acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost ­.s. Tech Companies
From ACM News

Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost ­.s. Tech Companies

Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.

Spinoffs from Spyland
From ACM News

Spinoffs from Spyland

It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.

Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
From ACM Opinion

Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock

Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...

Computer Scientist Makes a Power Play
From ACM Careers

Computer Scientist Makes a Power Play

A Binghamton University researcher aims to slash the energy used by computing systems ranging from smart phones to data centers.

Tweets Can Help Track National Health Trends — and Local Ones, Too
From ACM Careers

Tweets Can Help Track National Health Trends — and Local Ones, Too

A new study by a team from Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities probed flu-related tweets from New York City and concluded that Twitter data can accurately...

Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
From ACM News

Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow

We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.

The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
From ACM Careers

The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.

­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost
From ACM News

­.s. Navy Strategists Have a Long History of Finding the Lost

The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
From ACM Careers

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.

All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
From ACM Careers

All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest

When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.

Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic
From ACM Careers

Genome Sequencing Stumbles Towards the Clinic

Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.

The World's Richest Ex-Hackers
From ACM Careers

The World's Richest Ex-Hackers

Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
From ACM Careers

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.

The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
From ACM Opinion

The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started

Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...

Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
From ACM News

Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information

The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...

Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
From ACM Opinion

Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It

I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...

Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
From ACM News

Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind

While you are in space, could you keep a diary?

Computer Science: The Learning Machines
From ACM News

Computer Science: The Learning Machines

Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...

From ACM Opinion

Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029

In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...

Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
From ACM News

Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within

After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account