Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Departments
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Computing ethics
COLUMN: Broadening participation
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Halfway Round!: Growing the Regional Special Sections
In November 2017, we launched Communications' Regional Special Sections. A year and half later, I'm happy to report we're halfway around the world and gaining momentum!DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Back to the Future, Part II
This year is the 50th anniversary of the activation of the Arpanet project.DEPARTMENT: Departments
To Serve Humanity
We are in the midst a profound transformation of our society, with computer science and its artifacts as a major driver of change.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Bringing More Women, Immigrants, to Computer Science
Gloria Townsend on encouraging women to pursue CS, and Sheldon Waite on supporting immigrants to fill STEM jobs.COLUMN: News
Good Algorithms Make Good Neighbors
Many computer scientists doubted ad hoc methods would ever give way to a more general approach to finding nearest neighbors. They were wrong.The Edge of Computational Photography
Smartphones and consumer cameras increasingly give professional photographers a run for their money.Protecting the 2020 Census
A new framework is being used to secure the 2020 U.S. Census from database reconstruction attacks.COLUMN: Legally speaking
API Copyrights Revisited
Deliberating on the main arguments in recent sets of briefs filed in support of Google's U.S. Supreme Court petition.COLUMN: Computing ethics
Who Benefits?
Considering the case of smart cities.COLUMN: Broadening participation
A New Labor Market for People with 'Coolabilities'
How the unique perspective and enhanced strengths accompanying disabilities can benefit the workforce.COLUMN: Viewpoint
GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful
Seeking to improve rankings by utilizing more objective data and meaningful metrics.SECTION: Practice
Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.The Top 10 Things Executives Should Know About Software
Software acumen is the new norm.Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.SECTION: Contributed articles
On The Hourglass Model
Used in the design of the Internet and Unix, the layered services of the hourglass model have enabled viral adoption and deployment scalability.Ways of Thinking in Informatics
An innovative, entry-level informatics course enables students to ponder CS problems in different ways, from different perspectives.SECTION: Review articles
Internet of Things Search Engine
Tracing the complicated yet still relatively unripe area of the Internet of Things search engine—from concepts, to classification, and open issues.Unifying Logical and Statistical AI with Markov Logic
Markov logic can be used as a general framework for joining logical and statistical AI.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Do You Know Why Your Web Pages Load Faster?
"Taking a Long Look at QUIC," by Arash Molavi Kakhki et al., is a bold attempt to unearth the reasons why QUIC works better than TCP.Taking a Long Look at QUIC: An Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols
There is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols.COLUMN: Last byte
