Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Global computing
COLUMN: Inside risks
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
Start Small, Then Achieve Big Impact
ACM owes its success to an amazing cadre of volunteers around the globe, and they deserve the credit for what ACM accomplishes.DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
On Durability
I have become convinced that our consuming societies, at least in the economically "developed" world, have become sources of harm to ourselves and our planet.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Sizing the U.S. Student Cohort for Computer Science
Mark Guzdial considers indicators that U.S. K-12 students will study computer science.COLUMN: News
Learning to Trust Quantum Computers
They need to show us they can solve the biggest problems.Dark Web's Doppelgängers Aim to Dupe Antifraud Systems
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.Tracking Shoppers
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping habits and preferences.COLUMN: Global computing
Are We Losing Momentum?
Estimating when the second half of the world will come online.COLUMN: Inside risks
Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?
Using software to control potentially unsafe systems requires the use of new software and system engineering approaches.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.COLUMN: Viewpoint
When Human-Computer Interaction Meets Community Citizen Science
Empowering communities through citizen science.Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide — not a lecturer.SECTION: Practice
Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.Optimizations in C++ Compilers
A practical journey.SECTION: Contributed articles
Toward ML-Centric Cloud Platforms
Exploring the opportunities to use ML, the possible designs, and our experience with Microsoft Azure.Directions for Professional Social Matching Systems
Future PSM systems will require diversity-enhancing yet contextually sensitive designs.SECTION: Review articles
Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science
Reviewing software testing techniques for finding security vulnerabilities.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Lighting the Way to Visual Privacy
"Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED," presents a new technique to address the issue of cameras capturing proprietary or private information—it stops most digital cameras from recording a useful image while …Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED
We introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in specialized waveforms.COLUMN: Last byte
