In October, ACM Council approved the publication of the CS 2013 report — an exhaustive 10-year effort championed by ACM's Education Board and IEEE-Computer Society.
Andrew McGettrick Page 5DEPARTMENT: Letter from the President
Every time I see calendar dates like 2014, I feel as if I have been transported by time machine into the future. Isaac Asimov made some remarkably astute projections about 2014 in 1964, so what might he say today?Vinton G. Cerf Page 7DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Jacob Loveless et al.'s article "Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading" (Oct. 2013) is an example of potentially valuable research misdirected.CACM Staff Page 9DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Advances in computational photography are making image capture the starting point. The technology is transforming the field.Samuel Greengard Pages 19-21
ACM has recognized 50 of its members for their contributions to computing that are driving innovations across multiple domains and disciplines. CACM Staff Page 22COLUMN: Privacy and security
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in cybersecurity professionalization.Diana L. Burley, Jon Eisenberg, Seymour E. Goodman Pages 24-27COLUMN: Education
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.Zachary Hensley, Jibonananda Sanyal, Joshua New Pages 55-62SECTION: Contributed articles
The idea is to identify security-critical software bugs so they can be fixed first.Thanassis Avgerinos, Sang Kil Cha, Alexandre Rebert, Edward J. Schwartz, Maverick Woo, David Brumley Pages 74-84
A paper by Ballard, Demmel, Holtz, and Schwartz considers a fundamental problem, adopting a new perspective on an old algorithm that has for years occupied a peculiar place in the theory and practice of matrix algorithms.Michael W. Mahoney Page 106
Proving lower bounds on the communication of algorithms and finding algorithms that attain these bounds are fundamental goals. Grey Ballard, James Demmel, Olga Holtz, Oded Schwartz Pages 107-114COLUMN: Last byte