Communications of the ACM
Focusing on Teacher Needs in K-12 CS Education
CS educational needs in K–12 are greater today than ever before. A lack of access to CS among a range of demographics continues to persist. Enter the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA).On the Road in Latin America
For the past month, I have been on the road in Latin America. Everywhere, I came away with a sense there is strong interest in Internet use in business, education, government services, and applications for the general public.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
Let the Liable Pay
In his letter to the editor (Nov. 2015) on Keith Kirkpatrick's news story "The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars" (Aug. 2015), Hans Grünberger attacked my proposal for ethics review boards. The letter mischaracterizes my beliefs …ACM's 2016 General Election
In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM's officers.ACM's Annual Report For FY15
In the following pages you will find a year filled with determined initiatives, new services, and "firsts" designed to increase the value of your ACM membership. But accomplishments are only half the story.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Controlling Cyber Arms, and Creating New Legos
John Arquilla identifies flaws in a potential U.S.-China cyber arms control pact, while Joel C. Adams suggests an unusual way of preserving computer science history.COLUMN: News
Seeing More Clearly
Computer understanding of images has improved rapidly, but true visual intelligence is still a long way off.Better Memory
Advances in non-volatile memory are changing the face of computing and ushering in a new era of efficiencies.Preserving the Internet
Is the Internet ephemeral by its nature, or can it be archived?Gene Amdahl, 1922-2015
Gene Amdahl, who formulated Amdahl's Law and worked with IBM and others on developments related to mainframe computing, died recently from complications of pneumonia.COLUMN: Law and technology
Biometric Identity
Assessing the promises and dangers of biometric identity plans.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Extrapolating from Moore's Law
Behind and beyond Microsoft, Intel, and Apple.COLUMN: The business of software
The Chaos Machine
Complexity, predictability, and modern projects.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol
Considering the evolving concept of programming.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Unbalanced Data Leads to Obsolete Economic Advice
Few computer scientists and technological workers worry about their role in the economies of their industries and their countries. Background supplementary material available.Why Knowledge Representation Matters
A personal story: From philosophy to software.SECTION: Practice
Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyNon-Volatile Storage
Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.Immutability Changes Everything
We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.SECTION: Contributed articles
Spatial Computing
Knowing where you are in space and time promises a deeper understanding of neighbors, ecosystems, and the environment.Open Data and Civic Apps: First-Generation Failures, Second-Generation Improvements
Developers first need compelling incentives and committed management.The Building Blocks of a Cloud Strategy: Evidence from Three SaaS Providers
Before looking to enter a cloud-based market, weigh industry characteristics and one's own stock of design capital.SECTION: Review articles
Algebraic Fingerprints For Faster Algorithms
Algorithmic solutions to tough computational problems are making an impressive comeback.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: High-Performance Virtualization: Are We Done?
"Bare-Metal Performance for Virtual Machines with Exitless Interrupts" shows how to enable a virtual machine to attain "bare metal" performance from high-speed network interface cards.Bare-Metal Performance For Virtual Machines with Exitless Interrupts
We present ExitLess Interrupts (ELI), a software-only approach for handling interrupts within guest virtual machines directly and securely.Technical Perspective: Enlisting the Power of the Crowd
An important contribution of "Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd" is the observation that by using the crowd for the collection of new data, we are departing from the classical closed word assumption, which underlies …Answering Enumeration Queries with the Crowd
Hybrid human/computer database systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating the crowd. Such systems raise many implementation questions. To address the issues, we develop statistical tools …COLUMN: Last byte
