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Neuroscience Misses the Meaning
Examining each transistor in a microprocessor using techniques for analyzing how the human brain works did not yield anticipated understanding.
Brain scans appear to be better at discerning lies than polygraphs are.
Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where they are encountered.
Nae’s Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
A new wave of consumer-centric connected fitness and health-related devices is changing healthcare.
Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.
Pollsters’ Failures Signal Need For Changes
For opinion researchers, the unexpected outcomes of the Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election signals it is time to reassess the kinds of data they gather and how they analyze and present it.
It’s Not the Algorithm, It’s the Data
In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
Government-sanctioned and market-based anti-piracy measures can both mitigate economic harm from piracy.
Fostering Creativity Through Computing
How creative thinking tools and computing can be used to support creative human endeavors.
A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS
We systematically test popular TLS implementations and find unexpected transitions in many of their state machines that have stayed hidden for years. We show how some of these flaws lead to critical security vulnerabilities.
Technical Perspective: Cleaning Up Flaws in TLS Implementations
One unfortunate fact about protocols is that as they get older and applied to more scenarios — and TLS is used basically everywhere — they tend to gain weight. A truism of the security community is that "complexity is the enemy of security." What is the community doing about this?
Celebrating 50 Years of the Turing Award
To celebrate the first 50 years of the A.M. Turing Award, ACM is sponsoring a yearlong series of programs, as highlighted on the Turing 50th website http://www.acm.org/turing-award-50.
Social and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things
"Denial-of-service" cyberattacks require us to up our technical game in Internet security and safety. They also expose the need to frame and enforce social and ethical behavior, privacy, and appropriate use in Internet environments.
Liberal Arts Academia Wants You!
Janet Davis makes a plea to CS practitioners to consider even a short teaching stint.
Model learning emerges as an effective method for black-box state machine models of hardware and software components.
ACM’s Open-Conference Principle and Political Reality
The Open-Conference Principle is aimed at benefiting society.
Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?
Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.
The Work and Inspiration of the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing
The international organization HaPoC promotes and sponsors research that brings together the history and the philosophy of computing.
How AI Is Changing Software Development
Artificial intelligence technologies like advanced machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing will help build better software faster.
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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