Sustaining Open Collaboration in Universities

Increasing international tension and distrust, and its projection into universities, is eroding open collaboration and inquiry.

Andrew A. Chien

Polyglot!

Machine learning has taken over the computer science world as the tool of choice for a great many applications.

Vinton G. Cerf

The Long Game of Research

Research is a long game; patience and endurance are necessary components.

Moshe Y. Vardi

On Being 'Random Enough'

The concept of randomness is easy to grasp on an intuitive level but challenging to characterize in rigorous mathematical terms.

CACM Staff

Why Programmers Should Curb Their Enthusiasm, and Thinking About Computational Thinking

Yegor Bugayenko ponders the dangers of "hazardous enthusiasm," while Mark Guzdial considers whether the need to teach computational thinking can be "designed away."

Yegor Bugayenko, Mark Guzdial

An Inability to Reproduce

Big data and modern analytics offer enormous possibilities for research, provided scientists can produce consistent results.

Samuel Greengard

Augmented Reality Gets Real

Formidable optical challenges are yielding to intensive research, development.

Gary Anthes

Can You Locate Your Location Data?

Smartphone apps offering location data services may be desirable, but their ability to collect personal data that can be sold to third parties is less attractive.

Sarah Underwood

Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code

A call to preserve the capability of developing the next generation of Internet services.

Eric Goldman

Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)

Seeking to make online voting more secure than today's flawed paper systems.

Hilarie Orman

An Interview with Andrew Odlyzko on Cyber Security

Is a "Cyber Pearl Harbor" any greater a risk than a natural disaster? How shall we prioritize our preparations for a cyber disaster?

Peter J. Denning, Andrew Odlyzko

Bitwise: A Life in Code

Data science as a paradox.

David Auerbach

Surviving Software Dependencies

Software reuse is finally here but comes with risks.

Russ Cox

Velocity in Software Engineering

From tectonic plate to F-16.

Tom Killalea

DAML: The Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers

A discussion between Shaul Kfir and Camille Fournier.

Shaul Kfir, Camille Fournier

Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future

Computer and information scientists join forces with other fields to help solve societal and environmental challenges facing humanity, in pursuit of a sustainable future.

Carla Gomes, Thomas Dietterich, Christopher Barrett, Jon Conrad, Bistra Dilkina, Stefano Ermon, Fei Fang, Andrew Farnsworth, Alan Fern, Xiaoli Fern, Daniel Fink, Douglas Fisher, Alexander Flecker, Daniel Freund, Angela Fuller, John Gregoire, John Hopcroft, Steve Kelling, Zico Kolter, Warren Powell, Nicole Sintov, John Selker, Bart Selman, Daniel Sheldon, David Shmoys, Milind Tambe, Weng-Keen Wong, Christopher Wood, Xiaojian Wu, Yexiang Xue, Amulya Yadav, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Mary Lou Zeeman

Alloy: A Language and Tool for Exploring Software Designs

Exploiting a simple, expressive logic based on relations to describe designs and automate their analysis.

Daniel Jackson

EarSketch: Engaging Broad Populations in Computing Through Music

EarSketch leverages the appeal of music to create a learning environment that allows students to be expressive with code.

Jason Freeman, Brian Magerko, Doug Edwards, Tom Mcklin, Taneisha Lee, Roxanne Moore

Metadata-Private Communication for the 99%

Sketching the underlying system needed to facilitate metadata-private communication for several applications with a large user base.

Yossi Gilad

Technical Perspective: From Virtual Worlds to Digital Fabrication

The authors of "OpenFab" propose to revisit the processing pipeline that turns a 3D model into machine instructions in light of the solutions developed in computer graphics.

Sylvain Lefebvre

OpenFab: A Programmable Pipeline for Multimaterial Fabrication

We present OpenFab, a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multimaterial 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and modern GPU pipelines.

Kiril Vidimče, Szu-Po Wang, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Wojciech Matusik

Inspired by the Home of the Future

2018 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Shwetak Patel pushes old tools to new heights.

Leah Hoffmann