Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Advertisement
Information Seeking: Convergence of Search, Recommendations, and Advertising
How to address user information needs amidst a preponderance of data.
In Support of Open Reviews; Better Teaching Through Large-Scale Data Mining
Bertrand Meyer writes about his long-standing decision not to provide anonymous reviews. Greg Linden considers how educational practices could be improved through the data mining of students' schoolwork.
Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?
‘Natural’ Search User Interfaces
Users will speak rather than type, watch video rather than read, and use technology socially rather than alone.
The Rise and Fall of High Performance Fortran
HPF pioneered a high-level approach to parallel programming but failed to win over a broad user community.
Making Information Flow Explicit in HiStar
Features of the new HiStar operating system permit several novel applications, including privacy-preserving, untrusted virus scanners and a dynamic Web server with only a few thousand lines of trusted code.
Technical Perspective: Making Untrusted Code Useful
The following paper combines two important themes in secure computing: assurance and information flow control. For high assurance, a system's Trusted Computing Base needs to be small and the policy simple. Flow control is one such policy.
For almost 50 years we have been riding Moore's Law's exponential curve. Oh, what a ride it has been! No other technology has ever improved at a geometric rate for decades. But exponential trends always slow down, and the end of "Moore's Party" may be near.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following article is now available in its entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
AI Pioneer John Mccarthy, 1927-2011
Artificial intelligence pioneer and Lisp creator John McCarthy, who received the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, passed away on October 23. He was 84.
What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?
Beyond a mind-bending array of business, societal, and technological accomplishments, there’s an often-overlooked side to Steve Jobs and Apple. The company’s contributions to computer science are sparse, particularly in recent years.
Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and nix Developer, Has Passed Away
Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX, has passed away at the age of 70.
Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with their environment.
Abstraction in Hardware System Design
Applying lessons from software languages to hardware languages using Bluespec SystemVerilog.
Verification of Safety-Critical Software
Avionics software safety certification is achieved through objective-based standards.
Big data is about more than size, and LINQ is more than up to the task.
From Blitzkrieg to Bitskrieg: The Military Encounter with Computers
Expect more cyberwarfare on the conventional battlefield and less against civilian infrastructure . . . assuming containment is possible.
How computer scientists can empower journalists, democracy's watchdogs, in the production of news in the public interest.
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to bring readers high-quality articles in an online-only format. The following articles are now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
Exploring the connection of biology with reactive systems to better understand living systems.
Rebooting the CS Publication Process
A proposal for a new cost-free open-access publication model for computer science papers.
Don’t Turn Social Media Into Another ‘Literary Digest’ Poll
The power to predict outcomes based on Twitter data is greatly exaggerated, especially for political elections.
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.
Learn More