Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Vardi's insights
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Privacy and security
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Computing ethics
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Here Comes Everybody . . . to Communications
I am pleased to announce a new Communications of the ACM initiative with the ambitious goal of expanding the Communications community globally to include important voices and perspectives in the conversation about the present …DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Unintended Consequences
The Internet as we know it today has driven the barrier to the generation and sharing of information to nearly zero. But there are consequences of the reduced threshold for access to the Internet.DEPARTMENT: Vardi's insights
A Declaration of the Dependence of Cyberspace
Just as you cannot separate the mind and the body, you cannot separate cyberspace and physical space. It is time to accept this dependence and act accordingly.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Keep the ACM Code of Ethics As It Is
The proposed changes to the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as discussed in "ACM Code of Ethics: A Guide for Positive Action" (Digital Edition, Jan. 2018), are generally misguided and should be rejected by the ACM …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
The Costs and Pleasures of a Computer Science Teacher
Mark Guzdial considers the enormous opportunity costs of computer science teachers, while Bertrand Meyer ponders the pleasures of arguing with graduate students.COLUMN: News
In Pursuit of Virtual Life
Scientists are simulating biological organisms and replicating evolution in the lab. How far can they expand the boundaries of virtual life?The Construction Industry in the 21st Century
Three-dimensional printing and other new technologies are revitalizing the business of building buildings.The State of Fakery
How digital media could be authenticated, from computational, legal, and ethical points of view.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Making Security Sustainable
Can there be an Internet of durable goods?COLUMN: Legally speaking
Will the Supreme Court Nix Reviews of Bad Patents?
Considering the longer-term implications of a soon-to-be-decided U.S. Supreme Court case.COLUMN: Computing ethics
Ethics Omission Increases Gases Emission
A look in the rearview mirror at Volkswagon software engineering.COLUMN: The profession of IT
The Computing Profession
Taking stock of progress toward a computing profession since this column started in 2001.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Impediments with Policy Interventions to Foster Cybersecurity
A call for discussion of governmental investment and intervention in support of cybersecurity.Responsible Research with Crowds: Pay Crowdworkers at Least Minimum Wage
High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.Computational Social Science ≠ Computer Science + Social Data
The important intersection of computer science and social science.SECTION: Practice
Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
Being funny is serious work.Monitoring in a DevOps World
Perfect should never be the enemy of better.SECTION: Contributed articles
A Programmable Programming Language
As the software industry enters the era of language-oriented programming, it needs programmable programming languages.The Wisdom of Older Technology (Non)Users
Older adults consistently reject digital technology even when designed to be accessible and trustworthy.Evolution Toward Soft(er) Products
As software becomes a larger part of all products, traditional (hardware) manufacturers are becoming, in essence, software companies.SECTION: Review articles
How Can We Trust a Robot?
If intelligent robots take on a larger role in our society, what basis will humans have for trusting them?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A Graph-Theoretic Framework Traces Task Planning
In "Time-Inconsistent Planning: A Computational Problem in Behavioral Economics," Kleinberg and Oren describe a graph-theoretic framework for task planning with quasi-hyperbolic discounting.Time-Inconsistent Planning: A Computational Problem in Behavioral Economics
We propose a graph-theoretic model of tasks and goals, in which dependencies among actions are represented by a directed graph, and a time-inconsistent agent constructs a path through this graph.Technical Perspective: On Heartbleed: A Hard Beginnyng Makth a Good Endyng
When a serious security vulnerability is discovered in the SSL/TLS protocol, one would naturally expect a rapid response. "Analysis of SSL Certificate Reissues and Revocations in the Wake of Heartbleed," by Zhang et al., paints …Analysis of SSL Certificate Reissues and Revocations in the Wake of Heartbleed
We use Heartbleed, a widespread OpenSSL vulnerability from 2014, as a natural experiment to determine whether administrators are properly managing their X.509 certificates.COLUMN: Last byte
