News

Oct 25 2011

Two Low-Cost Tablets For India’s Schools

Many of the classrooms in India are short of teachers and devoid of electricity. But what researchers hope they will have are low-cost computer tablets specifically designed for the needs of the country's students.

Paul Hyman

Education

Oct 19 2011

Proton-Based Transistor Breakthrough

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a proton-based transistor that might eventually enable machines to communicate with living things.

Bob Violino

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 13 2011

What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?

Beyond a mind-bending array of business, societal, and technological accomplishments, there’s an often-overlooked side to Steve Jobs and Apple. The company’s contributions to computer science are sparse, particularly in recent years.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Oct 13 2011

Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and nix Developer, Has Passed Away

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX, has passed away at the age of 70.

Jack Rosenberger

Computing Applications

Oct 4 2011

Why Creative Ideas Are Rejected (and What You Can Do About It)

If you want your creative idea to be accepted, you might want to downplay how creative it is, according to researchers.

Alex Wright

Computing Profession

Oct 1 2011

Seeing Is Not Enough

A new DARPA program is teaching cameras visual intelligence — how to spot and understand human behavior.

Tom Geller

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Oct 1 2011

Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with their environment.

Kirk L. Kroeker

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

brain-computer interface researcher Dawn Taylor

Oct 1 2011

Living in a Digital World

Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people's behavior in less than desirable ways.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Applications

Oct 1 2011

Success at 16

A high school student wins first prize from ACM for developing a faster keyboard layout.

Marina Krakovsky

Computing Applications

Oct 1 2011

ACM’s Copyright Policy

Addressing the needs of authors, readers, and the Association.

Ronald F. Boisvert and Jack W. Davidson

Computing Applications

Oct 1 2011

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Sep 27 2011

Data Mining ncovers New Connections Between Health Problems

Researchers in Denmark are using data mining techniques to uncover new connections between health problems as seemingly unrelated as migraines and hair loss.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Sep 20 2011

Kinect Assists At-Risk Older Adults

Kinect and other computer technology, like Doppler radar, are being used to detect the early onset of illness and the risk of falling in older adults.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Sep 13 2011

Understanding and Improving Crowdsourcing Models

A network of researchers are attempting to create more efficient and useful crowdsourcing models that could be used to predict everything from terrorist attacks to changes in societal eating habits.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Applications

Sep 6 2011

New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?

The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with a new metric, says Allan Snavely.

Paul Hyman

Architecture and Hardware

Sep 1 2011

A Breakthrough in Algorithm Design

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an algorithm that might be able to solve a certain class of linear systems much more quickly than today's fastest solvers.

Kirk L. Kroeker

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Sep 1 2011

Invasion of the Mobile Apps

The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.

Gary Anthes

Computing Applications

Sep 1 2011

Remaking American Medicine

Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.

Neil Savage

Computing Applications

patient with Health Buddy monitoring system

Sep 1 2011

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Aug 30 2011

Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security

University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human errors that leave networks vulnerable.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Aug 23 2011

Trust Develops ‘science Base’ For Cybersecurity

University of California, Berkeley's TRUST is developing a cybersecurity "science base"– a principled approach to developing trustworthy systems in which security is an integral part and not "bolted on like an afterthought."

Paul Hyman

Computing Profession

Aug 19 2011

Remembering Franz Alt

Franz Alt, one of the founders of ACM and its president from 1950 to 1952, died July 21, 2011 at the age of 100.

Bob Violino

Computing Profession

Aug 16 2011

Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion

If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Paul Hyman

Computing Applications

Aug 9 2011

Sysadmin Day Goes Global

It’s not unusual for system administrators to spend long days in the office—and even wind up sleeping in them overnight. Or get paged at 2 A.M. or on Thanksgiving after a server crashes.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Profession

Shape the Future of Computing

Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.