"Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists”
The New York Times, October 8, 2024
With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers."

"Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win the Nobel Prize in Physics”
The Associated Press, October 8, 2024
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence—John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning.

"Rethinking Privacy: A Tech Expert’s Perspective”
Help Net Security, September 26, 2024
Micah Altman, lead co-author of ACM's TechBrief on Data Privacy Protection, discusses where our current approaches fall short and how we can better protect personal information.

"Future Cybersecurity Incidents are Almost a Certainty," Asserts US Policy Arm of Global Computing Society”
TechXplore, August 26, 2024
The Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) has released a Statement on Mass Cybersecurity Incidents Likely to Recur.

"How to Make the Internet More Accessible”
Boston Globe, August 2, 2024
Despite the availability of tools to make the digital world accessible, many websites and digital services remain inaccessible to people with disabilities.

"With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now”
Quanta Magazine, July 26, 2024
By creating a digital twin of your circulatory system, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts.

"Duke Professor Says Her Supercomputing Simulations Can Help Device Developers”
Medical Design & Outsourcing, July 23, 2024
ACM Prize recipient Amanda Randles has developed computational methods that create ultra-realistic 3D simulations of biological processes within the human body down to the cellular level.

"Why Prof. Amruth Kumar Wants to Make Ethics ‘Unavoidable’ in Computer Science”
ITBrew, June 27, 2024
Tomorrow’s computer class will likely have a lot more conversation if new curricula recs are followed.

"Could Antitrust Probes Lead to AI Market Upheaval?”
Information Week, June 13, 2024
The DOJ and FTC are launching antitrust investigations into AI market titans Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia.

"Behind an Association Journal’s Open-Access Move”
AssociationsNow, March 26, 2023
The Association for Computing Machinery, following a broader trend, has made its flagship publication available for free, part of an evolving business model for research-based organizations.

"Don’t Let Facial Recognition Technology Get Ahead of Principles”
The Washington Post, March 12, 2023
Technology advances at a lightning pace; law and policy move more deliberately. But this doesn't mean they can't get in pace.

"Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?”
The Hill, February 28, 2023
ACM's TechBrief on Safer Algorithmic Systems calls for human-centered social systems to provide independent oversight and safety culture strategies.

"As AI Booms, Reducing Risks of Algorithmic Systems is a Must, Says New ACM Brief”
VentureBeat, January 25, 2023
AI might be booming, but a new brief from ACM's global Technology Policy Council notes that the ubiquity of algorithmic systems “creates serious risks that are not being adequately addressed.”

 

"Don’t Let Facial Recognition Technology Get Ahead of Principles”
The Washington Post, March 12, 2023
Technology advances at a lightning pace; law and policy move more deliberately. But this doesn't mean they can't get in pace.

"Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?”
The Hill, February 28, 2023
ACM's TechBrief on Safer Algorithmic Systems calls for human-centered social systems to provide independent oversight and safety culture strategies.

"Gordon Bell Discusses New Prize for Climate Modeling”
HPCWire, February 8, 2023
Gordon Bell talks about the new ACM award and his decision to initiate it.

"As AI Booms, Reducing Risks of Algorithmic Systems is a Must, Says New ACM Brief”
VentureBeat, January 25, 2023
AI might be booming, but a new brief from ACM's global Technology Policy Council notes that the ubiquity of algorithmic systems “creates serious risks that are not being adequately addressed.”

 

"Responsible AI Relishes Preeminent Boost Via AI Ethics Proclamation by Top Professional Society the ACM”
Forbes, November 27, 2022
Latest AI Ethics precepts as provided via a major computing profession association that carries some hefty weight.

"Kudos Announces Launch of the 'Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Cooperative'”
Infodocket.com, September 21, 2022
A new collaboration showcases research about AI published by ACM, AIP Publishing, ASTM, and IOP Publishing.

“Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them"
Wired, September 1, 2022
The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.

“Why Does an AI Faculty Shortage Exist? It’s Complicated."
InsideHigherEd.com, July 11, 2022
The dearth of artificial intelligence professors at U.S. universities is not the result of a distorted job market, according to a recent report. Some experts urge caution in relying on industry to fill the AI teaching gap.

“The Way Things Were”: How the Association for Computing Machinery Is Opening the Doors to Its Archives"
AssociationNow.com, May 23, 2022
ACM, in the midst of both a landmark celebration and a broader open-access initiative, is putting its history online for anyone to access. The archives give computing enthusiasts something to celebrate—and interested parties a window into ACM’s evolution.

"Government agencies are tapping a facial recognition company to prove you’re you – here’s why that raises concerns about privacy, accuracy and fairness"
The Conversation, February 1, 2022
As the U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company to file taxes online, ACM Fellow and Chair of ACM’s Technology Policy Council Jim Hendler cautions that the government should put a great deal of care and due diligence into exploring the terrain ahead.

 

"Study Shows How ML Could Improve COVID-19 Predictive Models"
Brown University, December 1, 2021
George Karniadakis (ACM Gordon Bell Prize and SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering recipient) said nine prominent COVID-19 prediction models were incorrect and ineffective because they treated key parameter values as fixed over time.

Media Coverage of 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize:
South China Morning Post
XinhuaNet
HPCWire
The Next Platform
Gaming Deputy

Media Coverage of 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research:
HPCWire
Asahi Shimbun

"JPMorgan bankers learn to work with expanding AI team"
efinancialcareers.com, November 4, 2021
Speaking at ACM's ICAIF conference, JP Morgan's Managing Director for AI research Sameena Shah said the team is hiring and that students with an interest in AI should absolutely get in touch.

"It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes"
Inside Higher Ed, November 3, 2021
As remote testing becomes pervasive, colleges should ask some fundamental and wide-ranging questions, ACM USTPC Chair Jeremy Epstein and Christopher Kang write.

"Next Steps on the U.S. AI Bill of Rights"
Washington Spectator, November 2, 2021
Past ACM global Technology Policy Council Chair Lorraine Kisselburgh and Marc Rotenberg of the Center for AI and Digital Policy outline why a set of basic rights and responsibilities for the use of AI is important.

"Rice Web Server Helps Identify COVID-19 Drug Candidates"
Rice University News, November 1, 2021
ACM Athena Lecturer Lydia Kavraki and multi-institutional colleagues have posted a "user-friendly" Web server for screening drug candidates virtually in relation to known protein-binding pockets on the pathogen.

"Advancing Your Tech Career Through Industry Groups and Clubs"
Dice.com, October 27, 2021
ACM is recommended as a valuable career resource.

"Delta to Roll Out Facial Recognition in Atlanta Domestic Terminal"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 2021
The ACM global Technology Policy Council last year warned facial recognition "has often compromised fundamental human and legal rights of individuals to privacy, employment, justice, and personal liberty." However, Council Chair James Hendler wrote that Delta's implementation "makes it clear where and how it is being used," offers an opt-out process, and has human backup for when the system malfunctions.

"Data Mining Conference Honors Best Papers on COVID-19, Disaster Work Zones, More"
HPCwire, September 30, 2021
ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) named three of 2,200 submitted papers to receive the SIGKDD Best Paper Awards for advancing basic understanding of knowledge discovery in data and data mining.

"Digital Sky Survey Receives SIGMOD Award"
FermiLab, September 20, 2021
ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data recognizes astronomy project with its Systems Award for its "early and influential demonstration of the power of data science to transform a scientific domain."

"Foster et al. Receive Most Influential Paper Award for Network Programming Language"
Cornell Chronicle, September 10, 2021
ACM SIGPLAN's International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) named research from 2011 co-authored by Cornell University's Nate Foster the Most Influential Paper for its creation of a network programming language.

"Professor awarded Test of Time award for paper on data privacy"
Penn State News, July 23, 2021
A 2011 paper on data privacy co-authored by Dan Kifer, professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, received the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award.

"Computer Science Professor Wins 'Test of Time' Award for Influential Paper"
USC Viterbi News, July 20, 2021
Shang-Hua Teng honored with SIGACT's Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Test-of-Time Award.

"James Hendler Named Chair of ACM Technology Policy Council"
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, July 7, 2021
ACM global tech policy group's new Chair hopes to generate policy papers on wide-ranging topics, including AI, autonomous vehicles, social media, data sharing, and privacy protection.

"Reddy’s Wager: So, How Long Before Babel Fish Becomes a Reality"
Analytics India, July 7, 2021
ACM Turing Award laureate Raj Reddy posits that in 10 years, there will be a 21st-century version of Babel fish, an earpiece that can translate hundreds of languages in real time. (The device was a prop in the sci-fi blockbuster "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.")

"Recognition for NoSQL Pioneers"
IProgrammer, July 5, 2021
The three creators of Berkeley DB, an early exemplar of the NoSQL movement, were recognized with the 2020 ACM Software System Award.

"What draws private sector tech execs to government?"
CIODive, June 30, 2021
ACM Journal on Digital Government: Research and Practice co-Editor-in-Chief Beth Simone Noveck says, "What's kept me going back [to the public sector] is this chance to really make a difference in terms of people's lives."

"WWW Code That Changed the World Up for Auction as NFT"
Reuters, June 15, 2021
Computer scientist and ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Tim Berners-Lee's original source code for what would become the World Wide Web now is part of a non-fungible token (NFT) that Sotheby's will auction off, with bidding to start at $1,000.

Media Coverage of Ayanna Howard, 2021-2022 ACM Athena Lecturer:
MIT Technology Review
Robotics 24/7
HPC Wire

"Researchers' Algorithm Designs Soft Robots that Sense"
MIT News, March 22, 2021
ACM Fellow Daniela Rus of MIT says, "Automating the design of sensorized soft robots is an important step toward rapidly creating intelligent tools that help people with physical tasks."

"An existential discussion: What is the probability of nuclear war?"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 18, 2021
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates Martin Hellman and Vint Cerf discuss National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project seeking to answer the question of whether the US should use quantitative methods to assess the risks of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism.

"ACM SIGIR Academy to recognize contributions to information retrieval"
EurekAlert!, March 2, 2021
ACM’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval announces SIGIR Academy to honor and recognize individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the IR field.

"Australian Media Law Raises Questions About 'Pay for Clicks'"
AP News, February 18, 2021
At a recent Australian Senate committee hearing, ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee said, "Specifically, I am concerned that that code risks breaching a fundamental principle of the Web by requiring payment for linking between certain content online."

"Experts Discuss Challenges of Voting in An Electronic Age"
Government Technology, February 17, 2021
ACM USTPC convened panel, “Technology & Trust: Voting in the Electronic Age," which included voting experts from government, research and academia. Watch video here.

"Sensor Takes Guesswork Out of N95 Decontamination"
University of Michigan, February 16, 2021
Researchers created a wireless sensor platform that monitors temperature, humidity, and time to ensure ideal conditions for sanitizing N95 facemasks using moist-heat decontamination. The research received an award in a special session on COVID-19 Response Research at ACM's Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

"Shafi Goldwasser Wins L'Oréal-UNESCO Award"
MIT News, February 12, 2021
Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award, has been named the laureate for North America in the 2021 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards.

"Edmund Melson Clarke, Creator of Model Checking, Dies at 75"
IEEE Spectrum, January 11, 2021
Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and computer scientist Joseph Sifakis were named recipients of the 2007 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their role in developing model checking into a highly effective verification technology that has been widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.

"He Created the Web. Now He's Out to Remake the Digital World"
The New York Times, January 10, 2021
World Wide Web creator and 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee hopes to bring the Web back to his original vision of a decentralized marketplace through personal online data stores (pods), with users controlling their data in individual vaults.

"Leading Computer Scientists Debate the Next Steps for AI in 2021"
VentureBeat, January 2, 2021
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl said AI systems require world knowledge and common sense to use the data they receive most efficiently.

 

"Gift from Ann S. Bowers '59 Creates New College of Computing and Information Science"
Cornell Chronicle, December 17, 2020
Bowers' gift "will propel Cornell to lead the way in addressing the technological and societal challenges of our time," said ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Computer Graphics Achievement Award recipient Kavita Bala.

"Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies at 88"
The New York Times, December 11, 2020
"It was an incredibly audacious idea, real out-of-the-box engineering," said Google Chief Internet Evangelist and former ACM president Vinton Cerf, of Abramson's ALOHAnet wireless network.

"Researchers Receive Hall of Fame Award for Seminal Paper on Smartphone Security"
Penn State News, December 7, 2020
ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) named a multi-institutional research team to receive a Hall of Fame Award for a 2010 paper that detailed how smartphone applications use personal data.

"Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Research Announced"
UC San Diego, November 20, 2020

"UC San Diego Leads Research that Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize"
UC San Diego, November 19, 2020
The authors built an artificial intelligence-based workflow to more efficiently model the SARS-CoV-2's spike protein, and scaled it to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit supercomputer.

"Gordon Bell Special Prize Goes to Massive SARS CoV2 Simulations"
HPCWire, November 19, 2020

"Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning for Molecular Dynamics"
Next Platform, November 23, 2020

"Gordon Bell Prize Winner Breaks Ground in AI-Infused Ab Initio Simulation"
HPCWire, November 20, 2020

"Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?"
Nature, November 18, 2020
ACM US Tech Policy Committee statement on facial recognition referenced.

