acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

How Garmin Failed to See the Iphone Threat
From ACM Opinion

How Garmin Failed to See the Iphone Threat

About nine years ago, I had a question for Min Kao, the CEO of the GPS concern Garmin. His answer was determined, and I thought of it as I watched the news from...

Meet the Intel Man Who's Out to Beat Arm in Smartphones
From ACM Opinion

Meet the Intel Man Who's Out to Beat Arm in Smartphones

It's not often you meet someone in the tech industry for whom the only way is up, but Intel's Michael A. Bell is one of those people.

Sequoia Supercomputer Towers Above the Rest in Latest Top500 List
From ACM Careers

Sequoia Supercomputer Towers Above the Rest in Latest Top500 List

Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, sits atop the latest TOP500 list of the...

Robot Learns Language By Babbling with a Human
From ACM Careers

Robot Learns Language By Babbling with a Human

Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire's School of Computer Science show a robot can begin to develop basic language skills through conversation with...

­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
From ACM Careers

­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes

The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...

Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'
From ACM Careers

Mit, Intel ­nveil New Initiatives Addressing 'big Data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...

Experts Warn of Shortage of U.s. Cyber Pros
From ACM Careers

Experts Warn of Shortage of U.s. Cyber Pros

Leading cyber experts warned of a shortage of talented computer security experts in the United States, making it difficult to protect corporate and government networks...

Developers Are Key to Winning the Tech Wars
From ACM Careers

Developers Are Key to Winning the Tech Wars

Many smartphone manufacturers draw from the same stylebook: Make it sleek. Make it black. But what may determine the winner of the smartphone wars is the apps.

Radiation-Resistant Circuits Made From Mechanical Parts
From ACM Careers

Radiation-Resistant Circuits Made From Mechanical Parts

University of Utah engineers designed microscopic mechanical devices that withstand intense radiation and heat, so they can be used in circuits for robots and computers...

Algorithm Aids Robot-Human Collaboration in the Factory
From ACM Careers

Algorithm Aids Robot-Human Collaboration in the Factory

A new algorithm developed at MIT will allow robots and humans to work side by side on a factory floor.

From ACM Careers

Apple May Be Hiring Engineers to Redesign 30-Pin Dock Connector

Apple is currently looking for a new "connector design engineer" to work at its Cupertino headquarters. Why does anyone care? The job postings lend credence to...

A Dive Into the Digital Deep
From ACM News

A Dive Into the Digital Deep

When next winter's storms subside, a specialized ship will begin a slow crossing, lowering a skinny cable into its wake along a precisely prescribed path: the shortest...

'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize
From ACM News

'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize

Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...

­ber-Sensors Will Safeguard Food, Water Supplies
From ACM Careers

­ber-Sensors Will Safeguard Food, Water Supplies

Researchers are exploring the challenges of developing nanosensors able to detect salmonella, E-coli, and other key targets in highly complex chemical and biological...

Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple
From ACM Opinion

Jonathan Ive: Simplicity Isn't Simple

"Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas...

Daniela Rus Named Csail Director
From ACM Careers

Daniela Rus Named Csail Director

Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...

Bre Pettis: 3d Printing's First Celebrity
From ACM Careers

Bre Pettis: 3d Printing's First Celebrity

Bre Pettis looks like a throwback. He’s got an Elvis Presley-meets-Buddy Holly thing going on with his chunky sideburns, thick-rimmed black glasses, and sculpted...

'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training
From ACM Careers

'Smart Machine' Enhances Navy Pilot Training

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in flight training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more...

Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
From ACM Opinion

Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future

Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...

Putting the Tech in Metrotech
From ACM Careers

Putting the Tech in Metrotech

MakerBot Industries' 3-D printers can create everything from jewelry to bottle openers seemingly out of thin air. Now developers are hoping the hip tech company...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account