Communications of the ACM
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COLUMN: News
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COLUMN: Education
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SECTION: Practice
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Building the Future Communications of the ACM
The Communications of the ACM team is dynamic; a collection of passionate leaders, making change and creating the future CACM through the actions, initiatives, and goals that we are pursuing today. In that vein, here are some …DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
In Praise of Under-Specification?
It is interesting to contemplate whether the notion of under-specification that induces flexibility and anticipates new but unknown developments can be codified in a concrete way beyond the purely conceptual.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Embed Ethical Guidelines in Autonomous Weapons
As a combat veteran and more recently an industry technologist and university professor, I have observed with concern the increasing automation — and dehumanization — of warfare, a trend discussed in the "Potential and Peril" …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
How Adults Ages 60+ Are Learning to Code
Philip Guo discusses his project studying older adults that have chosen to learn computer programming.COLUMN: News
Hacker-Proof Coding
Software verification helps find the faults, preventing hacks.Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace Near You
A clutch of companies are changing how work gets done---by using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.AI in Contact Centers
Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to improve the customer service experience.Charles P. 'Chuck' Thacker: 1943-2017
Microsoft researcher Charles P. Thacker, awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award, died Monday, June 12, at the age of 74, after a brief illness.COLUMN: Historical reflections
Prophets, Seers, and Pioneers
Reflections on historical prognostications for the future.COLUMN: Education
Is the U.S. Education System Ready For CS For All?
Insights from a recent Google-Gallup national research study seeking to better understand the context of K--12 CS education.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
The Observer Effect
Finding the balance between zero and maximum.COLUMN: Viewpoint
The Natural Science of Computing
As unconventional computing comes of age, we believe a revolution is needed in our view of computer science.SECTION: Practice
Now That We Can Write Simultaneously, How Do We Use That to Our Advantage?
Word processors now make it possible for many authors to work on the same document concurrently. But what can they actually do?Small-Data Computing: Correct Calculator Arithmetic
Rounding errors are usually avoidable, and sometimes we can afford to avoid them.SECTION: Contributed articles
Turing's Pre-War Analog Computers: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited
Turing's machines of 1936 were a purely mathematical notion, not an exploration of possible blueprints for physical calculators.Data Science: Challenges and Directions
While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.SECTION: Review articles
The Science of Brute Force
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Unexpected Connections
The inherent scalability of an interface is the focus of "The Scalable Commutativity Rule" by Austin T. Clements, et al.The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors
This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.Technical Perspective: Linking Form, Function, and Fabrication
To avoid costly feedback loops between design, engineering, and fabrication, research in computer graphics has recently tried to incorporate key aspects of function and fabrication into an "intelligent" shape modeling process …Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia For Spinnable Objects
In this article, we describe an algorithm to generate designs for spinning objects by optimizing their mass distribution.COLUMN: Last byte
