Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: CSTA letter
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: blog@CACM
DEPARTMENT: In the virtual extension
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
It Is a Pivotal Time For K-12 Computer Science
Many colleges and universities now have ongoing outreach and mentoring programs because they understand that waiting for students to come to them is a recipe for disaster. Interest …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
In CS Education, Educate the Educators First
As long as CS educators cannot agree about the fundamental importance of mathematics is an essential aspect of a proper CS education, practice will remain below the professional …DEPARTMENT: blog@CACM
CS Woes: Deadline-Driven Research, Academic Inequality
In excerpts from the BLOG@CACM expert blog, Jeannette M. Wing writes about the negative effects of deadline-driven research, and Mark Guzdial discusses the role of computer science faculty in fostering inequality.DEPARTMENT: In the virtual extension
In the Virtual Extension
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Crowdsourcing and the Question of Expertise
There is an in inherent weakness to crowdsourcing that should bother computer scientists and computer users alike. It's the fact there is no clear difference between "the wisdom …COLUMN: News
Blueprints For Self-Assembly
Researchers are using tools from information theory and computer science to facilitate the automatic creation of nanoscale structures.Ready For a Web OS?
The hegemony of the traditional desktop operating system is starting to fracture with the emergence of a new generation of Web browsers that may finally herald the long-awaited convergence of Web and OS.Making Automation Work
Today's automated systems provide enormous safety and convenience. However, when glitches, problems, or breakdowns occur, the results can be catastrophic.Problem Solvers
This year's Grace Hopper Celebration focused on using technology for social good.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Opening Remarks
Highlighting efforts and providing the rationale to increase the participation and success of underrepresented groups in computing.Israel's Technology Industry as an Economic Growth Engine
How government-industry collaboration can have far-reaching economic influences.Computing's Paradigm
Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.Broken Builds
Frequent broken builds could be symptomatic of deeper problems within a development project.A 'Smart' Cyberinfrastructure For Research
A view of semantic computing and its role in research.SECTION: Practice
A Threat Analysis of RFID Passports
An RFID-passport attack is more plausible than skimming RFID information. Do RFID passports make us vulnerable to identity theft?What DNS Is Not
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?SECTION: Contributed articles
The Bulk Multicore Architecture For Improved Programmability
Easing the programmer's burden does not compromise system performance or increase the complexity of hardware implementation.Computer Science in the Conceptual Age
University CS departments are incorporating game design and development to prepare their students for the game industry's expectations.SECTION: Review articles
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses
Integrating computer games into existing CS courses may help attract students to the field, but there are guidelines to be considered.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Design Tools For the Rest of Us
There are many who believe we are on the verge of the biggest change in the way products are made since the Industrial Revolution. This is a revolution where individuals will …Designing Plush Toys With a Computer
We introduce Plushie, an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys. We successfully demonstrated that nonprofessional users could design plush toys or balloon easily using Plushie …Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch
One of the major innovations in computing was the invention of the graphical user interface at MIT, SRI, and Xerox PARC. The combination of computer graphics hardware with a …ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology
ThinSight is a thin form-factor interactive surface technology based on optical sensors embedded inside a regular LCD. These augment the display with the ability to sense a variety of objects near the surface, including fingertips …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
Last month (November 2009, p. 112) we posted a trio of brain teasers, including one as yet unsolved, concerning the covering of a plane.Future Tense: Mightier Than the Pen
The computer reconfigures me.SECTION: Virtual extension
