Communications of the ACM
The Great Robotics Debate
A major debate has erupted among economists regarding the impact of robots and automation on jobs and the possibility of technological unemployment.DEPARTMENT: From the president
'But Officer, I Was Only Programming at 100 Lines Per Hour!'
One wonders whether legislative bodies and perhaps insurance companies will reach conclusions that suggest software designers and implementers should have imposed upon themselves regulatory requirements, authorizations, and certifications …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Plenty More Hacker Motivations
Exploring the malicious hacker problem, Zheng-chuan Xu et al.'s "Why Computer Talents Become Computer Hackers" (Apr. 2013) overlooked many motivations for computer talents becoming computer hackers.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Ph.D. Students Must Break Away From Undergraduate Mentality
Jason Hong considers how students working on their doctorates in computer science must adapt and evolve to succeed.COLUMN: News
Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.All the Items Fit to Print
3-D printing has come of age. It promises to revolutionize a wide range of industries and profoundly change the way people buy and consume.Backing Creativity
Hacker spaces are spreading around the world, though some government funding is raising questions.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Statutory Damages As a Threat to Innovation
Considering the negative influence of U.S. statutory damage rules on technology innovation.COLUMN: Computing ethics
Information and Communication Technology For Managing Supply Chain Risks
How to encourage ethical behavior among all links in a global supply chain.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
The Business of Professionals
Expertise and service ethics are just two of the many components comprising a modern professional.COLUMN: Broadening participation
Toward Culturally Responsive Computing Education
Improving academic success and social development by merging computational thinking with cultural practices.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Could Artificial Intelligence Create an Unemployment Crisis?
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will have significant implications for evolving economic systems.SECTION: Practice
Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination
We simply do not have a synchronization mechanism that can enforce mutual exclusion.Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures
Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.SECTION: Contributed articles
Information Distance Between What I Said and What It Heard
The RSVP voice-recognition search engine improves speech recognition and translation accuracy in question answering.Cake Cutting: Not Just Child's Play
How to fairly allocate divisible resources, and why computer scientists should take notice.SECTION: Review articles
Computational Epidemiology
The challenge of developing and using computer models to understand and control the diffusion of disease through populations.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A Fresh Approach to Vector Graphics
The following paper makes a fundamental contribution to the world of vector graphics by introducing a new primitive called diffusion curve.Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation For Smooth-Shaded Images
We describe a new vector-based primitive for creating smooth-shaded images, called the diffusion curve.COLUMN: Last byte
