Assistant Professor (Distributed Parallel Computing) - UMass Boston - Boston, MA
Boston, MA, United States
Communications of the ACM
Featured Job
Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
From ACM Opinion
Is Google Autocomplete Evil?
"Women shouldn't have rights." "Women shouldn't vote." "Women shouldn't work."
From ACM Careers
How a Grad Student Trying to Build the First Botnet Brought the Internet to Its Knees
On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever.
From ACM News
Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business
Big companies are putting wearables to work.
From ACM News
Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
From ACM News
The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...
From ACM News
Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
From ACM Careers
Moocs Data Offers Promise of Perfect Teaching
When students learn online, every mouse click is tracked.
From ACM Careers
Two-Hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06.
From ACM Opinion
Lavabit Founder Says He Fought Feds to Protect the Constitution
Like a story straight out of the universe of Franz Kafka, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison found himself before a judge in Washington, representing himself against...
From ACM Opinion
The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
From ACM Opinion
.k. Official rges .s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.
From ACM News
Study: 80% of College Students Say They Text in Class
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...
From ACM Opinion
The Decline of Wikipedia
The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.
From ACM Opinion
Former Nsa Chief: Nsa and .s. Cyber Command Are Now 'indistinguishable'
The public's trust in government has been battered by repeated abuses of power, but it's not the NSA's fault.
From ACM Careers
Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.
From ACM Opinion
Why I Am napologetic About Paywalls or Promotion
Late last week I posted a short essay on LinkedIn, where I am an Influencer, called "The best case study you'll ever read."
From ACM Opinion
Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...
From ACM Careers
Qualcomm to Build Neuro-Inspired Chips
The world's largest smartphone chipmaker, Qualcomm, says it is ready to start helping partners manufacture a radically different kind of a chip—one that mimics...
From ACM Opinion
Dina Katabi
Syrian-born Dina Katabi is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded a MacArthur last...
Featured Jobs
Computing Undergraduate Student Intern - Spring 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
Just-In-Time Compilation and Optimizations of HPC Applications - Postdoctoral Researcher - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS) - University of Rhode Island - Kingston, RI
Kingston, RI, United States