A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Peter G. Neumann views computers and their related issues holistically.
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving software design.
The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
Interfacing between languages is becoming more important
The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball
A broader class of consistency guarantees can, and perhaps should, be offered to clients that read shared data.
Technical Perspective: The Cleanest Garbage Collection
In quite a tour de force, the authors of the following paper have built a provably correct real-time garbage collector for reconfigurable hardware (field programmable gate arrays).
And Then There Were None: A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector For Reconfigurable Hardware
We present a garbage collector synthesized directly to hardware, capable of collecting a heap of uniform objects completely concurrently. These heaps are composed entirely of objects of a fixed shape. Thus, the size of the data fields and the location of pointers of each object are fixed.
ACM Multimedia 2013 – Best Papers and the Revision Process
This year ACM Multimedia had a new revision process that may be of interest for other ACM conferences. Let's review it and see also the best papers selection.
The End of The American Network
The U.S. National Security Agency's pervasive phone and Internet eavesdropping and surveillance operations is making the surveillance technology in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, seem rather primitive in comparison.
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
Agile and SEMAT: Perfect Partners
Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone.
Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance
Merging the art and science of software development.
What Regulators Can Do to Advance Privacy Through Design
Seeking to address the challenges of privacy by design through regulatory process and formal law.
Augmented Reality Browsers: Essential Products or Only Gadgets?
How lessons learned from the evolution of the Web and Web browsers can influence the development of AR browsers.
Computing Technologies For Reflective, Creative Care of People with Dementia
Mobile apps manage data on individual residents to help carers deliver more person-centered care.
Media Tablets For Mobile Learning
Tablets offer hope for improving learning and collaboration but only if truly integrated into learning settings.
The competitive nature of AT, the scarcity of expertise, and the vast profits potential, makes for a secretive community where implementation details are difficult to find.
Adaptation of Audiovisual Contents and Their Delivery Means
Coupling content adaptation with context awareness is a promising approach for improving the user's experience.
Data Science Workflow: Overview and Challenges
I provide an overview of the data science workflow and highlight some challenges that data scientists face in their work.
A Blueprint for Building a Quantum Computer
Quantum computer architecture holds the key to building commercially viable systems.
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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