Communications of the ACM
Technology Has Social Consequences
A conference paper submission constitutes privileged communication. In theory, reviewers should immediately "forget" what they have read. How could a program committee member …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Preserve Privacy in Statistical Correlations
Many thanks for Cynthia Dwork's article "A Firm Foundation for Private Data Analysis" (Jan. 2011), explaining why, in trying to formalize what is perfect privacy, we cannot …In the Virtual Extension
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Stonebraker on Data Warehouses
Data warehouses are not only increasing in size and complexity, but also in their importance to business. Michael Stonebraker shares 10 key ideas on the topic.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Let ACM Help You Find Your Next Job 'Online'
For the most coveted jobs and for organizations looking to hire experienced and talented workers, few online resources are more valuable than ACM's own Career and Job Center (http://jobs.acm.org), the engine driving the Careers …COLUMN: News
Sorting Through Photos
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.I, Domestic Robot
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and situational awareness.Data Optimization in Developing Nations
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters in the developing world.Deus Ex Machina
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.Web Science Meets Network Science
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeting, and Privacy
Studying how privacy regulation might impact economic activity on the advertising-supported Internet.COLUMN: Education
Reaching Learners Beyond Our Hallowed Halls
Rethinking the design of computer science courses and broadening the definition of computing education both on and off campus.COLUMN: Law and technology
Bell Labs and Centralized Innovation
In early 1935, a man named Clarence Hickman had a secret machine, about six feet tall, standing in his office. Hickman was an engineer at Bell Labs, and his invention was, …COLUMN: Interview
An Interview with Steve Furber
Steve Furber, designer of the seminal BBC Microcomputer System and the widely used ARM microprocessor, reflects on his career.COLUMN: Viewpoint
The Importance of Reviewing the Code
Highlighting the significance of the often overlooked underlying software used to produce research results.SECTION: Practice
The One-Second War
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?Weapons of Mass Assignment
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.SECTION: Contributed articles
Brain-Computer Interfaces For Communication and Control
The brain's electrical signals enable people without muscle control to physically interact with the world.The Future of Microprocessors
Energy efficiency is the new fundamental limiter of processor performance, way beyond numbers of processors.Privacy-Preserving Network Forensics
Privacy-preserving attribution of IP packets can help balance forensics with an individual's right to privacy.SECTION: Review articles
Proving Program Termination
In contrast to popular belief, proving termination is not always impossible.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Complex Financial Products: Caveat Emptor
CDOs are examples of financial derivatives, with a value that depends on the underlying assets with which they are linked. These kinds of complex financial products are the cause célèbre of the financial crisis, and many have …Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Securitization of cash flows using financial derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. Derivatives have attracted criticism, but others say …Technical Perspective: Images Everywhere Looking For Models
About 5,000 images per minute are uploaded to the photo-sharing site http://www.flickr.com/; over 7,000,000 a day. Such images often look …Self-Similarity-Based Image Denoising
The search for efficient image denoising methods is still a valid challenge at the crossing of functional analysis and statistics. In spite of the sophistication of the recently proposed methods, most algorithms have not yet …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Games, Roles, Turns
Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is (as yet) unsolved. In each, the issue is how your intuition matches up with the mathematics.SECTION: Contributed articles: Virtual extension
