The Size of Computing Education Today, By The Numbers
How many students learn general-purpose programming today, compared to using other computing environments or learning other STEM subjects?
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Europe’s Controversial Digital Copyright Directive Finalized
Considering the new liability risks for ISPs, search engines, and news aggregators under recent EU-wide mandatory rules.
Computational Thinking Should Just be Good Thinking
Seeking to change computing teaching to improve computer science.
An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
Welcome to the India Region Special Section
The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.
Turbocharging Database Query Processing and Testing
Query processing and optimization are implemented in all contemporary database systems. Indian universities have played a visible role in addressing important, unsolved issues.
Digital Transformation in the Indian Government
The Digital India program is centered on the vision of offering digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, providing services and enabling the digital empowerment of citizens.
CSpathshala: Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools
Some 300,000 students from 750 schools in 11 states throughout India are learning computing through "unplugged" activities as part of CSpathshala, ACM India's education initiative.
Technology Interventions for Road Safety and Beyond
Inadequate road infrastructure, increasing vehicle population, and poor driver training make a chaotic and often deadly mix in India. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies may improve the situation.
Computing Research at Tata Consultancy Services
Research and innovation have played a unique role in Tata Consultancy Services' journey from a computing division to its current place in global technology consulting.
Creative Disruption in Fintech from Sri Lanka
The farsighted entry into financial technology, and experience in mobilizing local talent, contributed to the early success of MillenniumIT.
Aspiring Minds has developed a scalable platform to test the job skills of millions of graduates entering the labor market in India every year.
Designing ICT Interventions for Women in Pakistan
In order to ensure entire populations benefit from the deployment and adoption of ICTs an understanding of the specific needs and challenges faced by women is imperative.
What if you had the superpower to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds, a multiple-choice question with a billion choices? The objective in extreme classification is to develop algorithms with such capabilities.
Speech and natural language processing of Indic languages is hugely important and relevant in India, where approximately 420-440 languages are in active use.
The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media in India
Online social media services have had a profound impact in India, increasing digital literacy, disseminating more local language content, and more. The services have had negative effects as well.
The Rise of the Indian Start-Up Ecosystem
The rise of the Indian start-up ecosystem can be characterized by three major changes over the last decade that offer interesting insights for the start-up ecosystem in India and across the world.
India Stack – Digital Infrastructure as Public Good
Digital inclusion in India has taken off in a significant way in the last few years. The country is young, ambitious, and connected.
Hazards of the Information Superhighway
The presentation of Internet search results not only must be prioritized by some measure of quality but also the ranking criteria must be clear and well understood. Transparency is our friend in this endeavor.
The Winner-Takes-All Tech Corporation
What may have been a radical position less than a year ago has become a conventional wisdom now. There are several initiatives to regulate "Big Tech;" the question now is how rather than if.
You Can Publish It!: (You Have To)
The Viewpoint Column "Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)" in the September 2019 issue is naïve and unscientific. It does not cite any of the scientific literature the author is claiming to refute.
Yegor Bugayenko explains his realization that software developers should go neither above nor beyond.
Research in Theoretical Computer Science
Indian undergraduate programs in computing date back to the early 1980s — a time that also saw the first generation of graduate students from India taking up theoretical computer science.
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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