acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field
From ACM TechNews

Tech Girlz Rule: Microsoft Camps Designed to Draw Young Women Into Field

Microsoft's Fargo, ND campus drew participants from multiple states to a three-day event designed to spark interest and provide role models for the next generation...

Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?
From ACM News

Why Are China's Universities Losing Their Star Students?

It happens every summer. In the weeks after the annual National College Entrance Examination, new high school graduates wait for the list. For years, who gets...

China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
From ACM News

China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower

China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...

How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars
From ACM Careers

How ­niversities Will Produce the Next Generation of Ict Stars

The dot-com bust of the early 2000s had a devastating effect on the number of students enrolling in college ICT programs. It has taken almost a decade to recover...

From ACM Opinion

The Master's as the New Bachelor's

William Klein's story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor's in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living...

City Students Discover Love of Science
From ACM Careers

City Students Discover Love of Science

A 10-year retrospective study has validated Project Exploration's personalized, out-of-school time approach to science education for urban teenagers.

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
From ACM Careers

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted...

Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise
From ACM News

Ibm Ceo Candidate Talks About His Rise

Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and group executive for systems and technology...

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates
From ACM CareerNews

Future Tech Jobs: We Need Social Science Graduates

With interconnectivity at the heart of the social Web, forward-looking technology companies are now embracing the idea of hiring more social science graduates to...

Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers
From ACM Careers

Camp Preps Teens For Cybersecurity Careers

The Community College of Baltimore County this month held a five-day cybersecurity camp for teenagers in an effort to get high school students interested in security...

Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps
From ACM Careers

Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps

Students and professors at The University of Alabama are working together to develop beneficial smartphone applications, including health related apps for blindness...

Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface
From ACM Careers

Nsf Funds $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface

The NSF  has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington...

Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
From ACM Careers

Software Could Help Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

A team of undergraduate computer scientists and their professor at South Dakota State University are building software to protect people in Africa and North America...

Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees
From ACM Careers

Most States Do a Poor Job Preparing Students For Science or Technology Degrees

New rankings show that K-12 schools in most of the 50 states are doing a poor job of preparing students for science and engineering careers. Massachusetts leads...

At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe
From ACM CareerNews

At Mature Techs, A Young Vibe

The largest technology companies, from IBM to Microsoft to Hewlett-Packard, are ramping up efforts to attract the best and brightest at America's top campuses....

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say
From ACM Careers

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught? Yes, Researchers Say

According to Babson College researchers, there is overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced students'...

How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?
From ACM TechNews

How Are Students Learning Programming in a Post-Basic World?

Since the Basic programming language has faded into obscurity, there is no single lingua franca across the entire PC user community to function as a default starter...

Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers
From ACM Careers

Engaging Students' Interest Early Promotes Pursuit of STEM Careers

A new study published in the journal Science Education finds that sparking students' interest in science at an early age is more effective at steering them toward...

The Multiplayer Classroom
From ACM Careers

The Multiplayer Classroom

With a fresh perspective on education, Rensselaer Professor Lee Sheldon's new book details how to pattern a classroom after a multiplayer video game.

­tah Students May Earn Tuition Back from Video Games
From ACM Careers

­tah Students May Earn Tuition Back from Video Games

Three student projects from one of the University of Utah's computer game development classes have been accepted for sale on Xbox Live Indie Games, an online computer...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account