What Does Saying That ‘Programming Is Hard’ Really Say, and About Whom?
Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.
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Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice
Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.
Science Needs to Engage With Society: Some Lessons From COVID-19
Recent experiences toward communicating science to the general public.
The Domestic Computer Science Graduate Students Are There, We Just Need to Recruit Them
Proven practices to recruit domestic computer science graduate students.
Can we discover language in the vocalizations and/or gestures of non-human species? Within that question lies another: whether rich machine learning methods can demonstrate that interspecies communication is possible.
In the June issue of Communications, Editor-in-Chief Andrew A. Chien suggested that ACM consider bestowing two A.M. Turing Awards per year. Reader reactions were thoughtful and provocative.
Program Verification: Vision and Reality
In 1969, Tony Hoare wrote in "An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming" about mathematical certainty, great reliance, and confidence. In retrospect, the hope for "mathematical certainty" was idealized, and not fully realistic, I believe.
Two Sides of the Software Engineering Coin
Two columns from the January 2021 Communications: Michael A. Cusumano's "Technology Strategy and Management" and Thomas Haigh's "Historical Reflections," offer a stark contrast with respect to the engineering profession.
Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair Use
A multifactored rationale for denying Oracle's claim against Google.
Responsible Computing During COVID-19 and Beyond
Navigating the ethical and societal impacts of technologies.
Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
Acquiring developer-prized practical skills, knowledge, and experiences.
The Limits of Differential Privacy (and Its Misuse in Data Release and Machine Learning)
Differential privacy is not a silver bullet for all privacy problems.
The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.
Shaping the Foundations of Programming Languages
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman discuss their early work, the 'Dragon Book,' and the future of 'live' computer science education.
Time for Two Annual Turing Awards
ACM should bestow two Turing Awards each year, starting immediately.
The resilience of the Internet with alternative paths, including satellite and undersea and land cable as well as high speed laser links, might play a critical part of overcoming the side effects of a major CME (coronal mass ejection) event.
The Risks of Election Believability (or Lack Thereof)
With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
Code needs to run anywhere as long as the necessary dependencies can be resolved.
Locality and Professional Life
The locality principle extends beyond computer memories. It teaches us something about being human.
Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome
Understanding impostor syndrome's complexity and its effect on research persistence.
Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research
Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process.
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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