Can Antiferromagnetic Materials Replace Silicon in Future Computers?
Seeking alternatives to silicon as Moore’s Law approaches its end.
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New MacArthur Fellow Takes Aim at Online Harassment, Doxing
Danielle Citron, a privacy scholar who has done pioneering work in combating hate crimes and other abuses in cyberspace, has been named a 2019 MacArthur fellow.
Not So Good After All? Don’t Let ‘Altruism’ Kill Your Company
Altruism is often heralded as a panacea for management challenges, but it could actually be a death sentence for your team and projects. Here's why.
A personalized take on three things we have to celebrate about the Internet today.
Evolution Through Revolution: Getting Your Team to Embrace Change
Don't accept the status quo. Instead, build a team willing to fight for positive change.
U.K. Digital Health Infrastructure Is Stepping Up
Developments in the public and private sectors put the U.K. on the cusp of critical advances in helping people get healthier through digital tools.
In Memoriam Peter T. Kirstein: 1933-2020
Kirstein often was recognized as the 'father of the European Internet.'
Computing Continues to Dominate STEM Career Opportunities
According to the most recent (2018-28) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, the top five STEM career opportunities are all in computing.
The CUE.NEXT workshops aim to provide computing education for all undergraduates.
Mastering Concurrent Computing through Sequential Thinking
A 50-year history of concurrency.
Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal
There is a common belief that grades in computer science courses are bimodal. We devised a psychology experiment to understand why CS educators hold this belief.
How the Internet Spans the Globe
The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.
New discoveries answer an old question.
Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?
Industry's dreams and fears for this new technology.
Cracks in Open Collaboration in Universities
Universities and the interchange of scholars and students in international collaborations have long played an important role in knitting a fabric of human relationships and shared understanding. This fabric is fraying rapidly.
Publishing one's paper at a prestigious conference has become the standard way to build professional credentials, yet the dominance of conference publication comes at a cost.
In Search of the Shortest Possible Schedule
Bertrand Meyer considers how to speed up software engineering.
Technical Perspective: Is There a Geek Gene?
"Evidence that Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal" uses empirical methods to determine if belief in innate differences may explain why CS teachers see a bimodality in grades.
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
How to defend intimate details and card data while shopping online this season.
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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