Communications of the ACM
COLUMN: Broadening participation
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
DEPARTMENT: From the President
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Vardi's insights
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: Broadening participation
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Session details: Broadening participation
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Session details: Economic and business dimensions
DEPARTMENT: From the President
Reflections on My Two Years
I see ACM as a continual 'work in progress' as computing and our community evolves. In the future, I believe ACM will need to constantly reassess priorities and activities to ensure we remain vital to the global computing community …DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
On Neural Networks
Many applications are surfacing for neural network systems, including reliable identification of diseases (for example, diabetic retinopathy, cancerous cells), situational awareness for self-driving cars, and a raft of other …DEPARTMENT: Vardi's insights
How the Hippies Destroyed the Internet
Communism is the most famous 20th-century attempt to build market-free economies. It required coercion on a colossal scale. The Internet is the second major attempt to build a market-free economy, limited to information.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Teach the Law (and the AI) 'Foreseeability'
AI is a sort of idiot savant that can be unpredictably, and potentially, dangerously literal.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
We Are Done With 'Hacking'
Today's programmers offer more valuable skills than simply being able to hack algorithms and make data structures, says Yegor Bugayenko.COLUMN: News
Why Cryptocurrencies Use So Much Energy
The electricity consumption of mining for cryptocurrencies is becoming a real concern. Here's what to do about it.You've Got Mail!
And that's not all. Email is not what it used to be.Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Copyright Blocks a News-Monitoring Technology
An evolving technological landscape has made application of copyright law increasingly difficult.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Blockchain Revolution Without the Blockchain?
Most of the suggested benefits of blockchain technologies do not come from elements unique to the blockchain.COLUMN: Broadening participation
Beyond Diversity
Considering the confluence of research questions and sociopolitical dynamics.COLUMN: Viewpoint
A New Perspective on Computational Thinking
Addressing its cognitive essence, universal value, and curricular practices.The Case for Disappearing Cyber Security
A proposal for keeping cyber security both out of sight and out of mind for end users.SECTION: Practice
C Is Not a Low-Level Language
Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.How to Come Up with Great Ideas
Think like an entrepreneur.Research for Practice: Toward a Network of Connected Things
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.SECTION: Contributed articles
Making Machine Learning Robust Against Adversarial Inputs
Such inputs distort how machine-learning-based systems are able to function in the world as it is.Digital Nudging: Guiding Online User Choices through Interface Design
Designers can create designs that nudge users toward the most desirable option.Always Measure One Level Deeper
Performance measurements often go wrong, reporting surface-level results that are more marketing than science.SECTION: Review articles
The ABCs of Effectiveness in The Digital Society
Digital effectiveness is not the same as mastering the ICTs, rather it is the art of using them in a purposeful, healthy way.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The Rewards of Selfish Mining
"Majority Is Not Enough: Bitcoin Mining Is Vulnerable," by Eyal and Sirer, questions the 2009 Bitcoin white paper's implicit assumption of perfect information—that all miners have the same view of the blockchain.Majority Is Not Enough: Bitcoin Mining Is Vulnerable
We propose a practical modification to the Bitcoin protocol that protects Bitcoin in the general case.COLUMN: Last byte
