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Russia and other countries are turning to more stringent Internet controls that threaten the free flow of information.
Prototype software will make it easier to track people, individually or in groups.
Talented Programmers Don’t Tolerate Chaos
Talented programmers will strive to structure chaos and write perfect code.
Why IT Professionals Get A Bad Rap For Their Communications
Tips for improving business IT communications.
Making the Internet Civil Again
Researchers are exploring ways to improve discourse in online discussion groups and social media sites.
Start Small, Then Achieve Big Impact
ACM owes its success to an amazing cadre of volunteers around the globe, and they deserve the credit for what ACM accomplishes.
I have become convinced that our consuming societies, at least in the economically "developed" world, have become sources of harm to ourselves and our planet.
Sizing the U.S. Student Cohort for Computer Science
Mark Guzdial considers indicators that U.S. K-12 students will study computer science.
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping habits and preferences.
Dark Web’s Doppelgängers Aim to Dupe Antifraud Systems
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.
Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide — not a lecturer.
Toward ML-Centric Cloud Platforms
Exploring the opportunities to use ML, the possible designs, and our experience with Microsoft Azure.
Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science
Reviewing software testing techniques for finding security vulnerabilities.
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
Top ACM TechNews articles of 2019
One of the most popular topics among the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2019 was, once again, programming and programming languages.
Why Is There No Well-Known Swiss IT Industry?
Herbert Bruderer asks why no information technology industry emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s, despite the appearance of computers from several sources.
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
Shape the Future of Computing
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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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