Catastrophism and reliance on dubious studies have no place in serious discussions of software engineering.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Searching for scholarly literature became far easier with search engines like Google or Google Scholar. And while it is far easier now to find targeted information, the quality of the results is less assured.
Developing Tools and Resources For Those in Practice
To many younger software practitioners, ACM remains incorrectly stereotyped as an organization for researchers or professors but not targeted to individuals who design, implement, deliver, and deploy software for a living. The ACM Practitioner Board aims to change that.
Techniques and Applications For Sentiment Analysis
The main applications and challenges of one of the hottest research areas in computer science.
I would like to add a bit of etymological history concerning the word "robot" to Vinton G. Cerf's President's Letter "What's a Robot?" (Jan. 2013).
The Evolution of Web Development For Mobile Devices
Building websites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge.
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.
Scientists at the Blue Brain Project are using supercomputers to simulate neural connections in a 3-D model of a slice of mammalian brain.
Offline Management in Virtualized Environments
How to run virtual machines together with physical machines, especially when sharing computational resources.
Why Computer Talents Become Computer Hackers
Start with talent and skills driven by curiosity and hormones, constrained only by moral values and judgment.
Securing the Future of Computer Science; Reconsidering Analog Computing
Mark Guzdial sees hope in computer science education efforts in the U.K. Daniel Reed suggests we should not be so quick to discard analog computing.
"Open access content" is a topic that has been widely discussed and, with the advent of the Internet and the Web along with "digital publishing," it has become an important touch-point for the research community.
What Does ‘Big Data’ Mean (Part 4)?
The "big variety" use case is examined, in this fourth post in a series on big data.
Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.
Passwords Getting Painful, Computing Still Blissful
Jason Hong wonders how anyone can follow the mounting complexity of password rules, and Daniel Reed ponders the attractions of computing.
Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.
Understanding the Impact of Video Quality on User Engagement
As Internet-based videos become mainstream, user expectation for high quality is constantly increasing. In this context, it is crucial for content providers to understand how video quality affects user engagement and how to best invest their resources to optimize video quality.
Technical Perspective: Video Quality Assessment in the Age of Internet Video
With video delivery, it appears that once again "the Internet changes everything." In this changed environment, what measures of quality are most relevant, and how are they obtained from consumers no longer tethered to a single delivery service?
There has been sound and fury in the Open Access movement over the past year.
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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