"The ‘Most Secure’ U.S. Election Was Not Without Problems"
Government Technology, November 16, 2020
Former ACM President Barbara Simons suggests that increased transparency and more dedicated investment in auditable machinery should be prioritized.

"Blockchain voting is the alternative for trusted democratic elections"
Cointelegraph, November 14, 2020
ACM USTPC Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein co-authored electoral security report, “Email and Internet Voting: The Overlooked Threat to Election Security.”

"CS Education Still Not in Majority of U.S. Schools”
eSchool News, November 13, 2020
Research by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance indicates that fewer than half of US schools are teaching computer science. ACM founded CSTA and is a partner in Code.org.

"4 Teams Using ORNL's Summit Supercomputer Named Finalists for 2020 Gordon Bell Prize"
HPC Wire, November 11, 2020
Four projects named by ACM as finalists for the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding high-performance computing achievement used the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

"NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web"
Financial Times, November 9, 2020
The UK's National Health Service is one of more than a dozen partners that have signed up for a pilot program of Inrupt, a company founded by World Wide Web inventor and 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee to promote a new web data architecture. Note: subscription required

"Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality"
The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2020
Academy Award-winning visual-effects artist Paul Debevec at the University of Southern California helped design the Life Stage, perhaps the most refined device for capturing digital scans of humans for animation. Debevec was recognized by ACM SIGGRAPH with its first Significant New Researcher Award. Note: subscription required

"'Sneakernet' Helps Election Officials Process Results"
The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2020
Former ACM President Barbara Simons says any electronic method comes with the potential for mistakes or abuse, such as software bugs that might give a vote to candidate A when it should have gone to candidate B.

"Turing Award for Computer Scientists: More Inclusiveness Needed"
IEEE Spectrum, November 2, 2020
National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) professor argues ACM’s Turing Award needs to recognize more geographic/ethnic diversity.

"Taking Back Our Privacy"
The New Yorker, October 26, 2020
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman's dual cryptographic key system revolutionized encryption technology; ACM Prize in Computing recipient Dan Boneh also mentioned. Note: paid registration may be required.

"Translating Lost Languages Using ML"
MIT News, October 21, 2020
ACM member Regina Barzilay and Jiaming Luo (both of MIT) developed a decipherment algorithm that can segment words in an ancient language and map them to words in related languages.

"Experts: Florida Voting Machines Ripe for Foreign Hackers"
Government Technology, October 16, 2020
ACM Fellow Andrew Appel of Princeton University said a hacker could penetrate a border router from the internet or by walking near a polling place with a Stingray, a portable device that can capture data by mimicking a cellphone tower.

"Deep Learning Gives Drug Design Boost"
Rice University, October 5, 2020
ACM Fellow and multiple ACM award recipient Lydia Kavraki and colleagues unveiled Metabolite Translator, a computational tool that predicts the production of metabolites, the results of interactions between small molecules like drugs and enzymes.

"AI Could Expand Healing with Bioscaffolds"
Rice University, September 21, 2020
ACM Fellow and multiple ACM award recipient Lydia Kavraki said, "We were able to give feedback on which [printing] parameters are most likely to affect the quality of printing, so when they continue their experimentation, they can focus on some parameters and ignore the others."

"New Technologies Shaping Today’s Big Data World"
Big Data Quarterly, September 11, 2020
Big Data “is like oil in our new era, and machine learning is the technique to turn raw oil into gas and many powerful products,” said Jian Pei, Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery from Data (SIGKDD) and professor at Simon Fraser University.

"USPS blockchain voting patent not ready for primetime, experts say"
Decrypt, August 18, 2020
ACM USTPC Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein says the patent application “attempts to cover every conceivable voting architecture with a blockchain in it (and any kind of blockchain), with the result that it recommends no specific architecture at all.”

"Mockapetris Receives ACM Software System Award"
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, August 27, 2020
Mockapetris received the award for development of the Domain Name System (DNS) while working at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.

"USC ISI Researchers Honored for Contributions to Networking Simulator"
USC Viterbi News, August 13, 2020
The ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) named researchers from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute to receive the 2020 Networking Systems Award.

"Facebook's AI Chief Pushes The Technology's Limits"
The Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2020
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Yann LeCun is one of a handful of scientists at companies and universities world-wide training artificial intelligence to better learn by itself.

"AI-Driven Cacophonic Choir Amplifies Voices of Sexual Assault Survivors"
CNet, August 12, 2020
The 2020 ACM SIGGRAPH conference's online art gallery will showcase an artificial intelligence-powered interactive sound installation designed to amplify the accounts and voices of sexual assault survivors.

"Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88"
The New York Times, August 8, 2020
Frances Allen, the first woman to receive the ACM A.M. Turing Award and early computer software pioneer, passed away on Tuesday, August 4.

"Gilbert Creates Inline Ticketing System to Lower Health Risk When Voting"
University of Florida, August 5, 2020
Juan Gilbert, former Coalition to Diversify Computing Chair, has created a ticketing system to help voters maintain social distancing while exercising their right to vote.

"SCOTUS Can Stop Abuse of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act"
Bloomberg Law, August 3, 2020
The purpose of the CFAA was to proscribe hacking, and not to turn a breach of a contract, company policy, or website notice into a federal criminal offense, says Andrew Grosso, Chair of the law subcommittee of ACM's US Technology Policy Committee.

"Rock Star, Web Founder Teaming Up on Technology"
Bloomberg Quint, July 17, 2020
The Interspecies I/O forum has announced the $1 million Coller Prize for Interspecies Conversation, whose backers include rock artist Peter Gabriel, former ACM president and Turing Award recipient Vint Cerf, and private equity investor Jeremy Coller. “Now that machine learning has become a powerful tool, one can start imagining trying to extract signals from the interactions that we observe intra-species, in the same way that we train the machine learning systems to translate between languages,” said Cerf.

"Publishers Develop Inclusive Name-Change Policies"
The Scientist, July 14, 2020
ACM is one of the first publishers to enact a policy allowing authors to change their names on previous work.

"ACM SIGHPC Announces Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner"
HPCwire, July 13, 2020
The ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing has named Google software engineer Patrick Flick to receive the 2020 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award.

 

Coverage of ACM US Tech Policy Committee’s Statement on Facial Recognition:

"Large-scale facial recognition is incompatible with a free society"
The Conversation, July 9, 2020
"How can we ban facial recognition when it’s already everywhere?"
Vox, July 6, 2020
"ACM Calls for Temporary Ban of Facial Recognition Systems"
Etcentric, July 6, 2020
"The U.S. calls for ban on face recognition technology"
US News Latest, July 2, 2020
"ACM statement on facial recognition technology"
AIHub, July 1, 2020
"ACM’s U.S. Policy Committee pushes for facial recognition suspension, Boston Mayor signs ban"
Biometric Update, July 1, 2020
"ACM Calls for Suspension of Facial Recognition Use"
Decipher, July 1, 2020
"ACM calls for governments and businesses to stop using facial recognition"
World Best News, July 1, 2020
"ACM Calls for Governments, Businesses to Stop Using Facial Recognition"
VentureBeat, June 30, 2020
"Facial Recognition Has a New Foe—the World's Largest Group of Computing Professionals"
NBC News, June 30, 2020
Comments on Reddit

 

"How fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media— and what you can do about it"
The Conversation, June 24, 2020
ACM US Technology Policy Committee’s Jeanna Matthews explains how social media platforms can be easily manipulated to curate what users see, based in part on “likes” or “votes.”

"Why You Can’t Just Vote on Your Phone During the Pandemic"
The New Yorker, June 19, 2020
“Attackers may well use a low-consequence election to scout out the landscape, learn the vulnerabilities, and then save their opportunities for attacking a real election later on,” says ACM USTPC Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein.

"Ceze, Strauss Share ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award"
University of Washington, June 16, 2020
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture cites UW, Microsoft researchers for work on DNA-based digital data storage.

"Discovering How the Brain Works through Computation"
Columbia Engineering, June 11, 2020
Team led by ACM Fellow Christos Papadimitriou proposes a new computational system to expand the understanding of the brain at an intermediate level, between neurons and cognitive phenomena such as language.

"Prof. Tauhid Zaman Receives Test of Time Award "
Yale School of Management, June 9, 2020
A 2010 study by Yale School of Management's Tauhid Zaman and Devavrat Shah was awarded the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award, which recognizes research with a lasting impact on computer systems performance evaluation.

"ISCA Honors Scientists for Paper's Lasting Impact"
UC San Diego News Center, June 3, 2020
Paper by University of California, San Diego scientists wins Influential Paper Award at ISCA 2020.

"Brave new world: five things to consider before going virtual"
Association Meetings International, June 3, 2020
ACM provides guide to best practices for virtual conferences.

"European Tech Groups Seek Privacy Controls on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tools"
Associations Now, May 19, 2020
ACM Europe Tech Policy Committee’s statement calls on governments to factor in privacy when considering contact tracing systems.

"Risks Overshadow Benefits with Online Voting, Experts Warn"
Government Technology, May 15, 2020
"Given the threat of the virus, vote-by-mail seems like the safest way for voters to cast their ballots in November," says former ACM president Barbara Simons.

"UCLA Student Club Honored by World's Largest Educational, Scientific Computing Society"
UCLA Samueli Newsroom, May 15, 2020
ACM has named its University of California, Los Angeles Student Chapter to receive its Outstanding School Service Award for 2020.

"VR Blood Flow Simulation to Improve Cardiovascular Interventions"
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, May 13, 2020
2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Amanda Randles has demonstrated that HARVEY, a simulation tool whose code she developed, can accurately model blood flow through patient-specific aortas and other vascular geometries on longer scales.

"Experts say mobile voting tech isn't the answer to COVID-19"
TechTarget, May 13, 2020
"It's pretty obvious that the coronavirus is making it difficult to have our standard election. That's having an even bigger impact in urban centers where voting lines can already last for hours and be quite packed. And people are looking for other ways we can have the constitutionally mandated vote without putting people at risk," said ACM US Technology Policy Committee Chair Jim Hendler.

"European comms bodies set up standards group, call for vigilance on contact-tracing apps"
Computer Weekly, May 13, 2020
ACM’s Europe Technology Policy Committee calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy and scrutiny in Covid-19 contact tracing. Read their statement and principles.

"Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio: Self-Supervised Learning Is Key to Human-Level Intelligence"
VentureBeat, May 2, 2020
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipients Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio say that self-supervised learning could lead to the creation of artificial intelligence programs that are more humanlike in their reasoning.

"CICS Faculty, Alumni to Receive ACM PODS Test-of-Time Award"
University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 22, 2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) professor Gerome Miklau, associate professor Andrew McGregor, and alumni Chao Li and Michael Hay will receive the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award at ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2020.

"Your Internet Is Working. Thank These Cold War-Era Pioneers Who Designed It to Handle Almost Anything"
The Washington Post, April 6, 2020
Designers like Vinton G. Cerf, former president of ACM and a 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient, aimed to create a system resilient enough to remain operable after a nuclear attack by continuously calculating and recalculating the best data-transmission routes.

"Artificial intelligence isn’t as smart as it thinks"
Politico, March 11, 2020
ACM Fellow Anil Jain says there's a possibility that facial recognition systems may be biased because of how they are trained.

"Inside Code of Conduct"
Association Forum, March 4, 2020
“We use the [ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct] in a proactive way—we intend for it to be aspirational,” says ACM Committee on Professional Ethics Co-chair Marty Wolf.

"Engaging talks by experts at ACM annual event"
Times of India, February 28, 2020
ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Yann LeCun, ACM Prize in Computing recipient Shwetak Patel, and ACM Lawler Award recipient M Balakrishnan were among the luminaries who spoke at this year’s ACM India Annual Event.

"Should All Children Learn to Code by the End of High School?"
The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2020
Robert Sedgewick (2018 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Award Outstanding Educator recipient) and Stanford University's Larry Cuban disagree on whether computer coding should be a graduation requirement for high school students. Article access available through CACM subscription.

"MIT Researchers Say Mobile Voting App Is Rife with Vulnerabilities"
Computerworld, February 13, 2020
Jeremy Epstein, Vice Chair of ACM's ACM US Technology Policy Committee, said, "Any election official using Voatz products would be well advised to cancel their plans, before a stealthy attack in a real election compromises democracy."

"Kicking off a New Approach to Cyber Ethics at the Department of Defense"
War on the Rocks, February 12, 2020
ACM Code of Ethics recommended for adoption by US Department of Defense.

"Iowa Caucus Chaos Likely to Set Back Mobile Voting"
Computerworld, February 4, 2020
“The Iowa Democratic Party had planned to allow voters to vote in the caucus using their phones; if this sort of meltdown had happened with actual votes, it would have been an actual disaster," said ACM US Technology Policy Committee Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein.

