Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: Departments
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Law and technology
COLUMN: Privacy and security
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Sustaining Open Collaboration in Universities
Increasing international tension and distrust, and its projection into universities, is eroding open collaboration and inquiry.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Polyglot!
Machine learning has taken over the computer science world as the tool of choice for a great many applications.DEPARTMENT: Departments
The Long Game of Research
Research is a long game; patience and endurance are necessary components.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
On Being 'Random Enough'
The concept of randomness is easy to grasp on an intuitive level but challenging to characterize in rigorous mathematical terms.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Why Programmers Should Curb Their Enthusiasm, and Thinking About Computational Thinking
Yegor Bugayenko ponders the dangers of "hazardous enthusiasm," while Mark Guzdial considers whether the need to teach computational thinking can be "designed away."COLUMN: News
An Inability to Reproduce
Big data and modern analytics offer enormous possibilities for research, provided scientists can produce consistent results.Augmented Reality Gets Real
Formidable optical challenges are yielding to intensive research, development.Can You Locate Your Location Data?
Smartphone apps offering location data services may be desirable, but their ability to collect personal data that can be sold to third parties is less attractive.COLUMN: Law and technology
Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code
A call to preserve the capability of developing the next generation of Internet services.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)
Seeking to make online voting more secure than today's flawed paper systems.COLUMN: The profession of IT
An Interview with Andrew Odlyzko on Cyber Security
Is a "Cyber Pearl Harbor" any greater a risk than a natural disaster? How shall we prioritize our preparations for a cyber disaster?COLUMN: Viewpoint
Bitwise: A Life in Code
Data science as a paradox.SECTION: Practice
Surviving Software Dependencies
Software reuse is finally here but comes with risks.Velocity in Software Engineering
From tectonic plate to F-16.DAML: The Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers
A discussion between Shaul Kfir and Camille Fournier.SECTION: Contributed articles
Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future
Computer and information scientists join forces with other fields to help solve societal and environmental challenges facing humanity, in pursuit of a sustainable future.Alloy: A Language and Tool for Exploring Software Designs
Exploiting a simple, expressive logic based on relations to describe designs and automate their analysis.SECTION: Review articles
EarSketch: Engaging Broad Populations in Computing Through Music
EarSketch leverages the appeal of music to create a learning environment that allows students to be expressive with code.Metadata-Private Communication for the 99%
Sketching the underlying system needed to facilitate metadata-private communication for several applications with a large user base.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: From Virtual Worlds to Digital Fabrication
The authors of "OpenFab" propose to revisit the processing pipeline that turns a 3D model into machine instructions in light of the solutions developed in computer graphics.OpenFab: A Programmable Pipeline for Multimaterial Fabrication
We present OpenFab, a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multimaterial 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines.COLUMN: Last byte
