acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

The Cloud Wars Are Seriously Heating ­p
From ACM Careers

The Cloud Wars Are Seriously Heating ­p

Most consumers may not realize it, but there's a furious battle playing out right behind the products they use every day.  

Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector
From ACM Careers

Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector

Joysticks at their fingertips, the mostly male students packing the classroom lift their virtual helicopters into the air, part of a new cottage industry that's...

Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways
From ACM Careers

Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways

Innovator: Thomas Schmickl  Age: 46  Zoology professor and founder of the Artificial Life Laboratory at the University of Graz in Austria

Recognizing Correct Code
From ACM Careers

Recognizing Correct Code

MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order...

Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It
From ACM Careers

Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It

President Barack Obama spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to "fix our politics." His first solution? Stop gerrymandering...

A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth
From ACM Opinion

A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth

The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit. On August 5, 2015, it peered down at the half of Earth that it can see, a hemisphere...

Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years
From ACM Careers

Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years

New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later.

Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants
From ACM News

Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants

The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through a quiet street just north of the Louvre Museum, past chic cafes and part of the French...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
From ACM Careers

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
From ACM Careers

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar
From ACM Careers

Catching Heartbeats with Millimeter-Wave Radar

Researchers at Kyoto University and Panasonic Corp. have developed a sensing system that combines millimeter-wave radar and a signal analysis algorithm to measure...

Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style
From ACM Careers

Defending Your Computer From Cyber-Attacks, Sun Tzu Style

Might the key to defeating malware be the introduction of a bit of chaos?

Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business
From ACM Careers

Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business

IBM is not a design company.

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
From ACM News

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...

Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future
From ACM Opinion

Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future

There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?

Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
From ACM Careers

Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign

Look—We have no idea how this election will turn out.

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist
From ACM Careers

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Sarah Parcak can see looting at ancient sites—from space.

'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
From ACM Careers

'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists

Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...

Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now
From ACM Careers

Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.

Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
From ACM News

Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up

A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account