"Keith Webster: Libraries will champion an open future for scholarship"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 29, 2020
Former ACM Publications Board member Webster, now Dean of University Libraries and Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives at Carnegie Mellon, says "great progress has been made, but we need to do more if we are to address the wishes of the scientific community."

"Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse"
MIT Technology Review, January 29, 2020
Preview of a paper to be presented at CHI 2020.

"Seattle Tries Out Mobile Voting"
Computerworld, January 28, 2020
ACM US Technology Policy Committee Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein says Seattle’s “experiment is very ill-advised,” and that voters who use it are hoping the software correctly records their vote, even though “there's no way to ensure that's the case.”

"Hey Google, are my housemates using my smart speaker?"
Science Daily, January 28, 2020
University of British Columbia researchers’ paper to be presented at CHI 2020 finds people are concerned about friends, family and others having access to these devices.

"'I Wish We Could Connect on This Level.' Memes Still Aren't Accessible to People Who Are Blind. What's Being Done About It?"
TIME, January 27, 2020
Paper on memes by Columbia, Carnegie Mellon researchers presented at ASSETS 2019.

"Compassionate Health IT Understands Whom It’s Dealing With: News from a Lumeon Installation"
Health Care IT Today, January 27, 2020
Andy Oram, who participates in ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee, says that health IT can solve many of health care’s problems, but only when it's designed and rolled out with the greatest sensitivity to the needs of the users.

"California to resume Elsevier talks after signing deals elsewhere"
Times Higher Education, January 25, 2020
University of California signs open access agreement with ACM; discussions with Elsevier on similar agreement resume.

"It takes too long to detect hacking after elections. Here’s 3 ways to help"
Fifth Domain, January 24, 2020
ACM US Technology Policy Committee Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein offers three non-technical actions that can be taken, pre-election, to make it more difficult for foreign governments and others to successfully use technology to interfere.

"Why Have So Few Women Won the Turing Award?"
Slate, January 6, 2020
ACM has made some progress toward gender inclusivity with regard to the Turing Award in recent years. This article explores how it could do more.

"Indian American at Princeton named Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery"
News India Times, January 6, 2020
Princeton University computer science professors Michael Freedman and Mona Singh named 2019 ACM Fellows.

 

"Twitter, Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?"
The New York Times, December 18, 2019
World Wide Web creator and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee founded the company Solid to fix issues related to the centralized Internet by shifting ownership of personal data to users, and not to big corporations.

"Argonne-Led Team Wins Technology Challenge at SC19 "
Argonne National Laboratory, December 17, 2019
Multi-institutional project led by researchers at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory wins SCinet Technology Challenge at SC19.

"Developing a Digital Twin"
University of Texas at Austin, December 4, 2019
Researchers present predictive digital twin for a custom-built unmanned aerial vehicle at SC19.

"Students learn about cybersecurity"
El Paso Community College, December 3, 2019
The ACM Student Chapter at EPCC and in collaboration with the White Sands Missile Range organized a workshop on cybersecurity titled "Man in the Middle Cybersecurity Capture the Flag Workshop."

"UNM's Estrada Honored at SC19"
University of New Mexico, November 26, 2019
University of New Mexico's Trilce Estrada receives the 2019 ACM Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award at SC19.

"Tim Berners-Lee Launches 'Contract for the Web' to Govern Internet Giants, Governments"
Computing, November 25, 2019
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recipient of the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his invention of the World Wide Web, has launched a global plan of action to govern the behavior of Internet giants and governments.

"A 'simulation booster' for nanoelectronics"
PhysOrg, November 22, 2019
Two research groups from ETH Zurich (who received the 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize) have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their properties realistically, quickly and efficiently.

"GPU-Powered Semi Simulation Snags Coveted Research Award"
NVIDIA, November 22, 2019
Researchers tapped GPUs in the world’s most powerful supercomputer to set a record simulating current flows through a chip, snagging the 2019 ACM Gordon Bell prize, awarded at the SC19 supercomputing conference.

"How the Gordon Bell Prize Winners Used Summit to Illuminate Transistors"
HPCWire, November 22, 2019
At SC19, ACM awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, whose project, “A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab Initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations,” leveraged a new programming framework and the most powerful publicly ranked supercomputer to shine a light on the intricate behaviors of transistors.

"Behind the curtain of the 'ethical algorithm'"
Marketplace Morning Report, November 1, 2019
ACM Fellow Michael Kearns speaks about predictive algorithms on this business news show.

"Should Computer Science Be Required?"
Inside Higher Ed, October 28, 2019
2018 ACM Karlstrom Award recipient Robert Sedgewick says students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses at many institutions.

"Fox honored with prestigious ACM-IEEE Computer Society's Ken Kennedy Award"
Indiana University Bloomington, October 23, 2019
Geoffrey C. Fox was honored for foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, and data analysis, and their interfaces with broad classes of applications.

"Researchers Visualize Climate Change with AI-Generated Images"
VentureBeat, October 23, 2019
Research co-authored by Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, aims to establish a metric to quantify the veracity of synthetic climate change images.

"Hollywood is STILL sexist: Study reveals women spent half as much time on screen as men in films released in 2017 and 2018"
Daily Mail (UK), October 17, 2019
A research team from KAIST University in South Korea used an AI-trained computer to scan through the faces on screen in the nearly two dozen films. The study (to be presented at CSCW 2019) found not only a lack of screen time for women, but a lack of character depth to them.

"High energy: Facebook's AI guru LeCun imagines AI's next frontier"
ZDNet, October 17, 2019
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Yann LeCun believes unsupervised learning is key to acquiring intelligence as general as humans'.

"Hackers say they took over vote scanners like those coming to Georgia"
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 26, 2019
Jeremy Epstein, Vice Chair of ACM's US Tech Policy Committee, says the DEF CON report highlights the need for strong audits of paper ballots, as well as physical security of voting equipment.

"What Is the Future of Hadoop?"
ITPro Today, September 24, 2019
Article on Hadoop mentions ACM SIGKDD Treasurer Michael Zeller.

"Google expands Wi-Fi and adds toll-free Google Assistant line in India"
ZDNet, September 20, 2019
New Google Research India Lab will be led by ACM Fellow Manish Gupta.

"AI Learns to Defy Laws of Physics to Win at Hide-and-Seek"
New Scientist, September 17, 2019
The bots learned that cooperation—like passing objects to each other or co-building a hideout—was the quickest way to win. Said Chelsea Finn at Stanford University, 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient, “The main limitation of this kind of work is that it is in simulation.”

"Computing clubs collaborate to code for social good"
The Flat Hat (College of William and Mary), September 16, 2019
The College of William and Mary’s Society of Women in Computing, ACM and the Google Developer’s Club are partnering on CS + Social Good, a new project that's part of a national movement involving chapters at other universities.

"The 10 most important moments in AI (so far)"
Fast Company, September 16, 2019
AI timeline features ACM award recipients including Jeff Dean and Geoffrey Hinton.

"States Boost Computer Science Education Efforts"
U.S. News & World Report, September 11, 2019
A study by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance found that only 45% of US high schools offer classes in computer science, and that girls and minorities are underrepresented in those classes.

"Objects Can Now Change Colors Like a Chameleon"
MIT News, September 10, 2019
Said MIT’s Stefanie Mueller, "By giving users the autonomy to individualize their items, countless resources could be preserved, and the opportunities to creatively change your favorite possessions are boundless." Mueller received a 2017 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention.

"Shanghai's AI policies open doors for firms"
China Daily, August 28, 2019
1994 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Raj Reddy invited to speak at World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

"Ask the Know-It-Alls: How Do Machines Learn?"
Wired, August 26, 2019
Around 2012, the small community still working on the neural network approach to machine learning showed groundbreaking new results on speech and image recognition. This year, three researchers who brought about that revolution won the Turing Award, the Nobel Prize in computing.

"Cerebras CEO talks about the big implications for machine learning in company’s big chip"
ZDNet, August 21, 2019
ACM A.M Turing Award 2018 recipients Hinton, Bengio and LeCun cited for their work in deep learning.

"How to Join the Applied AI Revolution"
Forbes, August 16, 2019
ACM A.M Turing Award 2018 recipients’ contributions are responsible for some of the modern conveniences you might have started taking for granted, like Siri, Cortana or Alexa.

"Trilce Estrada Wins 2019 ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award"
Inside HPC, August 15, 2019
University of New Mexico researcher Trilce Estrada received the award for "deployment of machine learning for knowledge discovery in molecular dynamic simulations and in situ analytics."

”ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science 2019 Fellowships Announced"
HPCwire, August 7, 2019
The ACM Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has named six students to receive this year's ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships.

"World's First Sound Projector Targets Willing Individuals"
The Engineer (UK), August 5, 2019
Gianluca Memoli and colleagues at Sussex University demonstrated a sound projector they devised at SIGGRAPH 2019.

Xia Zhou Wins Award for Research and Outreach"
Dartmouth University, August 5, 2019
Dartmouth associate professor Xia Zhou studies mobile systems and wireless networking, with a focus on how light can be used as a medium for data communication and behavioral sensing. She is a recipient of ACM SIGMOBILE’s RockStar Award.

"How $1bn from Microsoft could help to mimic the brain"
Irish Times, August 1, 2019
"It's too big a problem,” says 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Geoffrey Hinton of the race to acquire artificial general intelligence. “I’d much rather focus on something where you can figure out how you might solve it.”

"Northeastern University Launches National Program to Boost Number of Women Majoring in Computing"
Northeastern University, July 31, 2019
An advisory council will guide the overarching strategy and direction of Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, and will include leaders on increasing the number of women in technology such as ACM-W Chair Jodi Tims.

"To Save the Internet, Silicon Valley Is Sending It to Space"
Discover, July 30, 2019
"I think mobile apps that need to transfer data in 'spotty' connectivity would benefit from the Bundle Protocol's patience," says former ACM President and 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Vint Cerf.

"With $1 Billion from Microsoft, an AI Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain"
The New York Times, July 23, 2019
Said Geoffrey Hinton, a Google researcher and co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, “It's too big a problem. I'd much rather focus on something where you can figure out how you might solve it.”

"Utah County to Pilot Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting"
Computerworld, July 23, 2019
A recent report by ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee observed that until there is a fundamental technological breakthrough in Internet security, the best method of protecting election integrity remains mailed paper ballots.

"Researchers collaborate on method to explain 'fake news' to users"
TechXplore, July 18, 2019
Penn State and Arizona State researchers working to help explain why any piece of fake news is detected as being false present their findings at KDD 2019.

"Experts discuss pressing data science problems and solutions"
TechTarget, July 2019
Working with messy data and software engineering are two of the biggest data science problems that come into play when building more robust AI systems, said experts at the ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science in San Francisco.

"Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93"
The New York Times, July 12, 2019
Fernando Corbató, who received the 1990 ACM A.M. Turing Award, died on Friday at the age of 93.

"The AI Technique that Could Imbue Machines with the Ability to Reason"
Technology Review, July 12, 2019
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Facebook, a professor at New York University and 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient, suggested during a recent ACM webinar that the deep learning subcategory known as unsupervised learning could help the technology overcome this hurdle.

"How Etsy taught style to an algorithm"
Fast Company, July 11, 2019
Algorithm that taught Etsy styles presented at KDD 2019.

" Stephen Cook's pioneering career in computational complexity"
University of Toronto, July 5, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Cook tackles the P vs. NP problem.

"Gelenbe Decreed a Commander of the National Order of Merit of France"
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, July 3, 2019
Erol Gelenbe, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, London, an ACM Fellow, and recipient of the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in 2008, was awarded the insignia of the Commander of the National Order of Merit of France.

"Angelika Amon and Dina Katabi named Carnegie Corporation ‘Great Immigrants’"
MIT News, July 2, 2019
MIT professors Amon and Katabi were named to the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 2019 list of Great Immigrants, Great Americans. Katabi has also received a MacArthur Fellowship, the ACM Prize in Computing, and the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, among other honors.

"Speech Technology and Synthesis with Leigh Clark and Benjamin R. Cowan"
Irish Tech News, June 28, 2019
New speech recognition research presented at CHI 2019.

"Researchers make steps toward debugging tools for quantum computers"
PhysOrg, June 21, 2019
Princeton researchers present tools for debugging quantum computers at ISCA 2019.

"Multi-mobile (M2) Computing System Makes Android, iOS Apps Sharable on Multiple Devices"
Columbia Engineering, June 20, 2019
Researchers present new computing system that enables current, unmodified mobile apps to combine and share multiple devices across multiple smartphones and tablets at MobiSys 2019.

"National Emergency Alerts Potentially Vulnerable to Attack"
University of Colorado Boulder, June 20, 2019
Researchers share discovery that emergency text alerts authorized by the US president can, theoretically, be spoofed, at MobiSys 2019.

"3rd AI for Good Global Summit gives rise to ‘AI Commons’"
Biz Today, June 7, 2019
ACM is partner in this conference, which shone a spotlight on AI projects in fields including education, healthcare and wellbeing, social and economic equality, space research, and smart and safe mobility.

