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The U.S. is getting serious about filling the skies with unmanned aircraft.
Bespoke Additive Manufacturing
Three-dimensional printing tailors item to order, even body parts.
niversities FLIP For Diversity
Cornell University's computer science department is leveraging ideas from other departments in pursuit of more diverse academic candidates.
Designing Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Through the Lens of OpenCellular
Understanding the unique local context, as well as technical considerations, are essential components of successful project deployment.
Providing Equitable Access to Computing Education
Seeking the best measures to reach advantaged and less-advantaged students equally.
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Cache is king. And if your cache is cut, you are going to feel it.
Point: Foundations of E-Democracy
Considering the possibility of achieving an e-democracy based on long-established foundations that strengthen both real-world democracies and virtual Internet communities.
Counterpoint: E-Democracy Won't Save Democracy. Democracy Will Save Democracy
Increased technology is not the solution to the fundamental issue of declining democratic culture.
Queueing theoretic models can guide design trade-offs in systems targeting tail latency, not just average performance.
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction
Science fiction in particular offers students a way to cultivate their capacity for moral imagination.
Multiparty Privacy in Social Media
Online privacy is not just about what you disclose about yourself, it is also about what others disclose about you.
Technical Perspective: Graphs, Betweenness Centrality, and the GPU
"Accelerating GPU Betweenness Centrality" by McLaughlin and Bader ably addresses the challenges to authors of efficient graph implementations in the important context of a computation called betweenness centrality.
Accelerating GPU Betweenness Centrality
We present a hybrid GPU implementation that provides good performance on graphs of arbitrary structure rather than just scale-free graphs as was done previously.
Regulating Automated Decision Making
A group assembled by Informatics Europe and the policy committee of the ACM Europe Council produced a report entitled "When Computers Decide" that makes 10 recommendations to policy leaders regarding automated decision making.
A primary topic of consideration at a recent workshop on cybersecurity was how to preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet while protecting against the harmful behaviors that have emerged in this global medium. That this is a significant challenge cannot be overstated.
Assessing Responsibility for Program Output
We lack an easy way to indicate that algorithms do not make decisions and are not biased; programmers do, and are.
Broadening the Path for Women in STEM
Organizations work to address 'a notable absence of women in the field.'
First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
Moving Computing Education Past Argument from Authority: Stuart Reges and Women Who Code
Computing educators often make decisions based on arguments from authority. Time to move on.
Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles
Consumer fears intensify as self-driving car fatalities dent the driverless dream.
Fujitsu says its "Quantum-Inspired" Digital Annealing is capable of tackling combinatorial optimization problems.
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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