acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women
From ACM Careers

The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women

Despite women's gains in educational attainment (they are now the majority of college graduates), an ugly gender pay gap persists.

Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
From ACM Careers

Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own

It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.

Women Band Together, Make Inroads Into Tech
From ACM TechNews

Women Band Together, Make Inroads Into Tech

The computer science field remains dominated by men. The U.S. National Science Foundation says the number of women graduating with computer science degrees has...

Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias
From ACM Careers

Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias

When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought...

Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit
From ACM Careers

Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit

How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?

How to Reduce America's Talent Deficit
From ACM CareerNews

How to Reduce America's Talent Deficit

Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of Microsoft, weighs in on what academia and industry can do to produce more graduates with the IT skills...

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
From ACM Careers

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All

Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...

From ACM Careers

New Start-Up Hubs Challenging Silicon Valley: Study

Silicon Valley remains the world's most attractive spot for technology start-ups with other locations around the world catching up, according to a report published...

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
From ACM Careers

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation...

Middle Schoolers Tap Research-Grade Robotic Telescopes
From ACM Careers

Middle Schoolers Tap Research-Grade Robotic Telescopes

Approximately 1,400 middle schoolers will explore the universe with research-grade robotic telescopes over the next three years, thanks to a $1.6 million program...

­.s. Bolsters National Push to Expand Computing Education
From ACM Careers

­.s. Bolsters National Push to Expand Computing Education

Through a five-year, $6.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will...

Nsf Grant to Improve Computer Science Education
From ACM Careers

Nsf Grant to Improve Computer Science Education

Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science, UMass Amherst has won a $6.24 million grant from...

Gates Foundation Awards $3 Million in Mooc Grants
From ACM Careers

Gates Foundation Awards $3 Million in Mooc Grants

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 12 grants, totaling more than $3 million, in new investments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools
From ACM Careers

Byod: Embracing Technology in K-12 Schools

A growing number of schools are joining the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement to better integrate students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops into their classrooms...

Executives & Academics Partner to Advance STEM Education & Careers
From ACM TechNews

Executives & Academics Partner to Advance STEM Education & Careers

The Business-Higher Education Forum, a network of executives and college presidents, is focusing on programs to promote deeper learning and science, technology,...

The True State of Artificial Intelligence
From ACM Careers

The True State of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Korb, from Monash University's Clayton School of Information Technology, will be discussing what stage artificial intelligence has reached in an upcoming...

Online Courses Put Pressure on Third-World ­niversities
From ACM Careers

Online Courses Put Pressure on Third-World ­niversities

How a teacher in El Salvador became an advocate of massive open online courses, and why hardly anyone listens to him yet.

How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley
From ACM Opinion

How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley

When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...

STEM Pathways
From ACM TechNews

STEM Pathways

Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.

Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
From ACM Careers

Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race

Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account