Writing clean code is a great start, but for programmers who really want to master their craft, you have to go further. You need to write clear code that other...Yegor Bugayenko From BLOG@CACM | March 12, 2020 at 10:29 PM
Many otherwise competent software developers and potential contributors end up being overwhelmed by "hazardous enthusiasm." They end up overwhelmed by their excitement...Yegor Bugayenko From BLOG@CACM | June 27, 2019 at 06:41 AM
If wearable computing products are really needed, what are the biggest practical and research challenges to mainstream adoption?
Saurabh Bagchi From BLOG@CACM | April 2, 2019 at 11:16 AM
Independent Audit of AI Systems is the next evolution of governance for artificial intelligence and automation.
Ryan Carrier From BLOG@CACM | February 12, 2019 at 03:03 PM
Concurrency control for readers and writers in a database is a classic problem that illustrates the power of message passing.
Carl Hewitt From BLOG@CACM | October 1, 2018 at 09:26 AM
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
Yegor Bugayenko From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2018 at 12:00 AM
In practice, it seems that avoiding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck has not resulted in any net gain.
Walid Saba From BLOG@CACM | February 26, 2018 at 09:55 AM
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | February 26, 2017 at 10:27 PM
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Jason J. Sauppe, and Steven E. Rigdon From BLOG@CACM | December 2, 2016 at 01:21 PM
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.Michael Stonebraker, Raul Castro Fernandez, Dong Deng, and Michael Brodie From BLOG@CACM | October 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Most programmers would agree that some programs are elegant, and that elegant programs are better than others.Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | October 11, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming competition in the world.
Courtney Coolidge From BLOG@CACM | May 16, 2016 at 09:22 AM
SC16 has replaced the standard HPC benchmarks in its popular Student Cluster Competition with the task of reproducing the results of a recent HPC paper.
Michela Taufer From BLOG@CACM | March 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM
ETH's Torsten Hoefler walks through a week of workshops, tutorials, papers, and his reactions to a week at SC.
Torsten Hoefler From BLOG@CACM | November 20, 2015 at 09:19 AM