Communications of the ACM
The End of The American Network
The U.S. National Security Agency's pervasive phone and Internet eavesdropping and surveillance operations is making the surveillance technology in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, seem rather primitive in comparison.DEPARTMENT: From the president
Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The inaugural Heidelberg Laureate Forum affected my thinking about computability and computation.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Microprocessor Architectures Follow Markets and Silicon
"The Value of Microprocessor Designs" (Feb. 2013) aimed to analyze the value of microarchitectures in isolation, as though they could be mixed-and-matched with various silicon implementation technologies over the years. This …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Considering Privacy Issues in the Context of Google Glass
Jason Hong ponders why there has been so much negative press coverage of Google Glass with regard to privacy, considering the issue from two different perspectives.COLUMN: News
Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.More Than a Mouse
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context of robots.COLUMN: Privacy and security
What Regulators Can Do to Advance Privacy Through Design
Seeking to address the challenges of privacy by design through regulatory process and formal law.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Is Software Patentable?
Assessing the shifting perspectives on patentability standards for software.COLUMN: Computing ethics
No Limits to Watching?
Considering the ethical questions raised by technologies that are moving from knowing what we are doing (and where) to knowing who we are.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Why Not Immortality?
A question of biology, technology, and society.COLUMN: Education
Making Computer Science Count
Combining efforts and expertise, ACM and Code.org are partnering to address a rapidly changing education landscape.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Augmented Reality Browsers: Essential Products or Only Gadgets?
How lessons learned from the evolution of the Web and Web browsers can influence the development of AR browsers.SECTION: Practice
Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance
Merging the art and science of software development.Leaking Space
Eliminating memory hogs.Agile and SEMAT: Perfect Partners
Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone.SECTION: Contributed articles
Computing Technologies For Reflective, Creative Care of People with Dementia
Mobile apps manage data on individual residents to help carers deliver more person-centered care.Media Tablets For Mobile Learning
Tablets offer hope for improving learning and collaboration but only if truly integrated into learning settings.SECTION: Review articles
Algorithmic Trading Review
The competitive nature of AT, the scarcity of expertise, and the vast profits potential, makes for a secretive community where implementation details are difficult to find.Adaptation of Audiovisual Contents and Their Delivery Means
Coupling content adaptation with context awareness is a promising approach for improving the user's experience.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Centip3De Demonstrates More Than Moore...
Exponentially increasing transistor integration also demands more interconnections, which have started hitting fundamental limits. The Centip3De design demonstrates two concepts to address this challenge: near-threshold computing …Centip3De: A Many-Core Prototype Exploring 3D Integration and Near-Threshold Computing
This paper evaluates the use of three-dimensional integration to reduce global interconnect by adding multiple layers of silicon with vertical connections between them using through-silicon vias.COLUMN: Last byte
