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The Roots of Computing, in New York City
The seeds of Silicon Valley were harvested from the Big Apple.
Communicating Supercomputer Science at Sc15
What is the greatest secret to connecting with the public and funders about computer science, even if its applications are clearly intended to transform and improve our lives?
The HPC Matters program is a multi-year effort to communicate the benefits — from the development of new medical therapies to and increased understanding of climate processes — the many ways in which HPC "matters" in our lives every day.
A Call to Action For Higher Education to Make AP CS Principles Work
The new Advanced Placement exam in CS Principles will be offered in May 2017. It's time to figure out what colleges and universities are going to do about it.
ACM Sigs Reach Golden Anniversaries
Special Interest Groups celebrate standing the test of time.
Cerf Cites Challenges Facing the Internet of Things
Moving the Internet of Things forward will require, among other things, standards, the ability to configure massive numbers of devices, and a healthy dose of paranoia.
A metro map can tell a story, as well as provide good directions.
Why People Post Benevolent and Malicious Comments Online
Explaining motivations for online comments, this study looks to help establish a positive, nonthreatening online comment culture.
Hidden In-Game Intelligence in NBA Players’ Tweets
Sentiment analysis helps detect NBA players' pre-game moods from their tweets and predict their on-court performance.
Inductive Programming Meets the Real World
Inductive programming can liberate users from performing tedious and repetitive tasks.
Technical Perspective: Treating Networks Like Programs
"Software Dataplane Verification" takes existing static checking of networks to a new level by checking the real code in the forwarding path of a Click router using classical software verification tools, and not just a model of router software as in previous work.
None of the three articles on the proposed Proceedings of the ACM (Sept. 2015) addressed what should be the fundamental concern for any publication: Who will actually read (and subscribe to) it?
Software Dataplane Verification
We present the result of working iteratively on two tasks: designing a domain-specific verification tool for packet-processing software, while trying to identify a minimal set of restrictions that packet-processing software must satisfy in order to be verification-friendly.
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Fred Brooks reflects on his career.
How Men Can Help Women in CS; Winning ‘Computing’s Nobel Prize’
Valerie Barr suggests how men can better promote women in computing, while Michael Stonebraker shares how it feels to receive the top honor in the computer science field.
Software Patents Are Falling Down
Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's new test for patentable subject matter.
Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety
Examining the effects of electronic health records on the safety of patients in medical facilities.
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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