"MIT MediaLab Develops Cyborg Botany"
engineering.com, June 6, 2019
MIT team debuts cyborg botany project at CHI 2019.

"Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics"
infoQ, June 5, 2019
The 2018 rewrite of the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct has brought it up-to-date with new technologies and societal demands.

"Russia hacked us: We made it far too easy—and still do"
The Hill, May 29, 2019
"My fellow computer scientists and I are generally not this emphatic, but we have long publicly warned that any forms of voting online, particularly by email, are vulnerable to undetectable attack," writes ACM US Technology Policy Committee Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein.

"Computing professionals: Leave internet connectivity out of voting machine guidelines"
Politico, May 29, 2019
ACM US Technology Policy Committee asks US Election Assistance Commission to prohibit internet connections from all voting equipment under an updated set of voluntary guidelines.

"Facebook's Robotic Arms, Legs Are Learning Faster Than Ever"
Bloomberg, May 20, 2019
Facebook chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, a 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient, said the company’s researchers have a responsibility to “see around corners” to where technology might be heading.

"Five Outstanding Innovators Under Age 40 Honored at Design Automation Conference "
Design Automation Conference, May 16, 2019
The 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC) and its sponsors, including ACM, have announced the five recipients of this year’s Under-40 Innovators Award.

"W&M Computing Mentorship for Girls Wins Global Service Award for Second Year in a Row"
William & Mary, May 15, 2019
The College of William & Mary's Society of Women in Computing was named recipient of the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Community Service.

"Tech-Savvy People More Likely to Accept Robot Doctors: Study"
Daily Hunt (India), May 13, 2019
Study presented at CHI 2019 recruited participants from online workforce Amazon Mechanical Turk to gain better understanding of user psychology behind the acceptance of automation in clinics.

"Advances in AI-enabled language translation hold special promise for the developing world"
ITU News, May 9, 2019
ACM CEO Vicki Hanson discusses the promise of deep learning after Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun received ACM's A.M. Turing Award for their contributions to machine learning using deep neural networks.

"MIT’s Daskalakis Awarded 2018 Grace Murray Hopper Award by Academic Peers"
The National Herald, May 9, 2019
ACM honors Constantinos Daskalakis and Princeton's Michael J. Freedman with Grace Murray Hopper Award.

"President Pavlopoulos congratulates Prof. Daskalakis on winning ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award"
AMNA (Greece), May 9, 2019

"UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Professor Pavel Pevzner Receives ACM’s Paris Kanellakis Award"
UC San Diego, May 8, 2019
Pevzner receives award recognizing theoretical work that significantly advances computing.

"Better email automation"
Mirage News, April 29, 2019
MIT team to present new open-source tool that lets users write, test, and hone simple Python scripts for controlling incoming emails at CHI 2019.

"IIT professor, Microsoft scientist bag awards for contributions for linking computing to society"
Hindu Business Line (India), April 24, 2019
ACM Lawler Award recipient Meenakshi Balakrishnan and ACM Distinguished Service recipient Victor Bahl lauded for their contributions.

"Sedgewick recognized for contribution to computer science education"
Princeton University, April 24, 2019
Robert Sedgewick, founding Chair of Computer Science at Princeton, is the recipient of ACM’s 2018 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.

"How AI could save the environment"
TechRepublic, April 19, 2019
ACM member Bistra Dilkina says environmental problems typically involve complex processes that scientists do not yet fully understand.

"Francine Berman Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences"
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 17, 2019
Berman in 2009 was the inaugural recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award and is an ACM Fellow.

"The Power Platform Movement"
This Week in Enterprise Tech, April 12, 2019
Podcast features Mendel Rosenblum, researcher who came up with modern virtualization and recipient of first ACM Charles Thacker Breakthrough Award.

"Inaugural ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough Award"
iProgrammer, April 11, 2019
Mendel Rosenblum honored with award intended to recognize individuals with the same out-of-the-box thinking and “can-do” approach to solving the unsolved that Thacker exhibited.

"How the EU's AI ethics guidelines will impact US businesses"
TechRepublic, April 9, 2019
ACM US Technology Policy Committee members see EU guidelines as a constructive first step toward understanding of AI's potential and pitfalls.

"Study Awarded Top Paper of Past 50 Years"
The Daily Illini, March 29, 2019
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) cited research by scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of California, San Diego, and Northern Iowa University as the top paper of the past 50 years at its Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2019.

"Computer Science Has Genuine Rock Star: Xia Zhou"
Dartmouth News, March 25, 2019
Dartmouth College's Xia Zhou has been awarded ACM SIGMOBILE's RockStar Award.

"Stanford University Launches Institute for Human-Centered AI"
Stanford News, March 18, 2019
The Institute will be co-directed by Fei-Fei Li, who presented an ACM webinar in 2017; Jeff Dean, co-recipient of the 2012 ACM Prize in Computing, will serve on its advisory council.

"The Autocrat's New Tool Kit"
The Wall Street Journal (requires subscription), March 15, 2019
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio is concerned the growing use of technology for political control amounts to “the 1984 Big Brother Scenario. I think it’s becoming more and more scary.”

"At Age 30, World Wide Web Is 'Not the Web We Wanted'"
Associated Press, March 12, 2019
Father of the World Wide Web and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee took the occasion of his invention's 30-year anniversary to discuss how its intended purpose has come up short, from a space for progress-oriented collaboration to a place saturated with intrusive surveillance, disinformation, and corporate control.

"Closing the Gender Gap in the Tech Industry"
60 Minutes, March 3, 2019
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi says tech gender gap has worsened in recent years, and he partly blames it on the fact that many attempts to recruit women, usually in high school or college, start too late. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Government and IT Industry-Funded AI Graduate Education Program to be Rolled Out Across U.K."
ComputerWeekly.com, February 21, 2019
University of Southampton professor (and former ACM president) Dame Wendy Hall says new initiatives will provide a way for students to develop AI skills and talent, while industry, universities, and others who aspire to be part of putting the UK at the forefront of the AI and data revolution should get involved with the effort.

"Gordon Bell Prize Highlights the Impact of AI"
Inside HPC, February 14, 2019
ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipients’ contributions highlighted.

"Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing"
UCBerkeley RISELab, February 10, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award winner David Patterson and colleagues release paper as follow-up to seminal paper on cloud computing.

"Stephen Ibaraki's Top Four Resources Spotlighting AI"
Forbes, February 8, 2019
ACM appears as #3 on this list; Learning Center cited.

"How to decide if a data science degree is worth it, and choose the right program"
Tech Republic, February 7, 2019
Co-Chair of ACM’s Data Science Task Force says that “colleges and universities are beginning to understand the need for data scientists, and are beginning to develop programs.”

"Developing a Moral Compass from Human Texts"
TU Darmstadt, February 7, 2019
TU Darmstadt researchers showed that artificial intelligence machines can learn a moral compass from humans at AIES 2019.

"Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl Believes to Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Researchers Should Teach Them Cause & Effect"
Analytics India, January 31, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Judea Pearl argues that AI has been hampered by an incomplete understanding of what intelligence really is.

"Boston University researchers develop framework to improve AI fairness"
VentureBeat, January 30, 2019
Research presented by Boston University scientists at ACM-FAT* 2019 shows just how hard it is to evaluate fairness in AI algorithms and tries to establish a framework for detecting and mitigating problematic behavior in automated decisions.

"China’s Social Credit System Won’t Tell You What You Can Do Right"
TechCrunch, January 28, 2019
Research on China’s Social Credit System unveiled at ACM FAT* 2019 conference.

"Embedding Ethics in Computer Science Curriculum"
The Harvard Gazette, January 25, 2019
Harvard's Barbara Grosz (ACM Fellow and ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient) and collaborators have devised a model that taps the expertise of the philosophy department and integrates it into more than 12 CS courses.

"Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology that a Study Says Could Be Biased "
The New York Times, January 24, 2019
Study on facial recognition technology presented at AIES 2019 reveals potential bias.

"The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class"
The New York Times, January 24, 2019
ACM Fellow Tracy Camp, head of Colorado School of Mines CS Department, was determined not to put in deterrents like capping the major. Instead, she said, class sizes had sharply increased.

"Michael Stonebraker to Deliver Opening Keynote at Data Summit 2019 in Boston"
Database Trends and Applications, January 23, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate and database technology pioneer Michael Stonebraker will deliver talk, “Big Data, Technological Disruption, and the 800-Pound Gorilla in the Corner,” at Data Summit 2019.

"MIT Professor: Blockchain Technology Could Create Borderless Economies"
CryptoGlobe, January 22, 2019
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Silvio Micali says blockchain technology's scalability and decentralization could help facilitate borderless business transactions.

"Innovative Business Foundation Organizes Masters of Abstraction Gala Dinner & Scientific Programme"
World Executives Digest, January 21, 2019
Five laureates of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing and Fields Medal met young scientists in Hong Kong for the first time.

"Levchin Prize Names Winners at the 2019 Real-World Crypto Conference"
Business Wire, January 9, 2019
Mihir Bellare, recipient of ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, receives Levchin Prize.

 

"Spotting Faces in the Crowd "
University of Delaware, December 18, 2018
Research team scored first place in Group-level Emotion Recognition sub-challenge of the 6th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018) with algorithm that accurately classified people in a set of images as happy, neutral, or negative.

"Google to Open Artificial Intelligence Lab in Princeton"
Princeton University, December 18, 2018
Princeton CS Department Chair and ACM Athena Lecturer and Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Jennifer Rexford says new venture comes at a time of significant growth in computer science and related areas of data science at Princeton.

"Report: Women and Minorities Continue to be Underrepresented in Computer Science"
Diverse Education, December 17, 2018
New report from ACM Education Board’s Retention Committee outlines successful interventions to encourage more women and minority students to pursue the computer sciences major and continue in the field post-graduation.

"Gnat-Sized Systems Turn Swarms of Bugs into Sensor Networks"
GeekWire, December 11, 2018
University of Washington researchers pack environmental sensors into a backpack small enough for a bumblebee to carry; they laid out their findings online, in advance of MobiCom 2019.

"Report: Data Challenges and Retention Offer Barriers to Equity in CS Education"
Campus Technology, December 10, 2018
ACM report, "Retention in Computer Science Undergraduate Programs in the U.S.: Data Challenges and Promising Interventions,” addresses lack of diversity in tech fields.

"Accenture Brings Hour of Code Tutorial Into 15 Languages"
CNet , December 3, 2018
As part of Computer Science Education Week, Accenture is translating its Hour of Code coding tutorial into 15 different languages. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Microsoft Pledges $10M to Code.org to Expand Computer Education"
CNet, December 3, 2018
Microsoft has committed to providing $10 million to Code.org by 2020. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"ACM Report Outlines Challenges, Promising Interventions to Improve Engagement, Retention of Students "
HPCwire, December 3, 2018
Said ACM Education Board Retention Committee's Chris Stephenson, "Retention in college computing programs is foundational because if we are not attracting and retaining a diverse population of students in computer science programs during the students' academic careers, we will not see a diverse workforce in computing emerge." Read the report.

"Automated Technique for Anime Colorization Using Deep Learning"
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, November 28, 2018
Researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, IMAGICA GROUP, and OLM Digital in Japan present technique for automatic colorization in anime production at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018. https://sa2018.siggraph.org/en

"Reproducing Paintings that Make an Impression"
MIT News, November 29, 2018
RePaint, system that combines deep learning and three-dimensional (3D) printing into a system that reproduces paintings, to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.

"Study: Smart Speakers Make Passive Listeners"
Cornell Chronicle, November 27, 2018
Study presented at RecSys 2018 finds people who read choices online digested information nine times faster and explored at least three times as much as those who heard them listed by “smart” assistants such as Siri and Alexa.

"Research Teams Use Summit Supercomputer to Win Gordon Bell Prize"
Computer Business Review, November 20, 2018
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory joint recipients of ACM's Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding work in computer science.

"They Email Ballots, Don’t They?"
The Security Ledger, November 16, 2018
ACM US Tech Policy Committee Vice Chair Jeremy Epstein discusses e-voting.

"Subtle Visual Cues Nudge Users to Reveal More in Online Forums"
Penn State News, November 6, 2018
Pennsylvania State University researchers found people using an online sexual health forum featuring computer graphics suggesting crowd size and linkage revealed more sensitive information about themselves than visitors to a site lacking such visual cues. They presented their work at CSCW 2018.

"Is an Internet Bill of Rights Necessary?"
Information Week, November 4, 2018
“Now is the time for Congress to act to protect the public interest and the integrity of the democratic process by adopting comprehensive and effective personal privacy protection legislation," said James Hendler, chair of ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee.

"Adve's Research Recognized with Kennedy Award"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 31, 2018
ACM, IEEE Computer Society name University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Sarita Adve recipient of 2018 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award.

"New Tool Streamlines the Creation of Moving Pictures"
Princeton University, October 24, 2018
Tool designed to simplify image animation presented at UIST 2018.

