Sixty years ago, Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill produced the first textbook on programming: The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital...Martin Campbell-Kelly From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2011
Assessing the threat the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act pose for fair use.Rebecca Tushnet From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art’s "Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects" is one of the smartest design shows in years—by which I mean...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 29, 2011
The publication culture in computer science is different. Whereas other disciplines focus on journal publication, the standard practice...Joseph Y. Halpern, David C. Parkes From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2011
An assessment of the U.S. government's EINSTEIN project.S. M. Bellovin, S. O. Bradner, W. Diffie, S. Landau, J. Rexford From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2011
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company that liberated corporate email from the PC. In...Time From ACM Opinion | July 8, 2011
When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in 2006, there was understandable concern that the media conglomerate that drove...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 7, 2011
Viewing computer science in a broader context to dispel common misperceptions and provide more accurate guidance to students who are...Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2011
Addressing the challenges of increasing the number of women of color in computing and ensuring their success.Maria (Mia) Ong From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2011
Reinstituting formalities — notice of copyright claims and registration requirements — could help address problems related to too many copyrights that last for...Pamela Samuelson From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2011
Focusing on socio-technical design with values as a critical component in the design process.Cory Knobel, Geoffrey C. Bowker From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2011
Supply chains are increasingly global. We pour energy into managing them efficiently, with their risks and rewards...Mari Sako From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2011
Software developers should use empirical methods to analyze their designs to predict how working systems will behave.
Clayton T. Morrison, Richard T. Snodgrass From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
Good software design is never easy, but stopping too soon makes the job more difficult.David Lorge Parnas From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
One of the most popular and successful approaches to estimating software projects is the Putnam model. Developed in the 1970s by...Phillip G. Armour From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
Considerable progress has been made toward the formation of a computing profession since we started tracking it in this column a decade ago.
Peter J. Denning, Dennis J. Frailey From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace represents a shift in the way the U.S. government is approaching identity management, privacy, and the...Ari Schwartz From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011