Building Tools to Help Students Learn to Program
Philip Guo summarizes his first three years of research into building tools to support those learning computer programming.
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Cybersecurity, Nuclear Security, Alan Turing, and Illogical Logic
Cyber deterrence, like nuclear deterrence, depends on our adversaries being rational enough to be deterred by our threats but us not by theirs.
Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment
Even when surrounded by ubiquitous computing, humans should be encouraged to do what they do better than machines.
Energy Efficiency: A New Concern For Application Software Developers
Development of energy-efficient software is hindered by a lack of knowledge and a lack of tools.
Automatically Accelerating Non-Numerical Programs By Architecture-Compiler Co-Design
HELIX-RC is a compiler/microprocessor co-design that opens loops to parallelization by decoupling communication from thread execution in conventional multicore architectures.
Technical Perspective: A Simple, Elegant Approach to Non-Numeric Parallelization
"Automatically Accelerating Non-Numerical Programs by Architecture-Compiler Co-Design," by Simone Campanoni, et al., proposes a modest hardware extension to support a new parallel execution model for small, non-numeric loops.
Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education
Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.
Grooming the Leaders of Tomorrow
Former Stanford University president John Hennessy is the academic architect behind the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program.
Start CS Students Off with Industry Best Practices
Lamenting that CS students are often not exposed to best practices in the classroom, Thomas A. Limoncelli offered advice for serving students better in "Four Ways to Make CS and IT More Immersive" (Oct. 2017). We agree with that sentiment.
Now For Something Entirely Different
This column is about three books I have just read. Two get at the proliferation of wrong but persuasive assertions about the past, present, or future. The third appeals to logic and humility.
Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.
Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
Consumers are sampling virtual reality systems and software, without needing to buy them.
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
Machine learning mimics human biases; addressing the problem is complicated.
Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality
By 2020, the reign of the von Neumann architecture will begin fading away after 75 years of dominance.
Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption
Organizations like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have a hard time cracking suspects' smartphones, thanks to end-to-end encryption.
Innovative programs are drawing women and minority students to computer science, and giving them the support they need to succeed.
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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