Teaching Computational Thinking Sooner
Are there benefits to teaching computational thinking to preschoolers?
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SIGIR 2017 Day 1: Neural Networks For IR
Blog on a one-day tutorial on Neural Networks at SIGIR 2017.
CSTA: Computer Science Education, Equity, and the Future Workforce
The Big IDEA and the PD Pipeline are two examples of industry-changing initiatives launched by the Computer Science Teachers Association over the past two years.
In Memoriam Peter Wegner: 1932-2017
Wegner made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming.
Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See
Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.
The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors
This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.
Charles P. ‘Chuck’ Thacker: 1943-2017
Microsoft researcher Charles P. Thacker, awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award, died Monday, June 12, at the age of 74, after a brief illness.
Is the U.S. Education System Ready For CS For All?
Insights from a recent Google-Gallup national research study seeking to better understand the context of K--12 CS education.
The Natural Science of Computing
As unconventional computing comes of age, we believe a revolution is needed in our view of computer science.
Turing’s Pre-War Analog Computers: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited
Turing's machines of 1936 were a purely mathematical notion, not an exploration of possible blueprints for physical calculators.
In Praise of Under-Specification?
It is interesting to contemplate whether the notion of under-specification that induces flexibility and anticipates new but unknown developments can be codified in a concrete way beyond the purely conceptual.
Data Science: Challenges and Directions
While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that.
Building the Future Communications of the ACM
The Communications of the ACM team is dynamic; a collection of passionate leaders, making change and creating the future CACM through the actions, initiatives, and goals that we are pursuing today. In that vein, here are some of my ambitions for the Future CACM.
Technical Perspective: Unexpected Connections
The inherent scalability of an interface is the focus of "The Scalable Commutativity Rule" by Austin T. Clements, et al.
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
The idea of personal air vehicles has been around for decades. Now the concept is taking off.
Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
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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