David Notkin, 1955 – 2013
David Notkin, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Battery Backups Can Lower Datacenter Energy Costs
Researchers at Penn State say that datacenters can cut up to 40 percent off their energy costs by provisioning UPS battery backup devices to meet peak energy requirements that may never occur.
AI Scientist Robert Wilensky, 1951-2013
One of the first computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to focus on artificial intelligence, Robert Wilensky passed away recently at age 61.
Q&a: Hacker Culture, Coding, and Free Speech
Anthropologist E. Gabriella Coleman, author of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, is fascinated by hacker culture, and with its notion that software should be free and treated as free speech.
Researchers suggest a framework for dealing with gracefully retiring someone's digital identities when they pass on.
Moocs Strategize To Generate Revenue
MOOCs are being pressed to come up with revenue-producing business models. Are they being held to a higher standard than other Internet startups?
Searching for scholarly literature became far easier with search engines like Google or Google Scholar. And while it is far easier now to find targeted information, the quality of the results is less assured.
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.
Shape the Future of Computing
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