Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Inside risks
COLUMN: Kode vicious
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
What Do DDT and Computing Have in Common?
In addition to reaping computing's bounty (education, information access, entertainment, commerce, efficiency, and more), we should "own" and work to reduce the negative impacts of computing.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Safety Proposal Points in Same Direction
In her February 2020 column ("Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?"), Nancy Leveson says the solution to software safety is not "building a software architecture and generating the requirements later." We are surprised …DEPARTMENT: Cerf's up
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.COLUMN: News
An Animating Spirit
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work.Leveraging Unlabeled Data
Deep learning looks for better pretexts.Seeing Through Walls
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.COLUMN: Inside risks
How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.COLUMN: Kode vicious
Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic
With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.AI and Accessibility
A discussion of ethical considerations.SECTION: Practice
Commit to Memory
Chipping away at Moore's Law.Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More
Leveraging expectations for better communication.SECTION: Contributed articles
Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.The 'Invisible' Materiality of Information Technology
It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.SECTION: Review articles
Contextual Word Representations: Putting Words into Computers
Advances in how programs treat natural language words have a big impact in AI.Street Lamps as a Platform
Strategically augmented street lamps can become the key enabling technology in smart cities.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem
"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input "looks like."Data-Driven Algorithm Design
We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.COLUMN: Last byte
