Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints?
Finding a better solution by thinking about the problem and its solution, rather than just thinking about the code.
Charting the Future: Scholarly Publishing in CS
We would like to update you on three key policy issues ACM's Publications Board is currently discussing, give you a glimpse of what some of the leaders of the field have told us, and invite your input into the discussion.
Agile Methods: A Follow-Up ACM Webinar
A follow-up session to the ACM webinar Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly will take place on March 27.
Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.
A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.
Copyrightability of Java APIs Revisited
A recent case challenges the long-standing view that application program interfaces are not protectable under copyright law.
The Real Software Crisis: Repeatability as a Core Value
Sharing experiences running artifact evaluation committees for five major conferences.
What was once centralized or federated technology governance is increasingly participatory.
Designing Statistical Privacy For Your Data
Preparing data for public release requires significant attention to fundamental principles of privacy.
While the ability to find and access information remains a critical goal of the ACM Digital Library, it will move to a space in which interaction becomes a possibility. The space will contain people, datasets, software, simulations, publications, and more.
Humans in Computing: Growing Responsibilities For Researchers
Considering the role of institutional review boards in computing research.
The creator of the Eiffel programming language discusses his career in industry and academia, "Design by Contract," and his views on Agile software development.
Meta II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium
Revisiting Schorre's 1962 compiler-compiler.
Privacy Implications of Health Information Seeking on the Web
A revealing picture of how personal health information searches become the property of private corporations.
Guido van Rossum speaks exclusively with CACM about the computer language Python, which he created a quarter-century ago.
Feature-Based Development: The Lasagne and the Linguini
Agile authors tell us that we can build systems one feature at a time. Can we?
Software Engineers with Autism Add Value to the Corporate Workplace
Companies are training workers with autism spectrum disorders for software testing, quality assurance
What Is Your Research Culture? Part 3: The Web of Science
Experienced institutions know that the Web of Science is inapplicable to the evaluation of computer science research and researchers. It is time that others learned too.
Automated Support For Diagnosis and Repair
Model checking and logic-based learning together deliver automated support, especially in adaptive and autonomous systems.
Verifying Computations Without Reexecuting Them
From theoretical possibility to near practicality.
Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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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