California’s Internet Voting Initiatives
The vast majority of computer and network security experts agree that there is currently no way to adequately secure an online public election.
Computing Profession
Advertisement
Researchers are developing electronic components that have the ability to recognize damage and repair themselves.
Global programmatic advertising is projected to account for 60% of all digital display ads this year.
Knowledge Graphs Pick Needles from the Haystack
Using machine learning to wade through massive amounts of data.
A Decade of ACM Efforts Contribute To Computer Science For All Initiative
Obama’s Computer Science for All initiative "represents the culmination of more than a decade of effort initiated by the ACM."
Google has started hosting mobile apps and incorporating them into search results.
Computational Learning Techniques Becoming Mainstream
Applying support vector machines to predictive analytics.
What must we learn in order to support privacy requirements as technology advances?
The Moral Hazard of Complexity-Theoretic Assumptions
In November 2015, the computing world was abuzz with the news that László Babai proved the Graph-Isomorphism Problem. If Babai’s result holds under scrutiny, it is likely to become one of the most celebrated results in theoretical computer science of the past several decades.
There are trade-offs to be found between a native mode implementation of an application and a browser-based implementation.
How a Supervillain (or a Hacker in His Basement) Could Destroy the Internet
Network experts share their greatest fears about attacks and accidents that could destroy the Internet.
In Privacy Law, It’s the U.S. vs. the World
Snowden revelations force changes, but Facebook (and others) resist.
Broadening Access to Computing Education State By State
Influencing computer science education at the state level.
Having a Conversation About Bulk Surveillance
Considering a controversial subject that extends far beyond the collection of phone metadata.
Lessons from the Tech Transfer Trenches
Moving from the research realm to real-world business application.
The Verification of a Distributed System
A practitioner's guide to increasing confidence in system correctness.
Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.
The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box
It turns out riding across America is more than a handy metaphor for building system software.
Technical Perspective: Program Synthesis Using Stochastic Techniques
The authors of "Stochastic Program Optimization" have developed a stochastic search technique and applied it to program optimization.
Stochastic Program Optimization
By encoding constraints of transformation correctness as terms in a cost function, and using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler to explore the space of all possible code sequences, we are able to generate aggressively optimized versions of a given target code sequence.
Drumming Up Support For AP CS Principles
Mark Guzdial issues a "call to action" to encourage high schools to offer, and students to take, the Advanced Placement course in Computer Science Principles.
Expect ‘Ungoverned Actors’ to Use AI-Supported Weapons, Too
Both sides of the Point/Counterpoint "The Case for Banning Killer Robots" (Dec. 2015) over lethal autonomous weapons systems seemed to agree the argument concerns weapons "…that once activated, would be able to select and engage targets without further human involvement."
ACM has recognized 42 of its members for significant contributions to the development and application of computing, in areas ranging from data management and spoken-language processing to robotics and cryptography.
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.
Learn More