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My First Interaction, Design, and Children Conference, IDC 2018
IDC 2018 was a fun conference with lots of great insights.
"Citizen Developers" can create new applications via low-code development.
Smart Thermometers Improve Flu Forecasting
Connecting electronic thermometers to smartphones permits the capture of instant, anonymized fever readings as leading indicators of influenza outbreaks.
Are Your Plants Misbehaving? Call a Robotanist
Robotic management can help ensure that plants and trees in public spaces grow in desired shapes and sizes.
James Bond-like spies have been eclipsed by a new generation of operatives who don't travel the world (not physically, anyway) or drink martinis, shaken or stirred.
The world's largest navy explores the use of additive manufacturing for spare parts, with an eye toward eventually building ships that way.
Exploring Cyber Resilience for Electricity
Challenges face the use of microgrids, but they hold the potential for increased grid security.
The Fake News Wars Have Only Begun
The next generation of false news will feature realistic-looking videos and a battle of algorithms.
"Always Out of Balance" (April 2018) overstated (somewhat) the effect of intractability by claiming the intractability of computing Nash equilibrium necessitates researchers abandon this notion in favor of other competition-related ideas.
Privacy in Decentralized Cryptocurrencies
When it comes to anonymizing cryptocurrencies, one size most definitely does not fit all.
Are technology companies maximizing profits by making users addicted to their products?
By focusing on users' abilities rather than disabilities, designers can create interactive systems better matched to those abilities.
Bias in Web data and use taints the algorithms behind Web-based applications, delivering equally biased results.
Identifying Patterns in Medical Records through Latent Semantic Analysis
Text analysis can reveal patterns of association among medical terms and medical codes.
Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
Technical Perspective: Measuring Optimization Potential with Coz
In "Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling," Curtsinger and Berger describe causal profiling, which tell programmers exactly how much speed-up bang to expect for their optimization buck.
ACM A.M. Turing award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson have introduced generations of students to reduced instruction set computing.
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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