As a volunteer-driven organization, ACM's future health depends not only on appealing to a diverse membership, but also on creating a pipeline of future leaders.
Cherri M. Pancake Page 5DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
The Viewpoint in the September 2019 issue "Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)," while interesting, was flawed and failed to justify the claims made.
CACM Staff Page 9DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Mark Guzdial considers how few U.S. high school students take computer science, while Robin K. Hill shares what she's learned in teaching first-year college computing students.
Mark Guzdial, Robin K. Hill Pages 10-11COLUMN: News
A multitude of robotic assistants for astronauts and rovers are in development to make space exploration more resource-efficient.
Paul Marks Pages 16-18
Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.
Claire Le Goues, Michael Pradel, Abhik Roychoudhury Pages 56-65
OpenPiton research is one of the watershed moments in the fundamental shift toward the construction of an open source ecosystem for implementing prototype chips.
Michael B. Taylor Page 78
We present OpenPiton, an open source framework for building scalable architecture research prototypes from one core to 500 million cores.
Jonathan Balkind, Michael McKeown, Yaosheng Fu, Tri Nguyen, Yanqi Zhou, Alexey Lavrov, Mohammad Shahrad, Adi Fuchs, Samuel Payne, Xiaohua Liang, Matthew Matl, David Wentzlaff Pages 79-87COLUMN: Last byte
In a career launched by groundbreaking research, Garth Gibson continues to shepherd technological advances "from blackboard through standards and to commercial reality."
Leah Hoffmann Pages 96-ff