Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes?
Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
The Personal Software Process encourages programmer discipline. Largely forgotten, it does have a few wrinkles, but understanding and applying its core ideas remains as fruitful as ever.
The Year-Round Joys and Benefits of Open Source Software
One of the things that makes us programmers feel warm and fuzzy is open source software. Companies support open source too. Why give something away for free? A lot of individuals contribute open source code out of a genuine sense of altruism. Yet when it comes to companies, it’s often a strategic choice, and one they expect to benefit from. Let's review how companies benefit from open source.
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
Technologies for the Visually Impaired
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
U.S. States Must Broaden Participation While Expanding Access to Computer Science Education
Incorporating equity and inclusion in the effort toward access for everyone.
Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving AI
Engineering and algorithmic framework to ensure data privacy and user confidentiality.
What Should Be Done About Social Media?
One of the most basic and urgent policy questions is how to tackle the rising role of social media in our public sphere.
The special section on Latin America highlights the excellent level of research in computer science that flourishes in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the region.
Bringing Industry Back to Conferences, and Paying for Results
David Patterson wants to boost industry submissions to conferences, while Yegor Bugayenko suggests productivity should govern coders' pay when they work from home.
Digital Contact Tracing May Protect Privacy, But It Is Unlikely to Stop the Pandemic
Considering the potential benefits versus the risks of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Using Data and Respecting Users
Three technical and legal approaches that create value from data and foster user trust.
Where Should Your IT Constraint Be?: The Case of the Financial Services Industry
Locating the strategic location of the IT junction constraint.
Estimating Amazon Carbon Stock Using AI-based Remote Sensing
This work presents advances in the way of a more accurate estimate of the carbon captured by forest areas, in particular the Amazon rainforest and its peculiarities.
Understanding Salsa: How Computing Is Defining Latin Music
An interdisciplinary research field called music information retrieval seeks to develop computational data search and retrieval techniques applied to music.
A Technological and Innovative Approach to COVID-19 in Uruguay
This article presents a technological and innovative approach developed to help the Uruguayan government in their fight against COVID-19.
It is critical for underrepresented communities in technology to foster initiatives that are committed to developing tools for the local adoption of AI.
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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