"New Technology Can Encode, Process Video Faster"
Jacobs School of Engineering (UCSD), October 23, 2018
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a system for encoding, transforming, and editing video several orders of magnitude faster than the current state of the art, and presented it at SoCC 2018.

"Efforts to Acknowledge the Risks of New AI Technology"
The New York Times, October 22, 2018
ACM Future of Computing Academy calls on research community to reconsider how it shares new AI technology by specifying its potentially negative societal impacts as well as its benefits.

"A Tech Investor Brought Cellphone Voting to West Virginia, Igniting Debate About Access and Security"
ABC News, October 19, 2018
Jeremy Epstein, vice chair of the ACM US Technology Policy Committee, said of Voatz, “They've done nothing to demonstrate in a public way why it's been secure.”

"Sitaraman Receives Computer Networking Systems Award"
UMass Amherst News, October 18, 2018
University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ramesh Sitaraman is part of a large team recently honored with the ACM SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award.

"3D Printers Have Fingerprints, a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns, Counterfeit Goods"
UB News Center, October 16, 2018
University at Buffalo researchers presented the first accurate technique for tracing a 3D-printed object to the machine that produced it, at CCS 2018.

"ISTE Releases First-Ever Multi-Disciplinary K-12 STEM Guidelines"
EdScoop, October 15, 2018
Standards jointly developed by ISTE Code.org, and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) set up behaviors and roles for educators, including as learners, leaders, collaborators, designers, and facilitators in the classroom. ACM is a partner of Code.org and founded CSTA.

"Two Systems Allow Smart Devices to Have Environmental Awareness"
Electronics360, October 15, 2018
Ubicoustics and Vibrosight systems developed by Carnegie Mellon researchers presented at UIST 2018.

"Felten confirmed as member of U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board"
Princeton University, October 12, 2018
Former USACM chair Ed Felten confirmed by Senate to PCLOB, the five-person board established at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and charged with evaluating and advising on executive branch anti-terrorism measures with respect to privacy and civil liberties.

"Researchers Break Exaop Barrier with Deep Learning Application"
HPC Wire, October 8, 2018
Researchers’ exascale-class deep learning application, which has broken the exaop barrier, earned the team a spot on this year's list of finalists for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which will be awarded at SC18.

"Just 36 Teachers Across U.S. Graduated in 2016 Ready to Teach CS"
THE Journal, October 8, 2018
US universities graduated only 36 new teachers prepared to teach computer science in 2016, and only 35% of U.S. high schools teach the subject, according to a joint Code.org Advocacy Coalition/Computer Science Teachers Association report. ACM is a partner in Code.org and founded CSTA.

Coverage of Internet Voting Report (released by ACM with Common Cause and other groups):
Fast Company
The Hill
McClatchy News
Politico
NextGov.com

"Social Media Data Used to Predict Retail Failure"
University of Cambridge (UK), October 9, 2018
Research team’s model based on social media and transport data can predict with 80% accuracy whether a new business will fail within six months. Their findings will be presented at Ubicomp 2018.

"Researchers Develop 3D Printed Objects that Can Track and Store How They Are Used"
UW News, October 9, 2018
University of Washington researchers to present 3D printed device that tracks and stores its own utilization without batteries or electronics at UIST 2018.

"Computer Scientists Receive $1.7 Million Grant to Make Chip Design Easier"
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences, October 2, 2018
Researchers at University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and Texas State University awarded $5 million by DARPA to spark next wave of semiconductor innovation and circuit design In US. ACM Fellow Keshav Pingali is leading the UT team.

"Governing the Next Technological Revolution"
Council on Foreign Relations, October 2, 2018
ACM partnered with International Telecommunications Union, XPRIZE to hold two AI for Good global summits.

"What Your CEO Is Reading: Team Building; Moon Corp.; Constructive Cursing"
Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2018
Alphabet chairman and ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate John L. Hennessy discusses effective team-building in his new book.

"State-Level Policy for Computer Science Education Continues to Grow"
EdScoop, September 28, 2018
A report by Code.org found many US states are aggressively implementing policies in support of computer science education across K-12 curricula. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"USC Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Graduate Receives Prestigious Award"
USC Viterbi School of Engineering, September 19, 2018
Longbo Huang of Tsinghua University in China has received the 2018 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award, which recognizes a junior researcher who demonstrates outstanding potential for computer and communication performance research.

"Patterson Says It's Time for New Computer Architectures, Software Languages"
IEEE Spectrum, September 17, 2018
UC Berkely professor and former ACM President David Patterson says Moore's Law is over and computer architecture is on the cusp of a new era.

"33 Laureates of Mathematics and Computer Science Heading to Heidelberg!"
Scienmag, September 18, 2018
ACM Turing Award laureates among luminaries participating in Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

"Shapely Bell Curve: NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core GPUs Power 5 of 6 Gordon Bell Finalists"
cnarena, September 17, 2018
Gordon Bell Prize finalists announced.

"Hate Speech-Detecting AIs Are Fools for 'Love'"
Aalto University, September 14, 2018
Research on weaknesses in many machine learning detectors that identify hate speech to be presented at ACM AISec Workshop.

"Dongarra Awarded 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering"
Inside HPC, September 7, 2018
2013 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award recipient Jack Dongarra to receive honor at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) in February.

"Does Technology Really Enhance Our Decision-Making Ability?"
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, September 7, 2018
Paper on recommender systems wins award at User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Conference (UMAP 2018).

"Code.Org, CSTA Get Extra Computer Science Courses through New Partnership"
EdScoop, September 6, 2018
Code.org and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) have partnered with Pluralsight, an enterprise technology learning platform, to expand their course offerings. ACM is a partner in Code.org and a founder of CSTA.

"Computation Web App Wins Award"
Techwire, September 6, 2018
The Jupyter open-source Web application, which won the 2017 ACM Software System Award, is expanding, with funding from various sources.

"Leaks, petitions and tweets: How tech workers are starting to revolt"
NBC News, September 5, 2018
“I think it took a while for those of us who are computing professionals to lift our heads far enough above what we’re doing… to look at how our technologies are being applied or misapplied,” said ACM President Cherri Pancake. She also mentioned the updated ACM Code of Ethics.

"Florida Professor Leads Effort to Aid Black Comp-Sci PhD Students"
Diverse Education, August 30, 2018
University of Florida's Juan E. Gilbert (former Coalition to Diversify Computing Chair) is principal investigator for NSF-funded program to help schools recruit and retain African-American doctoral students in computer science via the auspices of the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computer Science.

"Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code"
The Guardian (UK), August 29, 2018
ACM Fellow and former USACM Chair Gene Spafford notes that ACM has updated its Code of Ethics along the lines of medicine’s Hippocratic oath, to instruct computing professionals to do no harm and consider the wider impacts of their work.

"Engineering Students Hit the Streets in NYC; Develop App to Benefit Homeless Outreach"
University of Kentucky, August 27, 2018
ACM-W Student Chapter at University of Kentucky helps with homeless outreach in New York City.

"Female, Minority Students Took AP Computer Science in Record Numbers"
USA Today, August 27, 2018
“Our society is rewriting every industry using computer science, and we shouldn’t limit participation in that only to a lucky few,” says Code.org founder and CEO Hadi Partovi. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer"
Indian Strategic Studies, August 22, 2018
Newly-updated ACM Code of Ethics cited.

"New MIT technology tracks objects inside the human body wirelessly"
Digit, August 21, 2018
Technology that tracks objects inside the human body wirelessly presented at SIGCOMM 2018.

"This wireless system can track tumours, help dispense drugs"
Babushahi, August 21, 2018
Wireless system that tracks tumors/dispenses drugs presented at SIGCOMM 2018.

"New guidelines issued by the Association for Computing Machinery are the first significant upgrade since 1992"
FileHippo, August 20, 2018
New ACM Code of Ethics for computing professionals released to help technologists deal with the fact that their actions can have a larger impact on the modern world now more than ever.

"Knuth Prize Awarded for Contributions to Computational Complexity"
i-Programmer, August 17, 2018
Johan Torkel Håstad named 2018 recipient of Knuth Prize sponsored by ACM SIGACT and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing.

"ShareBackup Could Keep Data in the Fast Lane"
Rice University, August 16, 2018
Rice University researchers present method to keep data moving quickly when failures in computer networks occur at SIGCOMM 2018.

"NVIDIA CEO Takes Center Stage at SIGGRAPH 2018"
Digital Engineering, August 2018
SIGGRAPH 2018 marks its 45th annual conference.

"New Interactive Machine Learning Tool Makes Car Designs More Aerodynamic"
IST Austria, August 14, 2018
Software that uses machine learning to compute model flow around interactively designable three-dimensional objects presented at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"Programmers need ethics when designing the technologies that influence people's lives"
The Conversation, August 8, 2018
ACM President Cherri Pancake discusses ACM's updated Code of Ethics and other steps ACM is taking to help technologists engage with ethical questions.

"How a Computer Learns to Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice"
Carnegie Mellon University, August 7, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University and DeepMotion researchers to present physics-based, real-time method for controlling animated characters that can learn basketball dribbling skills from experience, at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"New ACM Breakthrough In Computing Award"
i-Programmer, August 7, 2018
ACM has created a new major award for a surprising or disruptive leapfrog in computing ideas or technologies. Named to honor Charles P. "Chuck” Thacker it carries a prize of $100,000 and is intended to be biennial.

"Greek Mathematician Constantinos Daskalakis Wins Prestigious Award"
Greek Reporter, August 2, 2018
MIT professor and 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient Constantinos Daskalakis to receive this year’s Rolf Nevanlinna Prize.

"CSAIL Launches New Initiative for Financial Technology"
MIT News, July 26, 2018
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory launched a research-industry collaboration focused on creating financial technologies. MIT’s Andrew Lo is co-leading the new initiative along with Silvio Micali and Shafi Goldwasser, co-recipients of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

"Educators Explore How to Bring Computer Science Learning to All Students"
Cornell Chronicle, July 24, 2018
CS Visions is a two-year project led by the CSforAll Consortium and New York University. ACM supports the CSforAll initiative.

"ACM Updates Code of Ethics for Computer Pros"
Information Week, July 24, 2018
Among the goals of ACM’s newly updated Code of Ethics is to give ACM members and other computing professionals something to take to their employers if they are faced with an ethical dilemma.

"Microsoft Breaks Down How to Run an Ethical IT Shop"
PC Magazine (UK), July 18, 2018
ACM’s updated Code of Ethics mentioned alongside Microsoft’s advocacy for ethics around facial recognition technology.

"ACM updates computing ethics code for first time in 26 years, here's what's new"
Tech Republic, July 17, 2018
ACM updates computing ethics code for first time in 26 years--here's what's new.

"New Ethics Code Urges Tech Firms and Coders to Avoid Harming Society"
Xconomy, July 17, 2018
“Code is involved in every aspect of your life,” says Don Gotterbarn, who led ACM's effort to formulate a longer and more detailed set of principles for computer professionals in its updated Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

"Exclusive interview series with laureates of mathematics and computer science"
IDW (Germany), July 9, 2018
Profile of ACM Prize Recipient Jeff Dean in article about this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

"Microsoft to Invest $2M in Computer Science Teachers Association"
EdScoop, July 9, 2018
Microsoft Philanthropies is donating $2 million in funding over the next three years to the Computer Science Teachers Association (CTSA), which was founded by ACM in 2004.

"New Optimization Algorithm Exponentially Speeds Computation"
IEEE Spectrum, July 5, 2018
Harvard University researchers’ algorithm that solves optimization problems exponentially faster than previous algorithms by cutting the number of steps required presented at STOC 2018.

"German researchers can evade printer security dots"
The Recycler, July 5, 2018
German research team presents technique to circumvent printer security at 6th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security.

"LUMS Computer Science chair’s research to be presented at ACM SIGCOMM"
Pakistan Today, July 5, 2018
Lahore University of Management Sciences Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science Ihsan Ayyub Qazi's research, named a "Best Paper," to be presented at SIGCOMM 2018.

"Can Markov Logic Take Machine Learning to the Next Level?"
datanami, July 3, 2018
Pedro Domingos delivers keynote address at SIGMOD/PODS 2018.

"SIGGRAPH 2018 to Debut Immersive Pavilion with Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Projects"
AiThority, July 2, 2018
45th SIGGRAPH 2018 conference will take place August 12 to 16 in Vancouver.

"Computer graphics research team to present new tool for sketching faces"
Science Daily, July 2, 2018
Researchers will present sketch-based editing framework that enables users to edit their photos by sketching a few strokes on top of them, at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"Grace Hopper Computing Conference Looks to Bring More Attention to Women of Color"
TechCrunch, June 28, 2018
PitcHER contest will bring leading women entrepreneurs to the Grace Hopper Celebration in September.

"Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021"
IEEE Spectrum, June 28, 2018
"It will be the largest Arm system in the world and in fact, likely the largest supercomputer in the world," says RIKEN's Satoshi Matsuoka, recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2011.

