acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Stop Asking About Salary History, Employers Urged
From ACM Careers

Stop Asking About Salary History, Employers Urged

Asking job candidates about previous pay when recruiting contributes to the gender pay gap by replicating pay gaps from other organizations, according to a study...

Technology Exposes 'Liars' Through Examination of Facial Muscles
From ACM Careers

Technology Exposes 'Liars' Through Examination of Facial Muscles

Technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University detected 73% of the lies told by trial participants based on the contraction of their facial muscles,...

Developers Are Better With Automation and Reusable Code, Report Says
From ACM Careers

Developers Are Better With Automation and Reusable Code, Report Says

Software teams are changing their coding processes to fit the new dynamics of remote work, according to GitHub's 2021 State of the Octoverse.

DHS Announces Program to Attract and Retain Cybersecurity Talent
From ACM TechNews

DHS Announces Program to Attract and Retain Cybersecurity Talent

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to find and hire cybersecurity professionals.

U.S. Funding Will Create Openly Licensed Computer Science Textbooks
From ACM Careers

U.S. Funding Will Create Openly Licensed Computer Science Textbooks

OpenStax and 12 collaborators have received $1.13 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to create three free, openly licensed textbooks for computer...

AI Maker Space Lets CMU Students 'Sharpen the Cutting Edge of AI'
From ACM TechNews

AI Maker Space Lets CMU Students 'Sharpen the Cutting Edge of AI'

Carnegie Mellon University has opened an artificial intelligence maker space for students and researchers to advance computer vision, speech recognition, and other...

NYC Legislation Requires 'Bias Audit' of AI Hiring Tools
From ACM Careers

NYC Legislation Requires 'Bias Audit' of AI Hiring Tools

A bill passed by the New York City Council will require providers of AI-assisted employment tools to have those systems evaluated each year and the results provided...

Prescriptive Analytics Explored to Optimize Wind Energy Farms
From ACM Careers

Prescriptive Analytics Explored to Optimize Wind Energy Farms

The wind energy industry could soon count on precise analysis to achieve an optimal balance for wind farm productivity and profitability.

Why Aren't Professors Taught to Teach?
From ACM Careers

Why Aren't Professors Taught to Teach?

Professors are experts in their subject matters but many have limited training in actually teaching their students.

Tech VIPs Auction Twitter 'Follows' to Support CS Education
From ACM Careers

Tech VIPs Auction Twitter 'Follows' to Support CS Education

Tech sector leaders and luminaries are uniting to support Code.org and Hour of Code by auctioning off a Twitter "follow," with proceeds benefiting efforts to increase...

Managers Aren't Worried About Keeping IT Workers Happy
From ACM Careers

Managers Aren't Worried About Keeping IT Workers Happy

A survey of more than 1,000 IT and business leaders found that only 16% rank employee satisfaction and retention as a top priority.

Tackling the Pangenomics Computing Challenge
From ACM Careers

Tackling the Pangenomics Computing Challenge

Christopher Batten at Cornell University is leading the Panorama project, a five-year, $5 million effort to create the first integrated rack scale acceleration...

Apple's Original Computer Fetches $500,000 at U.S. Auction
From ACM Careers

Apple's Original Computer Fetches $500,000 at U.S. Auction

An original Apple computer built by firm co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976 has fetched $500,000 at auction in the United States.

Machine Learning Derives Black Hole Motion from Gravitational Waves
From ACM Careers

Machine Learning Derives Black Hole Motion from Gravitational Waves

A multidisciplinary team has discovered a machine learning-based technique capable of automatically deriving a mathematical model for the motion of binary black...

Roboticists Find Inspiration in Starfish Larva
From ACM Careers

Roboticists Find Inspiration in Starfish Larva

Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a tiny robot that mimics the movement of a starfish larva.

Team's Process Enables Wash-and-Wear Biosensors
From ACM Careers

Team's Process Enables Wash-and-Wear Biosensors

Researchers have developed a process that turns clothing fabric into biosensors which measure a muscle's electrical activity.

Why Women Quit Tech
From ACM Careers

Why Women Quit Tech

Why are so many highly qualified and experienced women turning their backs on the tech sector that needs them?

Sorry, Gen Z Isn't Going to Solve Your Tech Skills Crisis
From ACM TechNews

Sorry, Gen Z Isn't Going to Solve Your Tech Skills Crisis

Seventy-two percent of IT leaders believe members of Generation Z (ages 16 to 24) will solve the digital skills shortage, but just 24% of young people view their...

Scholars Debate How to Improve Open Access
From ACM Careers

Scholars Debate How to Improve Open Access

While open-access science has made research available worldwide, some scholars worry that misinformation, fraud, and politicization have become rampant in a system...

Pamela McCorduck, Historian of AI, Dies at 80
From ACM TechNews

Pamela McCorduck, Historian of AI, Dies at 80

Pamela McCorduck, who authored a history of the first two decades of artificial intelligence (AI), has died at 80.
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account