What Do DDT and Computing Have in Common?
In addition to reaping computing's bounty (education, information access, entertainment, commerce, efficiency, and more), we should "own" and work to reduce the negative impacts of computing.
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Safety Proposal Points in Same Direction
In her February 2020 column ("Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?"), Nancy Leveson says the solution to software safety is not "building a software architecture and generating the requirements later." We are surprised that anyone would propose such an approach.
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional imagery to computer graphics.
How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
How ACM Is Adapting in This Period of Global Uncertainties
The global impact of computing and information technology has never been clearer than it is now as the world continues its efforts to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.
Efficiency vs. Resilience: What COVID-19 Teaches Computing
Computer science has yet to internalize the idea that resilience, which to me includes fault tolerance, security, and more, must be pushed down to the algorithmic level.
Partnerships Can Help Drive Gender Equality
Myriad organizations work to increase the number of women in the technology sector. Are we possibly reducing our collective impact because we are sometimes competing rather than cooperating for funding and volunteer effort?
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.
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.
A detailed picture of financial information relating to ACM's publications revenues and expenses.
What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
New Ways to Think About CS Education
Two new approaches could have an impact on both the quality of CS education and on our professional responsibilities to society.
Two books, one published to great acclaim and the other still in process, resonate with a visceral intensity for which I was honestly unprepared and surprised.
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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