From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...Pierre Larouche From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2009
Mobility is the way forward for Intel in 2009 with the number of notebooks outselling PCs and the vendor recording one of its highest sales for its mobile processor...Business 24/7 From ACM News | April 20, 2009
Wendy Hall discusses her plans to increase ACM's membership and to create task forces in China, India, and Europe.
Leah Hofmann From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2009
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest...Michael Buckley From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2009
Microsoft's Dan Reed is the director of the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) organization, whose overall goal is the transformation of the way people construct and...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2009
New York Times information architect Alex Wright says in an interview that there is a tendency to concentrate on information technology's future at the expenseView...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2009
Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell or sh programming language, says in an interview that the language aimed to remedy the problem of designing the shellView...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2009
Some advice for those doing the advising (and what the advisors can learn from the advisees).Jeffrey D. Ullman From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.David A. Patterson From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
Can you resell software even if the package says you can't? What are the implications for copyright law of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 2008 decision...Pamela Samuelson From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...Peter J. Denning, Richard D. Riehle From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2009
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
Barbara van Schewick, David Farber From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Recounting problems still associated with election integrity, transparency, and accountability.
Peter G. Neumann From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Governments concerned with national-security threats use the Internet to gather intelligence from communications traffic that transits local facilities. This surveillance...Kristina Irion From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Establishing the fundamentals of computational thinking is essential to improving computer science education.
George H. L. Fletcher, James J. Lu From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
Will the software development laboratories follow the production mills?Ashish Arora, Matej Drev, Chris Forman From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
One of the first things you'll notice about the new Communications Web site (cacm.acm.org) is that it has different...David Roman From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
E-voting can be as secure and confidential as paper-based voting, as discussed in "The U.S. Should Ban Paperless...CACM Staff From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
ACM members have a professional duty to ensure that the public comprehends and benefits from advances in computing.
Eugene H. Spafford From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2009
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer...Carol Xiaojuan Ou, Robert M. Davison From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2009