"A New Direction for HPC Math Libraries"
The Next Platform, June 27, 2018
The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra, an ACM fellow and recipient of the 2013 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award, recently presented a new direction for math libraries at the International Supercomputing conference in Germany.

"Project Jupyter Steering Council Receives 2017 ACM Software System Award"
Tech at Bloomberg, June 26, 2018
2017 ACM Software System Award recipients quoted.

"Lee Kuan Yew’s grandson, Li Shengwu, wins Best Paper Award at the prestigious ACM Conference in New York"
The Independent (Singapore), June 23, 2018
Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s grandson Li Shengwu won the prestigious Best Paper Award at the ACM EC’18 Conference on Economics and Computing.

"Vint Cerf Gives Rx for IoT"
EE Times, June 22, 2018
Former ACM President and Turing Award recipient says Internet of Things won’t live up to its promise unless engineers redouble their efforts to develop high-quality, secure, and interoperable software.

"International Award for Strathclyde Computer Science Professor"
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 19, 2018
Andrew McGettrick, an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Strathclyde, is one of three 2018 awardees of the ACM Presidential Award.

"New Approach in VR Redirected Walking"
EurekAlert, June 18, 2018
Researchers will present computational system that redirects the user in the virtual environment during natural instances of "change blindness," with undetectable camera movements at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"Association for Computing Machinery elects Brazilian new board member"
Plantao News (Brazil), June 13, 2018
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros named an ACM board Member-at-Large.

"Deepfake Videos Are Getting Impossibly Good"
Gizmodo, June 12, 2018
Researchers will present an artificial intelligence-based system that uses input video to create photorealistic reanimations of portrait videos at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"A System Purely for Developing High-Performance, Big Data Codes"
Rice News, June 11, 2018
Rice University researchers will debut the PlinyCompute platform at SIGMOD 2018.

"RIT's Vicki Hanson Named CEO of World’s Largest Computing Association"
Stamford Advocate, June 8, 2018
Vicki Hanson is retiring from her position as Distinguished Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology to become ACM's Executive Director and CEO, effective July 1.

"Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer"
The New York Times, June 8, 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit system is expected to be named the world's fastest supercomputer in the Top500 rankings, effectively ending China's five-year reign at the top of the list, says University of Tennessee professor and ACM Fellow Jack Dongarra.

"Eggers Receives Eckert-Mauchly Award for Contributions to Computer Architecture"
University of Washington, June 5, 2018
Susan Eggers receives 2018 ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award at ISCA 2018.

"Your Reaction to Pics of Leonardo DiCaprio, Animals Could Unlock Your Next Smartphone"
University of Buffalo, June 5, 2018
Researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are developing a new type of password that "measures your brainwaves" in response to a series of pictures. The study will be presented at MobiSys 2018.

"Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body"
MIT News, June 4, 2018
MIT researchers have developed a wireless method for powering and communicating with devices implanted within the human body. They will present their work at SIGCOMM 2018.

"Walk This Way: Novel Method Enables Infinite Walking in VR"
EurekAlert, May 29, 2018
Team of computer scientists from Stony Brook University, Nvidia, and Adobe will present their work at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"Global Summit Generates 35 Pioneering Proposals Using Power of AI for Good"
BW CIO World (India), May 29, 2018
Thirty-five innovative project proposals leveraging the power of artificial intelligence for good were presented at the AI for Good Global Summit.

"Tech experts develop AI mobile app to better diagnose malaria, other diseases"
Graphic Online (Ghana), May 23, 2018
AI-powered mobile application to help diagnose conditions such as malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes developed by Ghanaian researcher was presented at AI for Good Global Summit.

"Autonomous Boats Could Service Some Cities, Reducing Road Traffic"
MIT News, May 23, 2018
"Imagine shifting some of infrastructure services that usually take place during the day on the road—deliveries, garbage management, waste management—to the middle of the night, on the water, using a fleet of autonomous boats," says MIT CSAIL's Daniela Rus, an ACM Fellow.

"Queen's University Student Has Key to Beating Insurance Fraud"
Belfast Telegraph (Ireland), May 15, 2018
Jiawen Sun placed second in an ACM Student Research Competition for developing software capable of rapidly sifting through large volumes of an organization's data and detecting insurance fraud.

"W&M Computing Mentorship for Girls Wins National Service Award"
William & Mary, May 10, 2018
The College of William & Mary ACM-W Student Chapter (also known as the Society of Women in Computing) has earned the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Community Service Award for its work engaging with middle school girls to encourage participation in computing.

"Navigation System Helps Autonomous Cars Tackle Country Roads"
R & D Magazine, May 7, 2018
"Our minimalist approach to mapping enables autonomous driving on country roads using local appearance and semantic features such as the presence of a parking spot or a side road," notes MIT professor and ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"Sensor Stickers Transform the Human Body Into a Multi-Touch Surface"
Saarland University, May 4, 2018
Researchers present new skin sensor allows interaction designers to produce skin-like, sensitive multi-touch sensors for any part of the body at CHI 2018.

"Pioneering Data Science tool—Jupyter—receives top software prize"
Berkeley News, May 2, 2018
ACM is recognizing an international team of researchers with the 2017 Software System Award for Project Jupyter, led by Fernando Perez at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Randles Wins 2017 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award"
Duke Pratt School of Engineering, May 2, 2018
Duke University professor Amanda Randles has been named the 2017 recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in recognition for her development of HARVEY, a massively parallel fluid dynamics simulation that can model the complete human arterial system at the subcellular level.

"Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices"
Carnegie Mellon University, April 25, 2018
CMU researchers present new web browser that brings order to complex searches in a way not possible with conventional tabbed browsing at CHI 2018.

"Andrea Goldsmith receives ACM Athena Lecturer Award"
Stanford News, April 18, 2018
Stanford University's Stephen Harris Professor and professor of electrical engineering Andrea Goldsmith recently received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award.

"Making Computer Animation More Agile, Acrobatic--and Realistic"
Berkeley News, April 10, 2018
University of California, Berkeley researchers plan to present algorithm that can learn a variety of different skills, and produce motions that rival if not surpass the state-of-the-art in animation with handcrafted controllers, at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"Social Isolation Tackled by Fribo Robot Connecting Real-Life Friends"
Tech Xplore, April 8, 2018
Korean researchers used a robot called Fribo to encourage social connectedness among people who live alone. They presented their work at HRI 2018.

"Science Fiction Inspires Real Technology"
Technology Review, April 5, 2018
University of Hawaii researchers contend sci-fi movies, shows, or stories provide an inspiration for the important human-computer interaction challenges of our time; their work will be presented at CHI 2018.

"Using Friends to Fight Online Harassment"
MIT News, April 5, 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers have developed "Squadbox," a crowdsourcing tool that lets victims of online harassment coordinate "squads" of friends to filter messages and support them during attacks; their work will be presented at CHI 2018.

"What People See in 157 Robot Faces"
IEEE Spectrum, April 3, 2018
University of Washington researchers presented study of how humans perceive robot faces at HRI 2018.

"Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3D Shapes"
Carnegie Mellon University, March 29, 2018
CMU researchers to present system that can produce toys and garments by translating 3D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions executed by a computer-controlled knitting machine, at SIGGRAPH 2018.

"UCR Researchers Take Up Fight Against Fake News"
UCR Today, March 26, 2018
University of California, Riverside researchers presented techniques that capture nuanced patterns that successfully identify different categories of fake news, without using any external knowledge about the validity of any particular article, at WSDM 2018.

"Robotic Tortoise Helps Kids to Learn That Robot Abuse Is a Bad Thing"
IEEE Spectrum, March 14, 2018
Researchers demonstrated how they used a tortoise-shaped robot to teach children not to abuse robots at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018).

"Careers in Computing Celebration Hosted by the Women’s Association of Computing Machinery at LYIT"
Careers and Education News, March 2018
Letterkenny Institute of Technology, in conjunction with ACM-W, hosted a two-day Celebration of Careers in Computing February 8-10.

"Glimmers of Hope for Women in the Male-Dominated Tech Industry"
Bloomberg, March 8, 2018
"The only way to meet the growing demand for people with knowledge and skills is to attract people who are not well-represented now, e.g., women and people of color," says Harvey Mudd College president and former ACM President Maria Klawe. ACM Distinguished Service Award recipient Ed Lazowska also quoted.

"For Blind Gamers, Equal Access to Racing Video Games"
Columbia Engineering, March 6, 2018
Student at Columbia University to present new system to help visually impaired play racing video games, at CHI 2018.

"Hacker Expo Offers Computer Science Students Chance to Present Projects"
Daily Bruin, March 2, 2018
Hacker Expo 2018, hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ACM chapter and the UCLA Tech + Innovation initiative at Carnesale Commons, showcased 25 programming projects completed by UCLA students.

"Well-Trained Cybersecurity Pros Needed to Fill 1.8 Million Open Jobs"
IT Security Guru, March 2, 2018
ACM and IEEE Computer Society release CSEC 2017, first set of global curricular recommendations in cybersecurity education.

"Submissions Open for ACM–IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship"
HPC Wire, February 28, 2018
Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is on high-performance computing applications, networking, storage, or large-scale data analysis. Nominations are due May 1.

"Star Wars Robots Like R2-D2, C3PO Could Help You in Real Life"
CNet, February 21, 2018
Texas A&M University professor and 2014 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award recipient Robin Murphy thinks robots such those featured in the "Star Wars" movies could have practical communicative applications.

"ISTE and Code.org Partner to Advance Computer Science Education"
EdScoop, February 14, 2018
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE, formerly the International Council for Computers in Education) and Code.org have formed a partnership to offer more opportunities for educators interested in teaching computer science. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It"
New York Times, February 12, 2018
“It’s about finding or identifying issues that we know...the students who graduate from here are going to have to grapple with,” said ACM Presidential Award recipient Mehran Sahami, who is helping to develop a computer science ethics course at Stanford University.

"Browser extension helps the visually impaired interpret online images"
TechXplore, February 12, 2018
ATLAS and Microsoft researchers’ system, which merges benefits of a fully automated system with the quality of human-authored content, to be presented at CHI 2018.

"This age-detecting algorithm can make your smartphone child-proof"
Zoom4India, February 12, 2018
Algorithm that can figure out if a child is swiping the screen and block apps that parents want to keep off-limits was presented at HotMobile 2018.

"Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter"
Carnegie Mellon News, February 7, 2018
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will present Evorus, a chatbot system that recruits crowd workers on demand from Amazon Mechanical Turk to answer questions from users, at CHI 2018.

"IIT-P team makes it to computer Olympics"
Times of India, February 3, 2018
Three students from IIT-Patna to compete in the ICPC World Finals.

"The 14 Biggest DC Tech Hires to Know about from January"
DCInno, January 31, 2018
Adam Eisgrau named as ACM’s global policy director.

"Nagpur to host the prestigious ACM India Annual Event 2018"
NewsDog, January 30, 2018
Flagship ACM India event February 15 to 17 will include ACM Turing Award winners and office bearers, researchers, and IT professionals from all over the world.

"This cool 3D-printing technology could change the colour of your phone case and jewellery"
International Business Times, January 29, 2018
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to present new technology at CHI 2018.

"Deep Learning Pioneered for Real-Time Gravitational Wave Discovery"
Space Daily, January 29, 2018
Work by researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications takes first place in ACM Student Research Competition at SC17.

"Researchers Propose Novel Solution to Better Secure Voice Over Internet Communication"
UAB News, January 26, 2018
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers presented a closed-captioning crypto phone to better protect from eavesdropping and other man-in-the-middle attacks, at CCS 2017.

"Tulane University presents panel discussion on artificial intelligence"
Tulane University, January 26, 2018
Discussion will be the opening program of AIES 2018, the inaugural conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society sponsored by ACM and AAAI.

"Dealing With HPC Correctness: Challenges and Opportunities"
HPCwire, January 25, 2018
Addressing these challenges was the focus of the US Department of Energy-funded HPC Correctness Summit and a workshop at SC17.

"Artificial Intelligence needs to be ever-changing"
Telengana Today, January 24, 2018
ACM and IIT Hyderabad Host AI Conference.

"U of I Researcher Recognized with ACM Fellowship for Contributions to Parallel Programming"
HPC Wire, January 23, 2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kale named a 2017 ACM Fellow.

"Connecting Computing Research with National Priorities"
CCC Blog, January 23, 2018
The US National Science Foundation's Jim Kurose (an ACM Fellow) talked about smart and connected communities and their benefits to their constituents, while citing the value of interdisciplinary research.

"ACM Recognizes Thomas Reps with Programming Languages Achievement Award"
Kasa.com, January 16, 2018
Thomas Reps receives ACM SIGPLAN award at POPL conference.

"Newly named leader of Computer Science Teachers Association says it's a crucial community"
Edscoop, January 11, 2018
Jake Baskin has devoted his entire adult life to computer science education.

"Ethics and Computing. Living Responsibly in a Computerized World. 2nd Edition"
Military Technologies, January 11, 2018
Book review mentions ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics.

