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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Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.

New apps and pods improve the virtual and actual retail experiences by ensuring clothing and cosmetics look good on you before you buy them.

As online reviews become increasingly important to e-commerce and social media sites, computer scientists work on ways to ensure their authenticity.

Improving the sharing economy will require addressing myriad problems.

Recapping influential U.S. Supreme Court decisions rendered earlier this year.

Recognizing the inherent limitations of consent and anonymity.

Seeking to address the most important issues facing the computer education research community.

Considering recent privacy- and security-related events through this column.

A critical review of open innovation systems.

How to encourage better user security practices and behavior

Better education needed to develop the discipline.

Conditional dependency resolution.

Looking at the design and benefits of X10.

Pixels labeled with a scene's semantics and geometry let computers describe what they see.

Strong ties connect individuals in the same community; weak ties connect individuals in different communities.

It's not just about being fair.

Cloth is essential to our everyday lives; consequently, visualizing and rendering cloth has been an important area of research in graphics for decades. One important aspect contributing to the rich appearance of cloth is its complex 3D structure. ...