acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI
From ACM News

Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI

Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...

An Alternate Reality Game That Takes Freshmen Orientation to a New Level
From ACM Careers

An Alternate Reality Game That Takes Freshmen Orientation to a New Level

A group of teenagers has been interrogating me for almost an hour.

Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
From ACM News

Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World

One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.

Want Awesome Robots? You'll Have to Best These Challenges
From ACM Opinion

Want Awesome Robots? You'll Have to Best These Challenges

We are living in the midst of a profound technological restructuring of human society. The machines that once only frolicked in science fiction have begun to infiltrate...

Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
From ACM Careers

Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

The Emotional Chatbots Are Here to Probe Our Feelings
From ACM Careers

The Emotional Chatbots Are Here to Probe Our Feelings

When Eugenia Kuyda created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives...

Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees
From ACM Careers

Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees

I don't think sci-fi saw this coming. For so long, futuristic books and films have promised us robots like C-3PO that translate alien languages and assist us in...

Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World
From ACM Careers

Brilliant New Headlights ­se a Million Pixels to Talk to the World

For the most part, digital technology is all about dumping things that move.

Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World
From ACM Careers

Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alexa Takes Over The World

When it first launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment.

The Researcher Who Wants to Bring AI to Factories
From ACM Careers

The Researcher Who Wants to Bring AI to Factories

Gargantuan Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn employs more than 1 million people and tens of thousands of robots making iPhones and other electronics.

It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments
From ACM News

It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments

The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...

A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of Iot
From ACM Careers

A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of Iot

The Internet of Things security crisis persists, as billions of inadequately secured webcams, refrigerators, and more flood homes around the world.

Want to Really Teach a Robot? Command It with Vr
From ACM Careers

Want to Really Teach a Robot? Command It with Vr

Do me a favor and grab and object near you. Anything will do.

Virtual Therapists Help Veterans Open Up About Ptsd
From ACM Careers

Virtual Therapists Help Veterans Open Up About Ptsd

When US troops return home from a tour of duty, each person finds their own way to resume their daily lives.

This 'ghost Gun' Machine Now Makes ­ntraceable Metal Handguns
From ACM Careers

This 'ghost Gun' Machine Now Makes ­ntraceable Metal Handguns

For the past five years, Cody Wilson has applied every possible advance in digital manufacturing technology to the mission of undermining government attempts at...

The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It
From ACM Careers

The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and a black turtleneck.

God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger
From ACM Careers

God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger

Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop...

I Helped Create Facebook's Ad Machine. Here's How I'd Fix It
From ACM Opinion

I Helped Create Facebook's Ad Machine. Here's How I'd Fix It

This month, two magnificently embarrassing public-relations disasters rocked the Facebook money machine like nothing else in its history.

Live the Maddening Life of a Traffic Engineer with a $3 Game
From ACM Careers

Live the Maddening Life of a Traffic Engineer with a $3 Game

The air sings with four-letter words. The iPad sits stoic as fingers poke, jab, and prod at its screen.

Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees
From ACM Opinion

Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees

Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account