Communications of the ACM
Dealing With the Deep, Long-Term Challenges Facing ACM (Part I)
While the new ideas generated at the ACM Strategic Planning Retreat are likely to have a significant impact on ACM's activities going forward, I view them as defining only a relatively short-term agenda not fully addressing some …Heidelberg Laureate Forum II
The second Heidelberg Laureate Forum was even better than the first, if that is possible.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Accountability Is No Excuse For Surveillance
British philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham would have wholeheartedly endorsed many of the accountability mechanisms Stefan Bechtold and Adrian Perrig outlined in "Accountability in Future Internet Architectures" …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Teach the Teachers, and Contribute to Humanity
Mark Guzdial suggests computer science education needs to be aimed at adults before teaching it to children; Lawrence M. Fisher finds the volunteer spirit behind ACM Special Interest Groups.COLUMN: News
Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.Computing What Fits
New apps and pods improve the virtual and actual retail experiences by ensuring clothing and cosmetics look good on you before you buy them.Keeping Online Reviews Honest
As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy . . . and How to Lighten It
Improving the sharing economy will require addressing myriad problems.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Updates on the Intellectual Property Front
Recapping influential U.S. Supreme Court decisions rendered earlier this year.COLUMN: Computing ethics
Big Data's End Run Around Procedural Privacy Protections
Recognizing the inherent limitations of consent and anonymity.COLUMN: Education
A Future For Computing Education Research
Seeking to address the most important issues facing the computer education research community.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Summing Up
Considering recent privacy- and security-related events through this column.COLUMN: Viewpoint
An Embarrassment of Riches
A critical review of open innovation systems.Designing User Incentives For Cybersecurity
How to encourage better user security practices and behaviorSECTION: Practice
Evolution of the Product Manager
Better education needed to develop the discipline.JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Conditional dependency resolution.A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
Looking at the design and benefits of X10.SECTION: Contributed articles
Scene Understanding By Labeling Pixels
Pixels labeled with a scene's semantics and geometry let computers describe what they see.On Facebook, Most Ties Are Weak
Strong ties connect individuals in the same community; weak ties connect individuals in different communities.SECTION: Review articles
The Data on Diversity
It's not just about being fair.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The Intricate Dance of Fabric and Light
For years, graphics programs have simulated fabric as a collection of fibers, requiring tweaks to algorithms for each new fabric. "Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging" solves this problem in …Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging
Visualizing and rendering cloth has been an important area of graphics research for decades. This paper proposes a new approach to acquiring volume models, based on density data from CT scans and appearance data from photographs …COLUMN: Last byte
