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Lasers Create Tiny, Flexible Power Sources
Researchers are developing more flexible power sources for wearable technologies, in new and different shapes.
In Memoriam: Boris Trakhtenbrot, 1921-2016
The mathematician discovered and proved the Gap Theorem, as well as what is now called Trakhtenbrot's Theorem.
Remote Repairs, Healthy Crops, Police Surveillance: The Future of Drones, Ar, and Vr
The future, according to the world's largest vendor of networking gear, is all part of the Internet of Things.
Columbus, OH, claims the $50-million top spot in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.
Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Star Trek has inspired generations to pursue science and technology careers, not a few of whom have transformed part of it into technological and commercial fact.
Companies are exploring the use of a "human dialogue interface" to interact with customers and employees more effectively.
Technical Perspective: Jupiter Rising
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous, exhibits strong regularity within its structure, and when its bandwidth needs exceed the capabilities of those of any available equipment vendor.
‘For All’ in ‘Computer Science For All’
Seeking to expand inclusiveness in computer science education.
Helping Conference Attendees Better Understand Research Presentations
Sharing lessons learned from a lecture program for making technical material more accessible to conference attendees.
Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.
Academic Rankings Considered Harmful!
Academic rankings, in general, provide highly misleading ways to inform academic decision making by individuals. Using such rankings for academic decision making is letting third-party business interests influence our academic values.
To those who have spoken for and who espouse an open and welcoming Internet now falls the task of keeping it that way. To do so will require more than words and argument.
The Work and Inspiration of the International Association For Computing and Philosophy
A prominent player in the philosophy of computer science includes the two disciplines in its title.
Cornell Video Game Speeds Language Learning
Adding "fun" and "chat" aspects to the game enhances memorization and understanding of context.
Tim Berners-Lee and others want a more reliable Web that ensures integrity and privacy.
Augmented Reality Not Just For Gaming
Beyond entertainment, applications for augmented and virtual reality are being developed for business.
A new low-cost technique allows the use of light-emitting diodes to track people’s locations and gestures within a room.
The Beginning of the Internet of Robot Things
Robots will take the Internet of Things to the next level.
When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
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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