acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Data Science Jobs Are a Top Pick for Gen Z, Report Finds
From ACM Careers

Data Science Jobs Are a Top Pick for Gen Z, Report Finds

Gen Z considers the role of data scientist to be a top occupation, ranking it No. 4 in job satisfaction, according to a Glassdoor report.

IBM Remains Top Recipient of U.S. Patents in 2020
From ACM Careers

IBM Remains Top Recipient of U.S. Patents in 2020

IBM held its long-time place as the top recipient of U.S. patents in 2020 with 9,130 inventions, followed by Samsung, Canon, and Microsoft, according to research...

Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News
From ACM Opinion

Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News

There's an old saying that you shouldn't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
From ACM News

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...

Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?
From ACM Careers

Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?

Answer: It depends on how you define success.

Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015
From ACM Careers

Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015

PayScale crunched the numbers for Fortune and identified the grad degrees that lead to lucrative careers—and those that lead to high stress and low pay.

What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables
From ACM Careers

What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables

The top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn't sharper televisions, smarter watches.

Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
From ACM News

Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?

When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
From ACM Careers

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...

Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?
From ACM Careers

Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?

In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...

The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks
From ACM Careers

The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks

The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...

A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions
From ACM Opinion

A Peek at Google's M&a Ambitions

Don Harrison became Google's head of mergers and acquisitions about a year ago.

10 Questions For Ibm's Katharine Frase
From ACM Opinion

10 Questions For Ibm's Katharine Frase

Dr. Katharine Frase was appointed chief technology officer of IBM in March 2013. She sets IBM's technical strategy and defines areas of growth in addition to cultivating...

The Big Data Employment Boom
From ACM Careers

The Big Data Employment Boom

Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.

Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs
From ACM Careers

Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs

With data analytics now one of the fastest growing fields in IT, it stands to reason that data scientists are in demand. That's great for people with the requisite...

Inside the Drone Economy
From ACM Careers

Inside the Drone Economy

Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study...

Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict
From ACM Opinion

Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict

Statistician Nate Silver isn't famous because he's a mathematical genius. (Although, he is.)

The Great Surveillance Boom
From ACM Careers

The Great Surveillance Boom

Video surveillance is big business. Expect it to get bigger. After law enforcement used closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help identify last week's Boston...

Qnx: The Little-Known Company That Controls Your Car
From ACM Careers

Qnx: The Little-Known Company That Controls Your Car

Under the bright lights of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January, a stunning black Bentley sat with the top down on the showroom floor.

Ibm's Ginni Rometty Looks Ahead
From ACM Opinion

Ibm's Ginni Rometty Looks Ahead

Ginni Rometty's first customer conference as CEO of IBM was an unusual affair, especially by Big Blue's buttoned-up standards.
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account