Communications of the ACM

The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.

After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.

Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.

Thirty-two of the 39 living A.M. Turing Award laureates gathered in San Francisco to pay tribute to "the father of CS" and discuss the past, present, and future of computing.

Journalists, historians, and the invention of email.

Wise experts and powerful machines are no match for chaotic events and human declarations. Beware of their predictions and be humble in your own.

A few predictions about predictions.

Seeking to improve the process for writing and reviewing proposals for new educational programs.

Some thoughts about author order in research papers.

A personal account of Alan Turing's life and impact.

Backward compatibility always trumps new features

Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.

In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.

Trust between client organization and cloud provider is a strong predictor of successful cloud deployment.

Continually verify self-adaptation decisions taken by critical software in response to changes in the operating environment.

3D UIs are uniquely able to achieve superior interaction fidelity, and this naturalism can be a huge advantage.

Last month (August 2012) we posted a trio of brainteasers concerning "magic sets." Here, we offer solutions to all three. How did you do?

Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe talks about increasing the number of women who study computer science.