Communications of the ACM
What Can Be Done About Gender Diversity in Computing?: A Lot!
The 2015 Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing is expected to bring together more than 12,000 — mostly female — computer scientists! But this impressive number should not be taken to mean all is well on the gender-diversity …The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Third Heidelberg Laureate Forum equaled and perhaps outperformed the previous two. It was also, however, a poignant event because we were reminded of the ephemeral nature of our human lives.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Ban 'Naked' Braces!
One afternoon early in 1990, one of the 100 or so 4ESS switches that handled U.S. long-distance traffic at the time hit a glitch and executed some untested recovery code. In the process the switch dragged its neighboring switches …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
The Morality of Online War; the Fates of Data Analytics, HPC
John Arquilla considers justifications for warfare in the cyber realm, while Daniel Reed looks ahead at big data and exascale computing.COLUMN: News
Scientists Update Views of Light
Experiment sheds new light on wave-particle duality.Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.Cyber Policies on the Rise
A growing number of companies are taking out cybersecurity insurance policies to protect themselves from the costs of data breaches.COLUMN: Inside risks
Keys Under Doormats
Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
In Defense of IBM
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Storming the Cubicle
Acquisitive redux.COLUMN: The business of software
Thinking Thoughts
On brains and bytes.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Computing Is History
Reflections on the past to inform the future.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Rise of Concerns About AI: Reflections and Directions
Research, leadership, and communication about AI futures.Life After MOOCs
Online science education needs a new revolution.SECTION: Practice
Crash Consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.SECTION: Contributed articles
Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.Framing Sustainability as a Property of Software Quality
This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.SECTION: Review articles
Discovering Genes Involved in Disease and the Mystery of Missing Heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Not Just a Matrix Laboratory Anymore
Mathematics is not difficult to find in Chebfun, the subject of "Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers."Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers
We present the Chebfun system for numerical computation with functions, which is based on a key idea: an analogy of floating-point arithmetic for functions rather than numbers.COLUMN: Last byte
