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Network Science, Web Science, and Internet Science
Exploring three interdisciplinary areas and the extent to which they overlap. Are they all part of the same larger domain?
Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces.
Plain Talk on Computing Education
Mark Guzdial considers how the variety of learning outcomes and definitions impacts the teaching of computer science.
Learning Through Computational Creativity
Improving learning and achievement in introductory computer science by incorporating creative thinking into the curriculum.
Programming the Quantum Future
The Quipper language offers a unified general-purpose programming framework for quantum computation.
Surveillance and Falsification Implications For Open Source Intelligence Investigations
Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies.
Silicon Brains Compete at Games
The 18th Computer Olympiad had programs vying against each other in strategic game-playing.
The Dallas Cowboys is the first professional football team to use Virtual Reality in player training; others are following suit.
A New ‘model For Models’ in Software Development Effort Estimation
Researchers put forth an automatically transformed linear model as a suitable baseline model for comparison against software estimation effort models.
The Robots Are Taking Over! (Perhaps Not Quite Yet)
Programs fix themselves! Today! It's scary!
SF Reading For Computer Scientists: Summer 2015
Summer reading recommendations for computer scientists, courtesy of the SIGCSE 2015 Using Science Fiction in CS Courses BOF.
Respecting People and Respecting Privacy
Minimizing data collection to protect user privacy and increase security.
Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication
Theory on passwords has lagged practice, where large providers use back-end smarts to survive with imperfect technology.
Exascale Computing and Big Data
Scientific discovery and engineering innovation requires unifying traditionally separated high-performance computing and big data analytics.
Using Rhetorical Structure in Sentiment Analysis
A deep, fine-grain analysis of rhetorical structure highlights crucial sentiment-carrying text segments.
Quality vs. Quantity in Faculty Publications
I applaud the Computing Research Association best practices memo Moshe Y. Vardi mentioned in his May 2015 Editor's Letter. However, more specific guidelines are needed for this initiative to be effective.
Anti-Circumvention Rules Limit Reverse Engineering
Considering some of the requested exceptions to technical protection mechanisms.
Preserving the Digital Record of Computing History
Reflecting on the complexities associated with maintaining rapidly changing information technology.
The Dangers of Military Robots, the Risks of Online Voting
John Arquilla considers the evolution of defense drones, and why Duncan A. Buell thinks we are not ready for e-voting.
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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