Communications of the ACM
Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?: A Proposal For 'PACM'
The ACM Publications Board Conferences Committee has been working on a proposal that brings together conference and journal publishing. Here, we offer some background leading up to this proposal, summarize the plan, and solicit …On (Computing) Artifacts
Computers and, especially, computer programs may be among the least well understood artifacts known to mankind.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
May the Computational Force Be with You
There are many open questions in complexity theory concerning "a deeper reality below the one we perceive" that may be relevant, even fundamental, to Yannis Papakonstantinou's Viewpoint "Created Computed Universe" (June 2015) …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Moving Beyond the Cold War
John Arquilla assesses the need for cyber arms control.COLUMN: News
Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.Sensing Emotions
How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.New News Aggregator Apps
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Innovators Assemble: Ada Lovelace, Walter Isaacson, and the Superheroines of Computing
Can computing history be both inspiring and accurate?COLUMN: Law and technology
The Rise of the Robo Notice
Examining the conflicting claims involving the use of automated tools in copyright-related notice-and-takedown procedures.COLUMN: Global computing
The Value of Social Theories For Global Computing
Conceptual toolkits for projects that work.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Automated Education and the Professional
Technology boffins argue the new technologies of intelligent personal learning environments will put universities out of business. Will the purported successor, an automated global virtual university, be up to the task of professional …COLUMN: Viewpoint
Experiments as Research Validation: Have We Gone Too Far?
Reconsidering conference paper reviewers' requirements for experimental evidence.Theory Without Experiments: Have We Gone Too Far?
Seeking a better understanding of computing through a mixture of theory and appropriate experimental evidence.COLUMN: Point/Counterpoint
The Pros and Cons of the 'PACM' Proposal: Point
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave conference and journal publishing. Here, computer scientist Kathryn …The Pros and Cons of the 'PACM' Proposal: Counterpoint
In "Should Conferences Meet Journals and Where?" ACM Publications Board co-chairs Joseph A. Konstan and Jack W. Davidson introduce a proposal that would interweave conference and journal publishing. Here, computer scientist David …SECTION: Practice
Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI
Old questions being answered with both AI and HCI.Testing a Distributed System
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.SECTION: Contributed articles
Trustworthy Hardware from Untrusted Components
This defense-in-depth approach uses static analysis and runtime mechanisms to detect and silence hardware backdoors.Debugging High-Performance Computing Applications at Massive Scales
Dynamic analysis techniques help programmers find the root cause of bugs in large-scale parallel applications.On the Categorization of Scientific Citation Profiles in Computer Science
A new dynamic growth model reveals how citation networks evolve over time, pointing the way toward reformulated scientometrics.SECTION: Review articles
Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence
AI has seen great advances of many kinds recently, but there is one critical area where progress has been extremely slow: ordinary commonsense.Bitcoin: Under the Hood
The myths, the hype, and the true worth of bitcoins.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A Woodworker's Easy Fix
The authors of "Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design" have found a way to provide the user with instant feedback on how to fix unstable or toppling wooden panel constructions.Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes For Furniture Design
The authors propose an interactive design framework for the efficient and intuitive exploration of geometrically and physically valid shapes.COLUMN: Last byte
