Communications of the ACM
Computer Science Curricula 2013 Released
The Computer Science Curricula 2013 was released last fall with the goal of providing advice and guidance to the computing education community throughout the coming decade.DEPARTMENT: Letter from the President
The House Elves of ACM
While ACM is deeply dependent on the extraordinary contributions of our volunteers, the organizational framework and underlying support for this work is key to ACM's successful operation.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Efficient Code to Counter Dying Moore's Law
If Moore's Law is indeed winding down, as Moshe Y. Vardi said in "Moore's Law and the Sand-Heap Paradox" (May 2014), software practitioners must focus even more than they already do on developing efficient code.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
First Impressions, Unexpected Benefits
Daniel Reed shares his experiences with Google Glass, while Chris Stephenson considers the kinds of support chapters of the Computer Science Teachers Association provide their members.COLUMN: News
Neuromorphic Computing Gets Ready For the (Really) Big Time
A technology inspired by biological principles but 'steamrolled for decades' prepares to take off as Moore's Law approaches its long-anticipated end.Time For a Change
4D printing combines the dimension of time with the hope of building objects with new capabilities.Visualizations Make Big Data Meaningful
New techniques are designed to translate "invisible numbers" into visible images.General Agreement
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.COLUMN: Inside risks
EMV: Why Payment Systems Fail
What lessons might we learn from the chip cards used for payments in Europe, now that the U.S. is adopting them too?COLUMN: The business of software
Owning and Using
On vital and supporting systems.COLUMN: Privacy and security
FUD: A Plea For Intolerance
Relying on dubious claims can cause researchers to focus on the wrong questions and organizations to misdirect security spending.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Avalanches Are Coming
Computing technology has generated conditions for radical transformations of jobs and professions — including education. How shall we cope?COLUMN: Kode Vicious
The Logic of Logging
And the illogic of PDF.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Beyond Data and Analysis
Why business analytics and big data really matter for modern business organizations.SECTION: Practice
Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell
Looking at embedded DSLs.The Curse of the Excluded Middle
"Mostly functional" programming does not work.Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs
High-level DSLs for low-level programming.SECTION: Contributed articles
Cyber-Physical Testbeds
EPIC helps assess cyberthreats against the cyber and physical dimensions of networked critical infrastructures.The Power of Social Media Analytics
How to use, and influence, consumer social communications to improve business performance, reputation, and profit.The Digitization of Cultural Practices
These interactive applications let users perform, and thus preserve, traditional culture-defining crafts.SECTION: Review articles
Implementing Distributed Shared Memory For Dynamic Networks
Atomically consistent memory services provide resiliency in dynamic settings.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Motion Fields For Interactive Character Animation
The following paper effectively treats motion clips as a set of independent motion vectors. In their ensemble, these high-dimensional motion vectors define a motion field that governs how the state of a character evolves over …Motion Fields For Interactive Character Locomotion
We propose a novel representation of motion data and control of virtual characters that gives highly agile responses to user input and allows a natural handling of arbitrary external disturbances.COLUMN: Last byte
