Communications of the ACM
Why Doesn't ACM Have a SIG For Theoretical Computer Science?
In 1992, Yuri Gurevich wrote, "It is amazing, however, how different computer science is, especially theoretical computer science, in Europe and the U.S." How did such a sharp division arise between TCS in North America …Invention
I am on a brief holiday in the U.K. visiting stately homes and manor houses in Cotswolds. There is so much history and drama hidden in some of the mechanical designs in these ancient buildingsDEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Not So Easy to Forget
Meg Leta Jones's "Forgetting Made (Too) Easy" (June 2015) raised an important concern about the Court of Justice of the European Union's Google Spain judgment. Google "is without any guidance as to which interests should trump …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Plain Talk on Computing Education
Mark Guzdial considers how the variety of learning outcomes and definitions impacts the teaching of computer science.COLUMN: News
Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.Touching the Virtual
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Security For Mobile and Cloud Frontiers in Healthcare
Designers and developers of healthcare information technologies must address preexisting security vulnerabilities and undiagnosed future threats.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Permissionless Innovation
Seeking a better approach to pharmaceutical research and development.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Hickory Dickory Doc
On null encryption and automated documentation.COLUMN: Education
Understanding the U.S. Domestic Computer Science Ph.D. Pipeline
Two studies provide insights into how to increase the number of domestic doctoral students in U.S. computer science programs.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Learning Through Computational Creativity
Improving learning and achievement in introductory computer science by incorporating creative thinking into the curriculum.SECTION: Practice
Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Use states to drive your tests.From the EDVAC to WEBVACs
Cloud computing for computer scientists.SECTION: Contributed articles
Programming the Quantum Future
The Quipper language offers a unified general-purpose programming framework for quantum computation.Surveillance and Falsification Implications For Open Source Intelligence Investigations
Legitimacy of surveillance is crucial to safeguarding validity of OSINT data as a tool for law-enforcement agencies.Challenges Deploying Complex Technologies in a Traditional Organization
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan had to partner with experienced cloud providers to deliver television-quality exhibits.SECTION: Review articles
Network Science, Web Science, and Internet Science
Exploring three interdisciplinary areas and the extent to which they overlap. Are they all part of the same larger domain?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Corralling Crowd Power
"Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside," introduces an exciting vision of using crowd workers to power an interactive system — here, a word processor — in accomplishing complex cognitive tasks.Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces.COLUMN: Last byte
