Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.
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Framing Sustainability as a Property of Software Quality
This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.
Discovering Genes Involved in Disease and the Mystery of Missing Heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.
Information processing gives spiritual meaning to life, for those who make it their life's work.
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.
Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
Digital Receipts Help Solve a Growing Paper Problem
Retailers explore alternatives to the increasingly lengthy paper receipt.
Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes For Furniture Design
The authors propose an interactive design framework for the efficient and intuitive exploration of geometrically and physically valid shapes.
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
The Value of Social Theories For Global Computing
Conceptual toolkits for projects that work.
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
AI has seen great advances of many kinds recently, but there is one critical area where progress has been extremely slow: ordinary commonsense.
Dan Boneh on pairing-based cryptography, multilinear maps, and how an 1,800-year-old "intellectual curiosity" became the foundation of all secure network traffic.
Computers and, especially, computer programs may be among the least well understood artifacts known to mankind.
Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?: A Proposal For 'PACM'
The ACM Publications Board Conferences Committee has been working on a proposal that brings together conference and journal publishing. Here, we offer some background leading up to this proposal, summarize the plan, and solicit your input.
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
Innovators Assemble: Ada Lovelace, Walter Isaacson, and the Superheroines of Computing
Can computing history be both inspiring and accurate?
The Pros and Cons of the ‘PACM’ Proposal: Point
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave conference and journal publishing. Here, computer scientist Kathryn S. McKinley argues for and against the proposal.
The Pros and Cons of the ‘PACM’ Proposal: Counterpoint
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave conference and journal publishing. Here, computer scientist David S. Rosenblum argues against the proposal.
May the Computational Force Be with You
There are many open questions in complexity theory concerning "a deeper reality below the one we perceive" that may be relevant, even fundamental, to Yannis Papakonstantinou's Viewpoint "Created Computed Universe" (June 2015).
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