Lazy Developers Are the Best Developers
Lazy developers stick to the project scope while forcing the project team to understand and fix their own code and issues.
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At a U.N. hackathon, open source developers strive to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.
Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, had already designed a self-driving car.
Tech companies have bigger carbon footprints than ever. Here's what some of them are doing about it.
Halfway Round!: Growing the Regional Special Sections
In November 2017, we launched Communications' Regional Special Sections. A year and half later, I'm happy to report we're halfway around the world and gaining momentum!
This year is the 50th anniversary of the activation of the Arpanet project.
We are in the midst a profound transformation of our society, with computer science and its artifacts as a major driver of change.
Bringing More Women, Immigrants, to Computer Science
Gloria Townsend on encouraging women to pursue CS, and Sheldon Waite on supporting immigrants to fill STEM jobs.
A new framework is being used to secure the 2020 U.S. Census from database reconstruction attacks.
Deliberating on the main arguments in recent sets of briefs filed in support of Google's U.S. Supreme Court petition.
A New Labor Market for People with ‘Coolabilities’
How the unique perspective and enhanced strengths accompanying disabilities can benefit the workforce.
GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful
Seeking to improve rankings by utilizing more objective data and meaningful metrics.
Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
Ways of Thinking in Informatics
An innovative, entry-level informatics course enables students to ponder CS problems in different ways, from different perspectives.
Used in the design of the Internet and Unix, the layered services of the hourglass model have enabled viral adoption and deployment scalability.
There is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols.
Technical Perspective: Do You Know Why Your Web Pages Load Faster?
"Taking a Long Look at QUIC," by Arash Molavi Kakhki et al., is a bold attempt to unearth the reasons why QUIC works better than TCP.
Finding the Paradigms Underlying Computing in the Brain
James E. Smith presented "A Roadmap for Reverse-Architecting the Brain's Neocortex" today at ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference in Phoenix.
The Turing Lectures of 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were highlights of the welcome session of ACM FCRC.
Today's facial recognition tools raise new questions about how, where, and when data can be used.
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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