The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Michael Stonebraker didn't realize at the outset that it would take six years to create INGRES, one of the world's first relational databases.
Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx of e-residents.
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
Fernando Flores, president of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness, discusses a new common sense about innovation.
Evaluation Without Ground Truth in Social Media Research
Even without it, some ingenious methods can be developed to help verify users' social media behavioral patterns.
Colored Petri Nets: A Graphical Language For Formal Modeling and Validation of Concurrent Systems
Formal executable models enable systematic evaluation of system designs prior to implementation and deployment.
Michael Stonebraker on Ingres, Postgres, dividing his time between academia and start-ups, and why "one size fits none."
To Learn CS Principles, Start in the Cafeteria Line
Many computer science textbooks explore the concept of a last-in first-out stack by comparing it to the stack of plates in the cafeteria. Yet the plate-stack analogy is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to computer science principles.
The Science of Managing Data Science
Lessons learned managing a data science research team.
A Celebration of Accomplishments
It is that time of year when ACM once again celebrates the accomplishments of an impressive array of contributors to our field, profession, and to ACM.
After almost 17 years, I am retiring and stepping down as ACM CEO. Serving as CEO has been the highlight of my career and a privilege.
St. Petersburg National Research University ITMO Wins 2015 ACM-ICPC World Finals
ITMO becomes the first team to solve all 13 problems in the ACM-ICPC World Finals!
Day Two at the ACM-ICPC World Finals
A look at the second day of the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Morocco.
The ACM-ICPC World Finals: How to Watch and Engage from Home
A guide to following the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest from afar.
Greetings from Marrakech, Host of the 2015 ACM-ICPC World Finals
A report from the 39th Annual IBM-Sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals.
A Taste of CHI Interactivity in Seoul
Observations from CHI 2015, the first SIGCHI annual conference held in Asia.
Learning About Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel and distributed computing are now in the core CS curriculum, and every CS program should be teaching their students about it. How can CS educators learn about it?
Seeking to balance intellectual property protection with incentives for investment in innovation.
Upstart Puzzles: Strategic Friendship
Consider the following game (first posed to my close friend Dr. Ecco) played among several entities. Each entity Ei has a certain force Fi and a certain wealth Wi.
Putting the Data Science Into Journalism
News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify and present manually.
Shape the Future of Computing
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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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