Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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It’s difficult to find two people who have had a greater influence on people’s lives than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval
The past 10 years have delivered two significant revolutions. Microprocessor design has been transformed — leading to multicore processors. And an entirely new software landscape has emerged — revolutionizing how software is deployed, is sold, and interacts with hardware.
My Compiler Does Not Understand Me
Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors.
There are four common pitfalls to avoid when using software metrics in a project management setting.
Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research
By closely connecting research and development Google is able to conduct experiments on an unprecedented scale, often resulting in new capabilities for the company.
Alan Turing’s Other Universal Machine
All computer scientists know about the Universal Turing Machine, one of the foundation stones of theoretical computer science. Much less well known is the practical stored program computer Turing proposed after the war in February 1946.
A searchable meta-graph can connect even troublesome house elves and other supernatural beings to scholarly folk categories.
Large-Scale Complex IT Systems
The reductionism behind today's software-engineering methods breaks down in the face of systems complexity.
Predatory Scholarly Publishing
In a typical business, you have two parties: sellers and buyers. In scholarly publishing you also have sellers and buyers, these are the publishers and the research libraries. However, you have two additional parties. On one side, authors. On the other, editors and reviewers.
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities to users.
A novel paradigm for programming reactive systems centered on naturally specified modular behavior.
Technical Perspective: For Better or Worse, Benchmarks Shape a Field
Like other IT fields, computer architects initially reported incomparable results. We quickly saw the folly of this approach. We then went through a sequence of performance metrics. When a field has good benchmarks, we settle debates and the field makes rapid progress.
Do Small IT Firms Benefit From Higher Process Capability?
Evidence suggests small firms can reap rewards from developing a high level of formal process capability.
Preparing Computing Students For the Designer Role
The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predictions for the next 10 years predicts lower-than-average growth in programming jobs, but dramatic growth in designer jobs. What are the implications for what and how we teach?
Electronic patient records contain a treasure trove of data, and researchers are using natural language processing technology to mine the structured data and free text.
Local and national governments are turning to open data to cut their costs, increase transparency and efficiency, and respond to the needs of citizens.
Exploring the technology trends in basic, integrated, and cloud data services.
Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
Increased attention to cybersecurity has not resulted in improved cybersecurity.
Security of the Internet and the Known Unknowns
Seeking answers to questions about Internet vulnerabilities.
Why Rumors Spread So Quickly in Social Networks
A few hubs with many connections share with many individuals with few connections.
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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