Communications of the ACM
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December 2017
From ACM Opinion
Connectivity Hacking Back Makes a Comeback—but It's Still a Really Bad Idea
In spite of the billions of dollars companies collectively spend each year on cyberdefenses, hackers keep defeating them.
From ACM Careers
Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready For AI
Executives at ascendant tech titans like Amazon and Google tend to look down on their predecessor IBM.
From ACM Opinion
Apple Is Sharing Your Face with Apps. That's a New Privacy Worry.
Poop that mimics your facial expressions was just the beginning.
From ACM TechNews
The AI Guru Behind Amazon, ber, and nity Explains What AI Really Is
In an interview, Danish computer scientist Danny Lange, who has invented machine-learning platforms for technology giants such as Uber and Amazon, addresses the subtleties between true AI and technology that follows human scripts…
From Communications of the ACM
Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education
Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.
From Communications of the ACM
Lousy Advice to the Lovelorn
The 37% rule is rarely applicable in real-world situations. It is certainly entirely wrong-headed as advice for getting married.
From Communications of the ACM
The Death of Big Software
We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.
From Communications of the ACM
The Forgotten Engineer
Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
From Communications of the ACM
Cold, Hard Cache
On the implementation and maintenance of caches.