Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: From the president
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Education
COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
COLUMN: Kode vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Dispelling Common Myths About ACM Awards and Honors
Have you wondered why a person you admire has not received an ACM award? As a former ACM Awards Chair, I'd like to share some insights on what makes nominations effective.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Undo, Redo, and Regrets
Some actions or decisions are irreversible. We would do ourselves a great favor if we were to design our digital systems to the maximum extent possible to avoid irreversible traps.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
A Case Against Mission-Critical Applications of Machine Learning
In their column "Learning Machine Learning" (Dec. 2018), Ted G. Lewis and Peter J. Denning raised a crucial question about machine learning systems.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Cutting the Wait For CS Advice
Mark Guzdial suggests ways to cut the long lines for college students seeking to meet with their computer science advisors.COLUMN: News
The Algorithm That Changed Quantum Machine Learning
A college student discovered a classical computing algorithm that experts overlooked. It promises to change both classical and quantum machine learning.I Don't Understand My Car
Self-driving cars will need good communication skills.What Makes a Robot Likable?
Interactions with robotics teach us more about people.COLUMN: Education
Block-based Programming in Computer Science Education
Considering how block-based programming environments and tools might be used at the introductory level and beyond.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
A Response to Fake News as a Response to Citizens United
How boundaries on speech could free the market for speech.COLUMN: Kode vicious
MUST and MUST NOT
On writing documentation.COLUMN: Viewpoint
The Success of the Web: A Triumph of the Amateurs
Connecting the unique factors that influenced the origination and subsequent development of the World Wide Web.SECTION: Practice
Industry-Scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and Challenges
Five diverse technology companies show how it's done.Research for Practice: The DevOps Phenomenon
An executive crash course.Overly Attached
Know when to let go of emotional attachment to your work.SECTION: Contributed articles
Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Across CS Education
A Harvard-based pilot program integrates class sessions on ethical reasoning into courses throughout its computer science curriculum.Scaling Static Analyses at Facebook
Key lessons for designing static analysis tools deployed to find bugs in hundreds of millions of lines of code.SECTION: Review articles
Activity-Centric Computing Systems
The ability to build a construct that organizes work from different devices and information resources is as complex as it is invaluable.The History of Digital Spam
Tracing the tangled web of unsolicited and undesired email and possible strategies for its demise.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The True Cost of Popularity
The main focus of "Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering" by Kasper Green Larsen et al. is on building up sufficient information to allow a more effective search process.Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering
We develop a new algorithm for the turnstile heavy hitters problem in general turnstile streams, the EXPANDERSKETCH, which finds the approximate top-k items in a universe of size n using the same asymptotic O(k log n) words of …COLUMN: Last byte
