acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Can You Out-Race a Computer?
From ACM Careers

Can You Out-Race a Computer?

A deep-learning algorithm can size up a neighborhood better than humans.

Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
From ACM Careers

Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear

On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
From ACM Careers

New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind

Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...

The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun
From ACM Careers

The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun

Like many guys from age 13–65, I suffer from LTAMFFT Syndrome.

Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation
From ACM Careers

Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation

Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.

Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
From ACM News

Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality

Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...

RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects
From ACM Careers

RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects

Researchers have developed a search algorithm that improves a robot's ability to find and navigate to UHF RFID-tagged objects located throughout a home.

A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
From ACM News

A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm

Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.

How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption
From ACM Careers

How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption

In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.

Silicon Valley Talent Wars: Engineers, Come Get Your $250k Salary
From ACM Careers

Silicon Valley Talent Wars: Engineers, Come Get Your $250k Salary

In Silicon Valley, even the smallest team of talented engineers can hit the jackpot.

Ios 8 Brings Big Boost For Web Programmers
From ACM Careers

Ios 8 Brings Big Boost For Web Programmers

Web programmers rejoice: Apple's new iOS 8 has added support for standards that will let you build better games and more productive websites.

The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
From ACM News

The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents

During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...

Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered
From ACM News

Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered

The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11.

MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
From ACM News

MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience

When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.

College Students Learning Cobol Make More Money
From ACM Opinion

College Students Learning Cobol Make More Money

Yes, you read the title of this column correctly.

Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
From ACM Careers

Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest

A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...

How Network Theory Is Revealing Previously ­nknown Patterns in Sport
From ACM News

How Network Theory Is Revealing Previously ­nknown Patterns in Sport

If you've ever watched soccer, you'll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams.

Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
From ACM Opinion

Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.

How Main Street Will Pay For Home Depot's Data Breach
From ACM News

How Main Street Will Pay For Home Depot's Data Breach

Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.

IBM to Sell Watson as a Big-Data Tool
From ACM Careers

IBM to Sell Watson as a Big-Data Tool

Say you're an executive running an online marketing campaign for a new car, and you want to figure out which consumers in which parts of the country are likely...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account