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Computer Models Help Fight Climate Change
Salt marsh modeling holds the potential to protect coastal locations from rising sea levels.
Stepping Stones in an Ocean of Data
An interview with science writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy,” Keith Devlin.
Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
The U.S. Goes All-In on Tech Inclusion
A wave of U.S. federal funding aims to make the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields more inclusive.
Technology For the Most Effective Use of Mankind
In a keynote address (see https://goo.gl/RwkwK1) at the 2016 meeting of the Computing Research Association, Kentaro Toyama argued that persistent societal challenges, such as socio-economic inequality, do not have technology-centric solutions.
The ACM Future of Computing Academy
I am pleased to announce the establishment of the ACM Future of Computing Academy (ACM-FCA), created to bring together talented young professionals from various computing disciplines to address the most pressing challenges facing the global computing community and society at large.
Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central It Departments
Central IT needs to guide functional areas and departments toward effective operational and procurement practices.
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing
Reflections on pioneering code-breaking efforts.
Research For Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
How We Teach CS2All, and What to Do About Database Decay
Valerie Barr considers how to make computer science education meaningful and relevant to all, while a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory offers strategies to counter database decay.
Cell-Graphs: Image-Driven Modeling of Structure-Function Relationship
Cell-graph construction methods are best served when physics-driven and data-driven paradigms are joined.
Information and Misinformation on the Internet
The Internet influenced the decisions of voters in both the June 2016 U.K. referendum on European Union membership and the November 2016 U.S. elections. The disturbing aspect of these is the quantity of poor-quality content, the production of deliberately false information, and the reinforcement of bad information through the social media.
Like model theory, fiction deploys a theory and an interpretation. An interpretation that makes the statements of the theory true demonstrates consistency, in both realms.
Exploring Post-Quantum Cryptography
The New Hope post-quantum algorithm to protect encryptions against quantum computers won its developers Facebook’s 2016 Internet Defense Prize (and $100,000); Google is experimenting with its use for part of its data traffic.
Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children’s Well-Being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack
Despite more than two decades of consistent public warnings that have reached the highest levels of government, cybersecurity throughout much of the world is in a shameful state of unpreparedness.
Who Decides the Future of Work?
The beginning of “a broad conversation” on whether technology should drive society, or should people make decisions about how technology supplements (or supplants) employment?
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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