"Two EA patents paint a worrying future for online matchmaking"
Kit Guru, January 9, 2018
ACM Digital Library mentioned in discussion of gaming patents.

"Calling Outstanding Young Researchers!"
AlphaGalileo, January 8, 2018
The application period for the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum will be coming to a close on February 9.

"Cybersecurity: Photos can be traced to individual smartphones"
Innovation Toronto, January 2018
“I think most people assumed you would need 50 images to identify a smartphone camera. But our research shows that’s not the case,” says ACM Distinguished Scientist Kui Ren.

"With the Summit Supercomputer, U.S. Could Retake Computing's Top Spot"
IEEE Spectrum, January 6, 2018
Sunway TaihuLight has a peak performance of 125 petaflops and helped Chinese researchers capture the 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work modeling atmospheric dynamics.

"It's Time to Weave Computational Thinking into K-12"
THE Journal, January 2, 2018
A new study from the nonprofit Digital Promise stresses the need for computational thinking to be integrated across K-12 school curriculums, citing an ACM description of computational thinking as "the thought process behind programming."

 

"CSUCI team shows computer savvy"
Camarillo Acorn, December 27, 2017
Cal State team advances in ICPC programming contest.

"Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2018"
Dataversity, December 26, 2017
Year-end wrapup mentions Tim Berners-Lee receiving 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

"How Many Gigs Are You Wearing?"
Scientific American, December 26, 2017
Wearable computing devices presented at MobiCom 2017.

"Researchers invent battery-free phone that never dies"
NewsDog, December 25, 2017
Batttery-free cellphone technology presented at MobiCom 2017.

"Time to honour Turing"
Waikato Business News, December 19, 2017
ACM recognized Alan Turing half a century ago with the ACM A. M. Turing Award and has now presented the award 50 times.

"Proof of randomness builds future of digital security"
Princeton University, December 21, 2017
Researchers at Princeton University say they have developed a technique for verifying the strength of random number generators on which most encryption systems are based. The presented their research at CCS 2017.

"Is Peer Review Fair When It Is Not Blinded?"
ACSH News, December 13, 2017
In co-chairing the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), a team of Google researchers studied whether blinded peer review of scientific literature upholds fairness.

"Computer Scientists Develop a Simple Tool to Tell if Websites Suffered a Data Breach"
University of California, San Diego, December 12, 2017
UCSD researchers say they can detect when websites are hacked via a new tool, Tripwire, which monitors the activity of email accounts associated with those sites. They presented Tripwire at IMC 2017.

"Four from MIT named 2017 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows"
MIT News, December 11, 2017
Honorees included School of Science Dean Michael Sipser and three researchers affiliated with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: Tomás Lozano-Pérez, and ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipients Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali.

"Three UC San Diego Computer Scientists Elected as ACM Fellows in Class of 2017"
UC San Diego, December 11, 2017

"2017 ACM Fellow list released: Yang Qiang, Ma Yi, Rui Yong and many other Chinese selected"
CNRead, December 12, 2017

"Familiar Face Returns to Provide Computing, Entrepreneurial Leadership"
University of Colorado Boulder, December 6, 2017
Past ACM CEO Bobby Schnabel named UC Boulder Campus Thought-leader on Computing, College of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty Director for Entrepreneurship, and External Chair of Computer Science.

"All about AI: Interview with Turing Award winner John Hopcroft"
EBL News, December 6, 2017
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Hopcroft talks about theoretical aspects of computing, especially the analysis of algorithms, automata theory and graph algorithms.

"Internet tech to help fix digital divide"
China SME Online, December 6, 2017
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Silvio Micali interviewed at World Internet Conference.

"Researchers 3D-Print WiFi-connected objects that don't need power"
Engadget, December 5, 2017
New way of having 3D printed objects connect to wi fi without electronics presented at SIGGRAPH Asia.

"Schools Dive In to Computer Science Education Week"
EdScoop, December 4, 2017
This year's Computer Science Education Week continues an ongoing effort to encourage K-12 students to engage with coding and computer science. The week is organized by Code.org, and ACM is a partner.

"What Goes Around Comes Around: A Brief History of Databases"
DZone, December 1, 2017
Fascinating paper about the cyclical history of data modeling was written by two database experts: Joseph Hellerstein, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley, and Michael Stonebraker, founder of Ingres and Postgres and winner of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

"The Mustafa Prize recognises work of Imperial engineer"
Imperial College London, December 1, 2017
ACM Fellow and pioneering engineer Erol Gelenbe will fly to Iran to collect one of the Islamic world's most prestigious science and engineering awards.

"Stanford-Led Artificial Intelligence Index Tracks Emerging Field"
Stanford News, November 30, 2017
A Stanford University-led team called the AI100 has launched the AI Index, the first index to track the state of artificial intelligence and measure technological progress in the same way the gross domestic product and the S&P 500 indices track the US economy and stock market. But Stanford professor and 2012 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient Yoav Shoham notes that a five-year-old's general intelligence remains beyond AI's capabilities.

"New Research Creates a Computer Chip That Emulates Human Cognition"
YaleNews, November 28, 2017
"To achieve the ambitious metrics of DARPA SyNAPSE, a key element was to design and implement event-driven circuits for which asynchronous circuits are natural," says IBM's Dharmendra Modha, a 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipient.

"Algorithms Can Determine a Neighborhood's Political Leanings by Its Cars"
Stanford News, November 28, 2017
Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li says the research "opens up more possibilities of virtually continuous study of our society using sometimes cheaply available visual data." Li was a panelist at ACM’s 50 Years of the Turing Award Celebration.

"More than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find"
The Register (UK), November 21, 2017
An international research team led by the University of California, Irvine found 70 percent of GitHub is composed of duplicate code, with only 85 million out of 428 million files unique. The researchers presented their work at SPLASH 2017.

"China Bags Second Gordon Bell Prize"
Asian Scientist, November 17, 2017
ACM Gordon Bell Prize winning Chinese team receives award at SC17.

"Chinese researchers win 'Nobel Prize' in supercomputing application"
China Daily, November 17, 2017
Chinese team wins 2017 ACM Gordon Bell Prize.

"Calling Outstanding Young Researchers"
AlphaGalileo, November 16, 2017
Nominations open for young researchers to participate in Heidelberg Laureate Forum; deadline February 9.

"Touch and Vibration May Be the Fingerprints of the Future"
Manus Dei, November 15, 2017
Biometric identification using touch and vibration presented at CCS 2017.

"'Troublemakers' follows the meteoric transformation of Silicon Valley’s founding generation"
Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 2017
Book review on the development of Silicon Valley mentions ACM A.M. Turing Award as “Nobel Prize in computer science.”

"Martonosi Sketches a Path for a New Type of Computing"
Princeton University, November 14, 2017
Princeton University professor Margaret Martonosi shared the 2017 ACM SenSys Test of Time award with Steve Lyon, Pei Zhang, and Chris Sadler.

"What Life Will Be Like When the Computers Disappear"
USA Today, November 13, 2017
Futurist Ray Kurzweil (an ACM Fellow and Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient) expects by the 2030s there will be health-regulating "devices that are as powerful as your cellphones today that are the size of blood cells."

"ACM-ICPC regional contest concludes "
Daily Asian Age, November 13, 2017
The University of Asia Pacific Computer Science and Engineering Department organized the final round of the 2017 ACM-ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest.

"Why Is the Number of Women in Computing so Low?"
Center for Digital Education, November 9, 2017
Jodi Tims, chair of ACM’s Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W), shares her opinion on the origins of, and possible solutions for, the low number of women in computing.

"Training for Artificial Intelligence in Warfare"
U.S. News & World Report, November 8, 2017
"The challenge is to make sure that [the responsible] person or organization is actually able to control and influence what might go wrong," says Princeton University professor and ACM Fellow Edward Felten.

"A 'Virtual Wall' That Improves Wireless Security and Performance"
Dartmouth College, November 8, 2017
Researchers at Dartmouth College use 3D printing to produce an inexpensive reflector that directs wireless signals to where users need them most. They presented their research at BuildSys 2017.

"Adversarial Machine Learning at ACM CCS’17"
Atman 360 (China), November, 2017
Keynote talk by UC Berkeley professor David Wagner introduces Adversarial Machine Learning to attendees at CCS 2017.

"ACM-ICPC: The team that put Cuba on the map of the world finals"
Rodexo (Spain), November 7, 2017
Cuban team vies for a spot in the ACM ICPC programming contest World Finals.

"Building AI that Can Build AI"
The New York Times, November 5, 2017
Scientists such as Google's Jeff Dean (who shared the 2012 ACM Prize in Computing with Sanjay Ghemawat) believe if more people and companies are working on AI it will drive their own research.

"The Disappearing American Grad Student"
The New York Times, November 3, 2017
Former ACM President Stu Zweben, Ed Lazowska (ACM Distinguished Service Award recipient), and Hadi Partovi (Code.org founder) on post-Bachelor’s education.

"Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery"
University of California, Merced, November 1, 2017
UC Merced researchers recently helped to make a major advance in astronomy, as scientists announced last month they observed two neutron stars colliding. The database techniques were first described in papers presented at SIGMOD/PODS 2016 and 2017.

"Students Explore Immigration Through a Big Data Lens"
Texas Advanced Computing Center, November 1, 2017
Students will learn how to use advanced computing skills to investigate U.S. immigration policies at SC17.

"Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren't)"
The New York Times, November 1, 2017
Edward Lazowska (recipient of the ACM Presidential Award for 2005 and the ACM Distinguished Service Award for 2009) analyzed US Bureau of Labor Statistics employment forecasts and found that in the decade ending in 2024, 73 percent of STEM job growth will be in computer occupations.

"Real Security Requires Strong Encryption--Even if Investigators Get Blocked"
The Conversation, November 1, 2017
The FBI is demanding encryption systems have "exceptional access" wherein law enforcement can use warrants to bypass those systems, writes ACM Fellow Susan Landau.

"Study Finds Fringe Communities on Reddit and 4chan Have High Influence on Flow of Alternative News to Twitter"
UAB News, November 1, 2017
Results of the study were published at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2017).

"Bitcoin mania has students flocking to crypto classes at Stanford and other top compsci schools"
True Viral News, November 1, 2017
“A lot of people are attracted to the huge valuations in these currencies,” said Dan Boneh, 2014 ACM Prize in Computing recipient and co-director of the Stanford Computer Security Lab.

"Forget face scans, your clothes could soon be your new passcode"
New Indian Express, November 1, 2017
University of Washington researchers presented fabrics and fashion accessories that can store data at UIST 2017.

"Microsoft reveals network simulator that keeps Azure alive"
The Register (UK), November 1, 2017
Microsoft tool to prevent bugs unveiled at SOSP 2017.

"SC17 Inclusivity Chair Toni Collis"
HPCwire, October 31, 2017
In an interview, SC17 Conference Inclusivity Chair Toni Collis discusses diversity and inclusion in high performance computing.

"System for performing 'tensor algebra' offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages"
PhysOrg, October 31, 2017
New system that automatically produces code optimization for sparse data presented at SPLASH 2017.

"Densmore Named Top-Five Innovator by Design Automation Conference"
Boston University, October 2017
DAC 2017 names ACM Senior Member Douglas Densmore one of Top Five Innovators.

"'Instant Replay' for Computer Systems Shows Cyberattack Details"
Georgia Tech News Center, October 30, 2017
The research was presented at CCS 2017.

"'Combosquatting' Attack Hides in Plain Sight to Trick Computer Users"
Georgia Tech News Center, October 30, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University researchers presented study of combosquatting--a cyberattack that involves tricking users into visiting website domains containing familiar trademarks, but with additional words that change the destination to an attack site—at CCS 2017.

"New 'Furion' Software Allows Untethered High-Quality VR"
Purdue University News, October 30, 2017
Researchers at Purdue University have proposed a software platform called Furion to play high-quality virtual reality games using an untethered mobile device. They presented their research at MobiCom 2017.

"Good vibrations: Smart access to homes and cars using fingers"
domain-b.com, October 30, 2017
New finger vibration technology to debut at CCS 2017.

"Faster Big-Data Analysis"
MIT News, October 30, 2017
Researchers unveiled Taco, a tensor algebra compiler that automatically generates code optimized for sparse data, at SPLASH 2017.

"Singapore Teaches Its Seniors to Code"
CNet, October 30, 2017
Libraries in Singapore are hosting special versions of the global Hour of Code movement, which is helping seniors aged 50 and older learn how to program in the Swift language alongside student volunteer instructors. ACM is a partner in Code.org, which organizes the week-long event.

"Smart Access to Homes and Cars Using Fingers"
Rutgers Today, October 29, 2017
The research was presented at CCS 2017.

"A smoother transfer path for computer science"
Community College Daily, October 27, 2017
Transfer guidelines by ACM’s Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges aim to ensure two-year and four-year institutions are in sync about the courses CS students should take.

