Network Operators Beef Up Last Mile For Cord-Cutters
Consumers increasingly are bypassing traditional content providers to download content a la carte via broadband connection.
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Taking Incremental Steps Towards CS For All
U.S. states are developing novel, incremental approaches to CS for All.
Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City last week.
The ‘smart City’ Is Increasingly Global
Municipalities all over the world are building greater intelligence into their infrastructures.
Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.
Online consumers use software to block ads; online advertisers can pay to be whitelisted by some ad-blocking software.
Apis Are Changing the Way We Pay
Application programming interfaces are being used increasingly to facilitate electronic payments.
Introducing CS to Newcomers, and JES As a Teaching Tool
Valerie Barr gets high schoolers thinking about CS, while Mark Guzdial mulls the benefits of Jython Environment for Students.
Pushing on String: The 'Don't Care' Region of Password Strength
Enterprises that impose stringent password-composition policies appear to suffer the same fate as those that do not.
Apache Spark: A Unified Engine For Big Data Processing
This open source computing framework unifies streaming, batch, and interactive big data workloads to unlock new applications.
Actors linked to central others in networks are generally central, even as actors linked to powerful others are powerless.
Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google
Two software giants continue with legal sparring after an initial judicial decision.
Growing Computer Science Education Into a STEM Education Discipline
Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.
Considering the need to create new modes of interaction and approaches to assessment given a rapidly evolving academic realm.
Time to Reinspect the Foundations?
Questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations.
Technical Perspective: FPGA Compute Acceleration Is First About Energy Efficiency
"A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services" presents a research deployment of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in a Microsoft Bing datacenter.
A Reconfigurable Fabric For Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
We describe a medium-scale deployment of a composable, reconfigurable hardware fabric on a bed of 1,632 servers, and measure its effectiveness in accelerating the ranking component of the Bing web search engine.
Globalization, Computing, and Their Political Impact
Globalization and automation provide huge benefits to society, but their adverse effects cannot and should not be ignored. As actors in and beneficiaries of this societal transformation, we have, I believe, a social responsibility that goes beyond our technical roles.
Seeking the programmer vote, an AI delivering a slogan like "Make Coding Great Again" could easily be seen as a threat.
Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.
We are reaching an exciting period in scientific discovery in which computation is as important as laboratory experiment and observation.
Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
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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