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Coz: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling
This paper introduces causal profiling. Unlike past profiling approaches, causal profiling indicates exactly where programmers should focus their optimization efforts, and quantifies their potential impact.
Programming Programming Languages, and Analyzing Facebook’s Failure
Mark Guzdial considers an idea with significant educational implications, while Susan Landau looks into the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal.
From topia to Dystopia, and Back Again
Sir Tim Berners-Lee considers the past, present, and future of the World Wide Web.
Saving Lives with Aerial Drones
Aerial drone swarms could self-assemble into hovering rescue platforms.
Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
Fear of Job Loss to Automation Hurts Productivity
Fear of job loss due to automation, combined with confusion over which skill sets one will be needed to be employable in the future, is affecting worker health and productivity.
A New Sense for nderwater Robots
Marrja Kruusmaa and her colleagues in Estonia have developed a way for underwater robots to better understand their environment.
Are Human Brains Quantum Computers?
Research project could explain how memory, and the brain's biology, works.
Dim Prospects for Junior Developers
Employers prefer experience for even entry-level coding positions.
ACM Public Policy Update: 100-Day Highlights
Chronicling the First 100 Days this year of ACM's member-driven policy efforts in Europe and the U.S.
Motion Sickness a Major Problem with Self-Driving Cars
Motion sickness could prevent some of the benefits expected from autonomous vehicles.
The March Into the Black Hole of Complexity
Addressing the root causes of rapidly increasing software complexity.
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
More Than the Code: Learning Rules of Rejection in Writing Programs
A teacher and students coding together make explicit the unwritten rules of programming.
Internet Freedom in West Africa: Technical Support for Journalists and Democracy Advocates
The U.S. State Department's Internet Freedom agenda is being adapted to help them communicate without DNS and IP address filtering.
Data Acquisition in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
The data comes from multiple optimal sources in parallel, helping reduce addressing and data-acquisition latency.
How We Lost the Women in Computing
We cannot understand the current gender disparity in computing without understanding the history of women in computing. How did we lose the women in computing? They did not just leave; they were pushed out.
Toward Sustainable Access: Where Are We Now?
The publishing landscape is changing, and ACM with it. We take this opportunity to describe what ACM thinks about recent trends, recent changes, and the future.
Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association.
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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