Communications of the ACM
Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?
A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing …Augmented Reality
As our computational tools become more and more powerful, we can anticipate that our growing knowledge of the mechanics of our world will allow us to use simulation to visualize, understand, and even design processes that …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Provenance of British Computing
David Anderson's "Tom Kilburn: A Tale of Five Computers" (May 2014) was fascinating and informative, but no article on the history of British computing can avoid the precedence controversy between the Universities of Manchester …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Refining Students' Coding and Reviewing Skills
Philip Guo sees code reviews providing students "lots of pragmatic learning."COLUMN: News
Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.The Power of Memory
In-memory databases promise speedier processing.The New Digital Medicine
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.COLUMN: Law and technology
Accountability in Future Internet Architectures
Can technical and legal aspects be happily intertwined?COLUMN: Historical reflections
We Have Never Been Digital
Reflections on the intersection of computing and the humanities.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Learning For the New Digital Age
Digital machines are automating knowledge work at an accelerating pace. How shall we learn and stay relevant?COLUMN: Viewpoint
Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
Using theoretical models to plan for AI safety.Soft Infrastructure Challenges to Scientific Knowledge Discovery
Seeking to overcome nontechnical challenges to the scientific enterprise.SECTION: Practice
Securing the Tangled Web
Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.The Network Is Reliable
An informal survey of real-world communications failures.Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.SECTION: Contributed articles
Security, Cybercrime, and Scale
Defense begins by identifying the targets likely to yield the greatest reward for an attacker's investment.Online Deception in Social Media
The unknown and the invisible exploit the unwary and the uninformed for illicit financial gain and reputation damage.SECTION: Review articles
Optimality in Robot Motion: Optimal Versus Optimized Motion
Exploring the distinction between an optimal robot motion and a robot motion resulting from the application of optimization techniques.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Portraiture in the Age of Big Data
"Moving Portraits" is, in some sense, part of the perpetual quest to capture the perfect portrait. Its principal contribution is in adapting this age-old problem to our post-modern, big data world.Moving Portraits
We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person. By optimizing the quantity and order in which photos are displayed, we can create moving portraits from collections of still …COLUMN: Last byte
