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Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.
Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.
Learning from the Past to Face the Risks of Today
The Space Shuttle software program can provide guidance to today's projects.
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
Content Recommendation on Web Portals
How to offer recommendations to users when they have not specified what they want.
Coping With Linux Distro Fragmentation (visualized in One Giant Diagram)
I describe software incompatibility problems caused by fragmentation in Linux-based operating systems and present one potential solution.
nique School For Coders: Tuition-Free – ntil You’re Hired
A new school for programmers stands behind the ability of its students to find jobs — if you can't find one within a year, tuition is free.
Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
Collaboration With a Robotic Scrub Nurse
Surgeons use hand gestures and/or voice commands without interrupting the natural flow of a procedure.
The NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine builds on the key observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of programmable operations.
Technical Perspective: The Ray-Tracing Engine That Could
It has been an open question whether it is possible to build GPU-targeted high-performance software systems that are themselves programmable. "GPU Ray Tracing" shows how to achieve both programmability and high performance in such a system.
Max Newman: Forgotten Man of Early British Computing
Reflections on a significant, yet often overlooked, computing pioneer.
Moving from Petaflops to Petadata
The race to build ever-faster supercomputers is on, with more contenders than ever before. However, the current goals set for this race may not lead to the fastest computation for particular applications.
A Few Good Reasons to Publish in Communications
The relationship ACM has with the computing community itself is ultimately less important for ACM than the need to continue offering valuable services to you, the reader and member of this community.
‘Small Data’ Enabled Prediction of Obama’s Win, Say Economists
"Big data" from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions.
John C. Reynolds, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor emeritus John C. Reynolds passed away at age 77.
Software Engineer David Notkin, 1955 – 2013
David Notkin, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Q&a: Hacker Culture, Coding, and Free Speech
Anthropologist E. Gabriella Coleman, author of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, is fascinated by hacker culture, and with its notion that software should be free and treated as free speech.
Shape the Future of Computing
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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