Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Departments
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Education
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Owning Computing's Environmental Impact
It is time for the computing community to face up to computing's growing environmental impact—and take responsibility for it.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Ownership vs. Stewardship
The Internet and the World Wide Web are dependent on the stewardship of a key set of non-profit institutions.DEPARTMENT: Departments
Lost in Math?
While some people find mathematics befuddling, others find it elegant and beautiful. But the seductive power of mathematical beauty has come under criticism lately.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Smoothing the Path to Computing; Pondering Uses for Big Data
Members of the Computing Research Association suggest ways to broaden participation in computer science, while Saurabh Bagchi looks at use cases for big data.COLUMN: News
Building a Better Battery
How researchers are improving energy storage devices for power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind.Exoskeletons Today
Wearable mobile machines integrate people and machines to assist the movement-impaired, and amplify the capabilities of industrial and defense workers while protecting them from injury.Electronics Need Rare Earths
Demand is expected to spike over the next few years, leading to higher prices and international trade issues.COLUMN: Legally speaking
Questioning a New Intellectual Property Right for Press Publishers
Considering the implications of the "link tax" provision of the proposed EU Directive for the Digital Single Market for traditional press publishers.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Potential 'Dark Sides' of Leisure Technology Use in Youth
Time for balanced reflections on technology.COLUMN: The profession of IT
An Interview with William Hugh Murray
A discussion of the rapidly evolving realm of practical cyber security.COLUMN: Education
It's About Power
A call to rethink ethics and equity in computing education.COLUMN: Viewpoint
From Computational Thinking to Computational Action
Envisioning computing education that both teaches and empowers.SECTION: Practice
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.Design Patterns for Managing Up
Four challenging work situations and how to handle them.Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data
These attacks on statistical databases are no longer a theoretical danger.SECTION: Contributed articles
The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning
The kind of causal inference seen in natural human thought can be "algorithmitized" to help produce human-level machine intelligence.Metamorphic Testing of Driverless Cars
Metamorphic testing can test untestable software, detecting fatal errors in autonomous vehicles' onboard computer systems.Blogging Birds: Telling Informative Stories About the Lives of Birds from Telemetric Data
The system transforms raw telemetric data into engaging and informative blog texts readily understood by all.The Compositional Architecture of the Internet
A new model for describing the Internet reflects today's reality and the future's needs.SECTION: Review articles
Beyond Worst-Case Analysis
The need for deeply understanding when algorithms work (or not) has never been greater.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Borrowing Big Code to Automate Programming Activities
"Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'" presents new techniques for leveraging big code to automate two programming activities: selecting understandable names for JavaScript identifiers and generating type annotations …Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'
We present a new approach for predicting program properties from large codebases (aka "Big Code").Technical Perspective: Isolating a Matching When Your Coins Go Missing
Whether there exists a deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite matching remains an outstanding question at the frontiers of our understanding of the role of randomness in computation. The question has been (nearly) recently …A Deterministic Parallel Algorithm for Bipartite Perfect Matching
In this article, we give an almost complete derandomization of the Isolation Lemma for perfect matchings in bipartite graphs.COLUMN: Last byte
