Communications of the ACM
Scalable Conferences
One of the main insights developed at the "Publication Culture in Computing Research" workshop, held in November 2012, was that the computing-research publishing ecosystem — both conferences and journals — has simply failed to …DEPARTMENT: From the president
Virtual Reality Redux
I have just returned from a trip to Warsaw where I had the opportunity to visit the Copernicus Science Museum. The facility houses an amazing array of interactive exhibits. As I encountered these fascinating experiences, I …Nominees For Elections and Report of the ACM Nominating Committee
In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM's officers.ACM's FY13 Annual Report
FY'13 was an exceptional year for ACM. Membership reached a record high for the 11th consecutive year, solidifying ACM's lead as the world's largest educational and scientific society in computing.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
U.S. Does Not Control the Internet
In his editor's letter "The End of The American Network" (Nov. 2013), Moshe Y. Vardi made a startling statement that is untrue on several levels.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
MOOCs Need More Work; So Do CS Graduates
Mark Guzdial assesses the first full year of massive open online courses, while Joel C. Adams considers the employment outlook for CS grads.COLUMN: News
French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows
Interfaces can sense your mood, if you let them.'Peace Technologies' Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike
Ushahidi — or "testimony" in Swahili — has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
The Legacy of Steve Ballmer
Assessing the positive and negative components of the second Microsoft CEO's tenure.COLUMN: Law and technology
Toward a Closer Integration of Law and Computer Science
Seeking better integration of the insights from the fields of law and technology.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer
Separating the origins of computer science and technology.COLUMN: The business of software
Estimation Is Not Evil
Reconciling agile approaches and project estimates.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Publish Now, Judge Later
A proposal to address the problem of too many conference submissions and not enough time for reviewers to carefully evaluate each one.SECTION: Practice
The Software Inferno
Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?SECTION: Contributed articles
Touchless Interaction in Surgery
Touchless interaction with medical images lets surgeons maintain sterility during surgical procedures.Retweeting the Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Disaster
The Japanese government tweeted to calm public fear, as the public generally listened to tweets expressing alarm.Democratizing Transactional Programming
Control transactions without compromising their simplicity for the sake of expressiveness, application concurrency, or performance.SECTION: Review articles
A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition
What do we know now that we did not know 40 years ago?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Silicon Stress
Moore's Law has been the mainstay of semiconductor electronics since the invention of the transistor and its application to the integrated circuit. Implicit in this evolution is the assumption that we can print these circuits …TSV Stress-Aware Full-Chip Mechanical Reliability Analysis and Optimization For 3D IC
Three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) with through-silicon-via (TSV) is believed to offer new levels of efficiency, power, performance, and form-factor advantages over the conventional 2D IC.COLUMN: Last byte
