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BLOG@CACM Aug 19 2013

Turing’s 1936 Paper and the First Dutch Computers

The following question has polarized the computer-science community: Did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' influence the early history of computer building? "Yes, certainly" and "No, definitely not" are often-heard answers. A third, more nuanced, response acknowledges a diversity of local computing habits in the 1940s-1950s, including Dutch computing habits that were based on Turing's 1936 "universal machine" concept.

Edgar Daylight

News Aug 1 2013

A New Approach to Information Storage

Disk drives and solid-state drives have long served as the foundation for computer storage, but breakthroughs in molecular and DNA science could revolutionize the field.

Samuel Greengard

Opinion Aug 1 2013

The Air Gap: SCADA's Enduring Security Myth

Attempting to use isolation as a security strategy for critical systems is unrealistic in an increasingly connected world.

Eric Byres

News Aug 1 2013

Patient, Heal Thyself

New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?

Alex Wright

Practice Aug 1 2013

Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices

Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?

Alex Nicolaou

Practice Aug 1 2013

Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization

An overview of techniques to speed page loading.

Tammy Everts

Opinion Aug 1 2013

Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method

Software is supposed be a part of computer science, and science demands proof.

George V. Neville-Neil

Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method, illustration

Research and Advances Aug 1 2013

Are We Free to Code the Law?

We should be, for the sake of millions of people with pressing legal needs.

Marc Lauritsen

Are We Free to Code the Law?, illustration

BLOG@CACM Jul 31 2013

Towards Empirical Answers to the Core Problems of Software Engineering

Can empirical research give us an answer to the big problems?

Bertrand Meyer

BLOG@CACM Jul 18 2013

Leaping the Exascale Chasm

The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution and fidelity, continued advances in semiconductor capabilities, and economic and political competition.

Daniel Reed

BLOG@CACM Jul 3 2013

So, Who Won The Battle Of The Brains?

And the winner of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is...

Chas Kurtz

BLOG@CACM Jul 3 2013

The Heat Is On

Students work together to solve complicated problems while competing at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Chas Kurtz

BLOG@CACM Jul 3 2013

Here We Go!

The ACM ICPC kicks off!

Chas Kurtz

Research and Advances Jul 1 2013

Cake Cutting: Not Just Child's Play

How to fairly allocate divisible resources, and why computer scientists should take notice.

Ariel D. Procaccia

Cake Cutting: Not Just Child's Play, illustration

Research and Advances Jul 1 2013

Information Distance Between What I Said and What It Heard

The RSVP voice-recognition search engine improves speech recognition and translation accuracy in question answering.

Practice Jul 1 2013

Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming

Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.

Samy Al Bahra

Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming, illustration

Practice Jul 1 2013

Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures

Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.

Mathieu Desnoyers

Opinion Jul 1 2013

Plenty More Hacker Motivations

Exploring the malicious hacker problem, Zheng-chuan Xu et al.'s "Why Computer Talents Become Computer Hackers" (Apr. 2013) overlooked many motivations for computer talents becoming computer hackers.

CACM Staff

News Jul 1 2013

Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside

New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.

Esther Shein

News Jul 1 2013

Backing Creativity

Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.

Neil Savage

Research and Advances Jun 1 2013

Consequence Analysis of Complex Events on Critical U.S. Infrastructure

How to mitigate a cyber-physical attack that disables the transportation network and releases a cloud of chlorine gas.

Research and Advances Jun 1 2013

Incentives and Rewarding in Social Computing

Praise, pay, and promote crowd-member workers to elicit desired behavioral responses and performance levels.

Ognjen Scekic, Hong-Linh Truong, and Schahram Dustdar

Incentives and Rewarding in Social Computing, illustration

Opinion Jun 1 2013

Q&A: Cracking the Code

Turing Award recipients Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali talk about proofs, probability, and poker.

Leah Hoffmann

Opinion Jun 1 2013

How to Claim Your Fair Share in Academic Publishing

In his editor's letter "To Boycott or Not to Boycott" (Mar. 2013), Moshe Y. Vardi said the traditional author partnership with commercial publishers has turned into an abusive relationship. It is time computer scientists broke off that relationship,

CACM Staff

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