Communications of the ACM
COLUMN: ACM awards committee
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Emerging markets
COLUMN: Historical reflections
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: Viewpoint
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
The Work of ACM's Awards Committee
ACM currently sponsors over 100 awards for technical and professional excellence. These awards serve many purposes within the computing community.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Computing Paradigm Not a Branch of Science
Computing can't be viewed as a branch of science since it doesn't deal with nature but with an artifact, namely the computerIn the Virtual Extension
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
SQL Databases v. NoSQL Databases
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about NoSQL databases. In fact, there were at least two conferences on the topic in 2009, one on each coast.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Going Mobile
Communications' site performs ably on today's leading mobile systems. However, support for these and other mobile devices will be improved.COLUMN: News
Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.COLUMN: Emerging markets
Development 2.0: The IT-Enabled Transformation of International Development
The fundamental assumptions of international development are changing, increasingly putting the tools for a digital economy into the hands of the world's poor.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Be Careful What You Wish For
Reflections on the decline of mathematical tables.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Cloud Computing and SaaS as New Computing Platforms
To become an industry platform, vendors must open their infrastructure technology to other product companies.COLUMN: Viewpoint
When Network Neutrality Met Privacy
Incorporating the consideration of privacy into the ongoing debate concerning network neutrality.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
The Data-Structure Canon
Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.SECTION: Practice
Cooling the Data Center
What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense
The battle is bigger than most of us realize.A View of Cloud Computing
Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.SECTION: Contributed articles
Recipe For Efficiency: Principles of Power-Aware Computing
Prior work on power management reflects recurring themes that can be leveraged to make future systems more energy efficient.Private Information Retrieval
Cryptographic protocols safeguard the privacy of user queries to public databases.SECTION: Review articles
Functional Logic Programming
Combining the paradigm features of both logic and functional programming makes for some powerful implementations.SECTION: Research highlights
Creativity Helps Influence Prediction Precision
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in machine learning and data mining, with significant advances in terms of both theoretical results and highly visible practical …Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
Customer preferences for products are drifting over time. Product perception and popularity are constantly changing as new selection emerges. Similarly, customer inclinations are evolving, leading them to ever redefine their …Technical Perspective: New Bar Set For Intelligent Vehicles
Sebastian Thrun gives us a glimpse into the design and implementation of two winning DARPA grand challenge entries.Toward Robotic Cars
Recent challenges organized by DARPA have induced a significant advance in technology for autopilots for cars; similar to those already used in aircraft and marine vessels. This article reviews this technology.COLUMN: Last byte
Q&A: Systematic Thinking
Andrew S. Tanenbaum talks about MINIX, microkernels, and electronic voting systems.SECTION: Virtual extension
