Communications of the ACM
SGB Fortifies Global SIG Community
ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) cover 36 areas of computing, from graphics to computer-human interfaces, theory to computer architecture, programming languages to bioinformatics, and much more. SIGs form the locus of ACM's …DEPARTMENT: From the president
Honoring Our Best
It is June again and we gather once more in San Francisco to honor the best among us. It is fitting that we do this, not only to celebrate the successes of our colleagues but to convey to the general public the remarkable power …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
How to Claim Your Fair Share in Academic Publishing
In his editor's letter "To Boycott or Not to Boycott" (Mar. 2013), Moshe Y. Vardi said the traditional author partnership with commercial publishers has turned into an abusive relationship. It is time computer scientists broke …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Computer Security Needs Refocus; And Be Nice About It
Jason Hong wonders whether computer security is missing the mark, while Judy Robertson supports refusing to tolerate discourtesy.COLUMN: News
Deep Learning Comes of Age
Advances on multiple fronts are bringing big improvements to the way computers learn, increasing the accuracy of speech and vision systems.The Future Is Flexible Displays
Manufacturers hint that bendable screens are coming soon, but academics argue that many engineering challenges remain.Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus
The possibility of a new $200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.Proofs Probable
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs.ACM Honors Computing Innovators
ACM's awards celebrate achievements in networks, information retrieval, multi-agent systems, computer science education, versatile compiler technologies, and more.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Cybercrime, Cyberweapons, Cyber Wars: Is There Too Much of It in the Air?
Where reality stops and perception begins.COLUMN: The business of software
What Is a 'Good' Estimate?
Whether forecasting is valuable.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Swamped By Automation
Whenever someone asks you to trust them, don't.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Thumb Numbers
Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.COLUMN: Inside risks
Learning from the Past to Face the Risks of Today
The Space Shuttle software program can provide guidance to today's projects.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Access to the Internet Is a Human Right
Connecting Internet access with freedom of expression and creativity.SECTION: Practice
Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.Real-Time GPU Audio
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.SECTION: Contributed articles
Incentives and Rewarding in Social Computing
Praise, pay, and promote crowd-member workers to elicit desired behavioral responses and performance levels.Consequence Analysis of Complex Events on Critical U.S. Infrastructure
How to mitigate a cyber-physical attack that disables the transportation network and releases a cloud of chlorine gas.SECTION: Review articles
Content Recommendation on Web Portals
How to offer recommendations to users when they have not specified what they want.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Circuit Placement Challenges
For a semiconductor circuit with billions of transistors, finding desired locations of circuit components is a challenging task that substantially impacts circuit quality and manufacturing cost.SimPL: An Algorithm For Placing VLSI Circuits
VLSI placement optimizes locations of circuit components so as to reduce interconnect. We propose an algorithm for large-scale placement that outperforms prior art both in runtime and solution quality on standard benchmarks. …COLUMN: Last byte
