The Dark Triad and Insider Threats in Cyber Security
Tracing the relationship between pathological personality traits and insider cyber sabotage.
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Creating efficiency in AI research will decrease its carbon footprint and increase its inclusivity as deep learning study should not require the deepest pockets.
Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
Want to be a great programmer? If so, you have to pull back the curtain and learn how software really works. A deeper understanding helps programmers further their skills and knowledge. And that can pay off for years to come.
The Role of LARPing in Computer Science Education
Live-action roleplaying (LARPing) could make computer science education more engaging and effective.
Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?
By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer science challenges. Three classes of challenges are described.
How Do You Calculate on the Abacus?
Considering the use of one of the most long-lived calculating devices.
Getting Light-based Internet Right
Wireless Internet via light could well be a job for lasers, rather than LEDs.
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
Here’s Why Resentment is the Key to Happiness
Do you find happiness to be fleeting? That shiny new car or big job promotion makes you happy for a few weeks but quickly turns into the same old same old? Maybe resentment is the key to happiness... Let me explain why.
Regulation of AI Remains Elusive
The U.S. and EU are considering regulations on artificial intelligence, but none have been implemented...yet.
What Should Be Done About Social Media?
One of the most basic and urgent policy questions is how to tackle the rising role of social media in our public sphere.
In his September 2020 column, Moshe Vardi criticizes Trump Administration policies prohibiting foreign graduate students and points out the dearth of domestic graduate students willing to fill positions. I would like to share my perspective on why I chose another path.
The special section on Latin America highlights the excellent level of research in computer science that flourishes in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the region.
I can divide my career into three phases: practicing science, enabling science, and advocating for science.
Bringing Industry Back to Conferences, and Paying for Results
David Patterson wants to boost industry submissions to conferences, while Yegor Bugayenko suggests productivity should govern coders' pay when they work from home.
Terahertz Networks Move Closer to Reality
The desire for faster, higher-frequency wireless networking is a constant. Terahertz technology could deliver large gains.
Digital Contact Tracing May Protect Privacy, But It Is Unlikely to Stop the Pandemic
Considering the potential benefits versus the risks of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Using Data and Respecting Users
Three technical and legal approaches that create value from data and foster user trust.
It Is Time for More Critical CS Education
By which 'critical' means an intellectual stance of skepticism, centering the consequences, limitations, and unjust impacts of computing in society.
Where Should Your IT Constraint Be?: The Case of the Financial Services Industry
Locating the strategic location of the IT junction constraint.
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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