A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program and specifies areas needing greater focus.
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Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
Gary Chapman, Technologist: 1952 – 2010
He raised important public issues, such as the impact of computers and the Internet on society, and encouraged social responsibility for computer professionals.
Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.
Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.
ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.
Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
An Interview with Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen, recipient of the 2006 ACM A.M. Turing Award, reflects on her career.
After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?
An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.
Edward Felten, David Harel, Sarit Kraus and others are honored for their contributions to computer science, technology, and electronic freedom and innovation.
Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.
It has truly been a banner year for ACM. We firmly established ACM hubs in Europe, India, and China after years of exhaustive efforts to expand the Association's global reach. And, ACM membership ended the year at another all-time high.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format.
Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?
Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.
The second Computer Science Education Week is showing students, parents, and educators why computer science is important.
With the introduction of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, the stakes of cyberwarfare have increased immeasurably.
Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.
Created as a supportive networking environment for underrepresented groups in computing and information technology, the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference celebrates and attracts students and professionals from diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in our field.
The following synopses are from Virtual Extension articles that are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
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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