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Why People Post Benevolent and Malicious Comments Online
Explaining motivations for online comments, this study looks to help establish a positive, nonthreatening online comment culture.
Hidden In-Game Intelligence in NBA Players’ Tweets
Sentiment analysis helps detect NBA players' pre-game moods from their tweets and predict their on-court performance.
Inductive Programming Meets the Real World
Inductive programming can liberate users from performing tedious and repetitive tasks.
Technical Perspective: Treating Networks Like Programs
"Software Dataplane Verification" takes existing static checking of networks to a new level by checking the real code in the forwarding path of a Click router using classical software verification tools, and not just a model of router software as in previous work.
None of the three articles on the proposed Proceedings of the ACM (Sept. 2015) addressed what should be the fundamental concern for any publication: Who will actually read (and subscribe to) it?
Software Dataplane Verification
We present the result of working iteratively on two tasks: designing a domain-specific verification tool for packet-processing software, while trying to identify a minimal set of restrictions that packet-processing software must satisfy in order to be verification-friendly.
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Fred Brooks reflects on his career.
Companies Proactively Seek Out Internal Threats
Organizations must balance their concerns with the protection of employee privacy.
John Henry Holland, a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and of what became known as genetic algorithms, died in August at the age of 86.
Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
Natural Language Generation software begins delivering on the promise of automated prose.
I continue to look for ways to preserve digital information over long periods of time. Imagine storing petabytes of information in vials containing dried DNA and using robots to retrieve it.
Artificial Precognition ses Data to See the Future
Using large data sets and machine learning to recognize unseen patterns.
One afternoon early in 1990, one of the 100 or so 4ESS switches that handled U.S. long-distance traffic at the time hit a glitch and executed some untested recovery code. In the process the switch dragged its neighboring switches down, and the process cascaded across the country.
Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.
Framing Sustainability as a Property of Software Quality
This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.
Discovering Genes Involved in Disease and the Mystery of Missing Heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.
Information processing gives spiritual meaning to life, for those who make it their life's work.
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.
Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
The PrivacyVisor prevents facial detection/identification programs based on Haar-like feature recognition.
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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