Reading in the Panopticon: Your Kindle May Be Spying on You, But You Can't Be Sure
eBooks may have surveillance technologies embedded in them. Should we care?
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Commercial Quantum Computing Made Possible
Intel is chipping away at quantum computing with its Horse Ridge cryogenic control chip.
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
Eight ACM members were among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders named 2020 members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Artificial intelligence allows the screening of billions of molecules, until you find the one(s) you want.
Learning Computational Thinking to Dominate the Music Industry
Music can be a context for middle school students to learn about computational thinking and data science. In a game environment, students can play the role in which they analyze data to boost their artist's career. In contrast to many school settings in which students encounter data, a music industry context can be authentic and accessible and can highlight the iterative, cyclical nature of thinking with data,
The use of software to determine bail and sentencing terms has gone mainstream. How fair are these systems?
Would There Be Computers Without Easter?
Finding roots of computing in the computation of Easter.
Give Tax Time Phishing Attacks the Slip
Learning how to recognize tax-time email scams can help taxpayers and businesspeople avoid them.
In Memoriam: John Horton Conway 1937-2020
Conway worked on the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory, coding theory, and even recreational mathematics.
Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are aiding hospitals and healthcare experts in the battle against the coronavirus.
Keeping Students Educated and Engaged
The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Contingency Plans for CS Students in Large Classes
Some of our students will get sick before the end of the term. We need a plan.
Teaching Teachers to Offer STEM to Undergrads
Mark Guzdial considers how teaching computing to undergraduates requires better education of the teachers as well.
New Ways to Think About CS Education
Two new approaches could have an impact on both the quality of CS education and on our professional responsibilities to society.
Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Professional Work
Considering the implications of the influence of artificial intelligence given previous industrial revolutions.
Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?
Examining the structure of the enterprise attack surface in view of the relative ease with which cyberdefenses can be subverted.
The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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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