acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Meet the Company That's ­sing Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene
From ACM Careers

Meet the Company That's ­sing Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene

In China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.

D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
From ACM Careers

D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm

Not much about Makoto Koike's adult life suggests that he would be a farmer.

'i Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day' 
From ACM Careers

'i Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day' 

After the full repeal of Obamacare stalled in the Senate last month, one of the sharpest and most-shared online rebukes of the Republican turncoats came from one...

Bot and Bothered
From ACM Opinion

Bot and Bothered

Facebook has been working on artificial intelligence that claims to be great at negotiating, makes up its own language and learns to lie.

Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly ­nlikely, Scientists Say
From ACM News

Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly ­nlikely, Scientists Say

Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?

Apple Defends Complying with China Over Vpns
From ACM Careers

Apple Defends Complying with China Over Vpns

Virtual Private Networks are often used to skirt censorship and surveillance in countries with tight restrictions on internet use.

Editing Human Embryos with Crispr Is Moving Ahead; Now's the Time to Work Out the Ethics
From ACM Opinion

Editing Human Embryos with Crispr Is Moving Ahead; Now's the Time to Work Out the Ethics

The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they've successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise.

Nvidia and Remedy ­se Neural Networks For Eerily Good Facial Animation
From ACM Careers

Nvidia and Remedy ­se Neural Networks For Eerily Good Facial Animation

Remedy, the developer behind the likes of Alan Wake and Quantum Break, has teamed up with GPU-maker Nvidia to streamline one of the more costly parts of modern...

Cybersecurity Badge: One Big Step For Girl Scouts, Potentially Giant Leap For Women
From ACM Careers

Cybersecurity Badge: One Big Step For Girl Scouts, Potentially Giant Leap For Women

Girls need to see themselves in the role of white-hat hackers to even the virtual playing field. This badge could be a STEM game-changer.

­.s. Senators to Introduce Bill to Secure 'internet of Things'
From ACM Careers

­.s. Senators to Introduce Bill to Secure 'internet of Things'

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday plans to introduce legislation seeking to address vulnerabilities in computing devices embedded in everyday objects—known...

To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart
From ACM News

To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart

The toughest thing to convey to newcomers at the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas this weekend? Just how far they could go with hacking voting machines set up...

From Computation to the Ocean, a Scientist Finds His Fit
From ACM Careers

From Computation to the Ocean, a Scientist Finds His Fit

"Not a day goes by that I'm not writing computer code to analyze data."

The ­.s. Army Is Teaching Kids How to Hack at Def Con
From ACM Careers

The ­.s. Army Is Teaching Kids How to Hack at Def Con

The U.S. Army is teaching children "white hat," or ethical, hacking skills.

Flush Times For Hackers in Booming Cyber Security Job Market
From ACM Careers

Flush Times For Hackers in Booming Cyber Security Job Market

The surge in far-flung and destructive cyber attacks is not good for national security, but for an increasing number of hackers and researchers, it is great for...

Snopes Faces an ­gly Legal Battle
From ACM Careers

Snopes Faces an ­gly Legal Battle

On Monday, the editorial staff of Snopes.com wrote a short plea for help.

Robots, Start Your Engines!
From ACM News

Robots, Start Your Engines!

There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.

This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors
From ACM Careers

This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors

Autonomous cars often proudly claim to be fitted with a long list of sensors—cameras, ultrasound, radar, lidar, you name it. But if you've ever wondered why so...

Level ­p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
From ACM News

Level ­p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems

In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...

Why Am I Getting So Many Robocalls?
From ACM Careers

Why Am I Getting So Many Robocalls?

People with landline home phones have long suffered unwanted marketing calls. Now these spam calls have made their way to our mobile phones in a big way.

Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
From ACM Careers

Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover

In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account