"NSF Awards NCSA Funds for a Deep-Learning Research Instrument"
HPCwire, October 24, 2017
"This deep-learning instrument will bolster current relevant deep-learning research communities here at the University of Illinois, allowing researchers to leverage deep learning more than they ever could before," says Bill Gropp, director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications and an ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award recipient.

"Researchers Unveil Tool to Debug 'Black Box' Deep-Learning Algorithms"
Columbia News, October 24, 2017
Researchers at Columbia and Lehigh universities have developed DeepXplore, a debugging tool for error-checking deep-learning neural networks by feeding them confusing real-world inputs to reveal infrequent cases of flawed reasoning. They presented their research at SOSP 2017.

"Preservation for the (Digital) Ages"
Texas Advanced Computing Center, October 24, 2017
Researchers from two Texas institutions presented a technique to enhance the preservation of digital humanities databases at JCDL 2017.

Bloated Browser Functionality Presents Unnecessary Security, Privacy Risks"
UIC Today, October 23, 2017
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified browser functionalities that are rarely used or needed by websites, but which pose security and privacy risks. They will present their findings at CCS 2017.

"What's the Future of Programming? The Answer Lies in Functional Languages"
TechRepublic, October 23, 2017
Microsoft's Simon Peyton Jones (an ACM Fellow) says functional programming languages offer a glimpse of features to be incorporated into future mainstream languages.

"Focus Computer Science Funding on Teacher Training, Code.org Founder Says"
EdScoop, October 23, 2017
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi says every dollar committed to computer science education should be channeled into teacher training, including all $200 million the Trump administration has authorized the US Department of Education to spend on STEM and computer science programs annually. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Lessons from the Laureates"
The Hindu, October 23, 2017
Young Indian researchers participated in this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

"A Stanford-led Platform for Crowdsourced Research Gives Experience to Global Participants"
Stanford News, October 23, 2017
Stanford-led platform for crowdsourced research presented at UIST 2017.

"Selective Memory"
MIT News, October 22, 2017
Researchers at MIT, Intel, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology present new cache-management scheme that upgrades the data rate of in-package dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) caches by 33 percent to 50 percent at MICRO-50.

"New Wearables Displayed at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium"
Electronics 360, October 20, 2017
A watch that works in multiple dimensions, a smart ring that provides calendar alerts and, and a new thumb-tip recognition software are some of the top technology showcased at UIST 2017.

"Voicebox Chief AI Scientist Receives Prestigious AI Research Award"
TMC News, October 20, 2017
Philip Cohen, Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence and Senior Vice President for Advanced Technology at Voicebox Technologies, receives Sustained Accomplishment award from ACM at ICMI 2017.

"Cybercrime Fighter Wins Genius Award"
MyScience, October 19, 2017
ACM Prize in Computing recipient Stefan Savage receives MacArthur genius award.

"For $1,000, Anyone Can Purchase Online Ads to Track Your Location and App Use"
UW News, October 18, 2017
University of Washington researchers to present work suggesting that it could cost only about $1,000 for someone to buy and target online ads in order to monitor the location of others as well as their application use at WPES 2017.

"New Techniques Boost Performance of Non-Volatile Memory Systems"
NC State News, October 17, 2017
North Carolina State University researchers say they have developed new software and hardware designs that should limit programming errors and improve system performance in devices using non-volatile memory. They presented their work at MICRO 50.

"Liquid Metal Brings Soft Robotics a Step Closer"
University of Sussex (UK), October 17, 2017
Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University say they have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into two-dimensional shapes such as letters and a heart. They presented their research at ISS 2017.

"LiShield Can Block Smartphone Cameras for Privacy's Sake"
IEEE Spectrum, October 17, 2017
“LiShield” privacy system specifically targeting consumer digital cameras such as smartphone-grade cameras by exploiting their limitations in capturing images was presented at Mobicom 2017.

"Innovators Under 40 to Be Recognized at the 55th Design Automation Conference"
infoTECH, October 16, 2017
DAC 2018, conference devoted to the design and design automation of electronic systems, is now accepting nominations for the Under 40 Innovators Award.

"Berkeley Experts on How to Build More Secure, Faster AI Systems"
Berkeley News, October 16, 2017
RISELab member David Patterson, a former ACM president, notes accommodating the exponential growth of device-generated data could be achieved by designing secure, AI-specific computers that are optimized for a given task.

"Study Finds Auto-Fix Tool Gets More Programmers to Upgrade Code"
NC State News, October 16, 2017
North Carolina State University researchers have found that auto-fix tools are effective ways to get programmers to make relevant upgrades. They will present their research at ASE 2017.

"Could AI Be the Future of Fake News and Product Reviews?"
Scientific American, October 16, 2017
University of Chicago researchers are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques for automatically generating convincing online reviews, such as bogus Yelp restaurant critiques. They will present their research at CCS 2017.

"Association for Computing Machinery volunteers with Feed My Sheep"
The Northeastern, October 11, 2017
ACM Student Chapter members at Northeastern University volunteer for hunger initiative.

"ACM’s Council on Women in Computing Appoints Jodi Tims Chair"
HPC Wire, October 11, 2017

"CMU Women Honored at Grace Hopper Celebration"
Carnegie Mellon University, October 11, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University women recognized for their contributions to increasing diversity in the fields of computer science and technology at GHC 2017.

"Stefan Savage receives prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship"
University of California, October 11, 2017
Savage, an ACM Fellow, received the 2015 ACM Prize in Computing.

"Future Smartwatches Could Sense Hand Movement Using Ultrasound Imaging"
University of Bristol News, October 11, 2017
University of Bristol researchers say future wearable devices, such as smartwatches, could use ultrasound imaging of the forearm to recognize hand gestures. They presented their research at CHI 2017.

"For Fighting Cybercrime and Boosting Internet Security, UCSD's Stefan Savage Wins a MacArthur Award"
Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2017
University of California, San Diego professor, ACM Fellow and ACM Prize in Computing recipient Stefan Savage won a five-year, $625,000 "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation for his work on projects to protect computer systems from attackers.

"Collaborative Software Development Made Easy"
Nature, October 4, 2017
Study presented at 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2016) estimated about 40 percent of the 34,544 most popular open source projects hosted on GitHub employed continuous integration in some form.

"These 10 Huge Discoveries Should’ve Been Nobel Prize Winners"
National Geographic, October 4, 2017
Mention of Sir Tim Berners-Lee receiving the ACM Turing Award.

"Top students and Ph.D. researchers in math, computer science convened with Laureates in Heidelberg, Germany"
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, October 3, 2017
21 top US students and postdoctoral researchers attended 2017 Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

"Functional Languages Beat Procedural/Object-Oriented"
Application Development Trends, October 3, 2017
University of Virginia and University of California, Davis research study evaluating impact of programming languages on software quality published in October Communications of the ACM.

"More Teachers, Fewer 3D Printers: How to Improve K–12 Computer Science Education"
IEEE Spectrum, October 2, 2017
ACM and Code.org have been working tirelessly to establish and expand CS access in schools.

"Improving K–12 Computer Science Education"
IEEE Spectrum, October 2, 2017
University of Washington professor Ed Lazowska (recipient of the ACM Presidential Award for 2005 and the ACM Distinguished Service Award for 2009) says computational thinking should be cultivated in all citizens.

"Filling the Pipeline for Computer Science Teachers"
Science, October 2, 2017
Code.org’s Cameron Wilson says that Code.org and other organizations are pressuring states "to think about allocating funding so they can take in-service teachers and prepare them to teach computer science."

"'Superhero' Robot Wears Different Outfits for Different Tasks"
MIT News, September 27, 2017
"Our approach shows that origami-inspired manufacturing allows us to have robotic components that are versatile, accessible, and reusable," says MIT professor and ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"Stanford Cyber Initiative Tackles Pressing Issues in Cybersecurity, Governance, and the Future of Work"
Stanford News, September 26, 2017
In an interview, Stanford University professors Michael McFaul and 2014 ACM Prize in Computng recipient Dan Boneh discuss the purpose of the Stanford Cyber Initiative, which they co-direct.

"Goodbye, Login. Hello, Heart Scan."
University at Buffalo, September 26, 2017
New biometric identifier based on the shape of your heart to be unveiled at MobiCom 2017.

"Why Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn't Worried About Technology Stealing Your Job"
Fortune, September 24, 2017
In an interview, Google engineering director and ACM Fellow and Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Ray Kurzweil says artificial intelligence will be far more beneficial than harmful in the long term, and the "singularity" when computers overtake human intelligence should be welcomed.

"System Automatically Modifies Code for Transfer to Other Programs"
Science Newsline, September 21, 2017
New system that allows code to be transplanted from one system to another presented at ESEC/FSE 2017.

"Internet Rulemaking Is Going to Get More Complicated"
NextGov.com, September 21, 2017
A new report from the Internet Society, a think tank co-founded by Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf, who shared the 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Robert E. Kahn, sees a strong need for "multistakeholder" governmental/societal collaboration on a "consensus policy" for the Internet.

"Automatic Code Reuse"
MIT News, September 19, 2017
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed CodeCarbonCopy, a system enabling programmers to transplant code between programs. They presented it at ESEC/FSE 2017.

"A salute to progress: the Heidelberg Laureate Forum celebrates its fifth event this weekend"
AlphaGalileo, September 2017

"Imperial prof named Chair for European arm of world's largest computing society"
Imperial College London, September 18, 2017
Chris Hankin named Chair of ACM Europe Council.

"Teacher Receives Award in Computer Science"
WNEP, September 18, 2017
Computer Science teacher Robert Luciano receives CSTA Teaching Excellence Award.

"Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains"
The New York Times, September 16, 2017
Researchers are taking biological cues to remodel computing after the human brain to overcome the physical limits of semiconductors. "The existing [computing] approach is out of steam, and people are trying to re-architect the system," says former Stanford University president and ACM Fellow and ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient John Hennessy.

"Kathy Yelick Charts the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science"
HPCWire, September 15, 2017
Interview with ACM Felllow, Athena Lecturer and Ken Kennedy Award recipient Yelick.

"Chirpy, chirpy, cheap, cheap: Printable IoT radios for 10 cents each"
The Register (UK), September 14, 2017
University of Washington researchers present printable IoT radios at Ubicomp 2017.

"PrivacyStreams Helps Developers Create Privacy-Friendly Apps"
Carnegie Mellon News, September 13, 2017
CMU and Peking University researchers demonstrated PrivacyStreams, a service enabling application developers to access smartphone data required for app functionality while assuring users their private information is not being exposed, at Ubicomp 2017.

"UW Team Shatters Long-Range Communication Barrier for Devices That Consume Almost No Power"
UW News, September 13, 2017
University of Washington researchers demonstrated first-ever transmission of data across up to 2.8 kilometers by devices that run on almost no power at Ubicomp 2017.

"To Improve Smartphone Privacy, Control Access to Third-Party Libraries"
Carnegie Mellon News, September 11, 2017
CMU researchers suggest controlling access to third-party libraries will help limit the undesired exposure of personal information by smartphone applications. They presented their research at Ubicomp 2017.

"Fake Facebook 'Like' Networks Exploited Code Flaw to Create Millions of Bogus 'Likes'"
USA Today, September 8, 2017
Researchers at the University of Iowa, working with colleagues at Facebook and in Pakistan, have documented a network of more than 50 websites that let users automatically create millions of false "likes" and comments on Facebook. The research will be presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2017).

"Researchers Say Bitcoin Data Could Help Spot Sex Traffickers"
Fast Company, September 8, 2017
Research designed to fight sex trafficking presented at KDD 2017.

"Tweet analysis could pinpoint where to send emergency help in disasters like Harvey"
itbusiness.ca (Canada), September 8, 2017
Researchers present TrioVecEvent, a system that uses artificial intelligence to analyze tweets and detect events like natural disasters, protests, riots and terrorist attacks as soon as they happen, at KDD 2017.

"John L. Hennessy elected to Royal Academy of Engineering"
Stanford News, September 7, 2017
ACM Fellow Hennessy elected international fellow of UK's national academy for engineering.

"New Technology Could Revolutionize Smartphone Use"
University of St. Andrews, September 4, 2017
Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. have developed SpeCam, a technology enabling smartphones to perform tasks by recognizing the surface they’re sitting on. The system will be presented at MobileHCI 2017.

Coverage of ACM Europe Conference in Barcelona:
Conference of Directors and Deans of Computer Engineering (Spain), September 6, 2017
HPC Wire, September 4, 2017
Inside HPC, September 4, 2017

"Two Sciences Tie the Knot"
MIT News, September 4, 2017
ACM Turing Award recipient Herb Simon was a venerated economist who was also an early computer scientist.

"What the Industrial Revolution really tells us about the future of automation and work"
The Conversation, September 1, 2017
Rice University professor and former Communications of the ACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi mulls the impact of AI and automation on employment prospects.

"What James Damore Got Wrong about Gender Bias in Computer Science"
Wired, September 1, 2017
Former ACM presidents Maria Klawe and David Patterson co-authored this article with John Hennessy in which several experts rebut former Google employee James Damore's conceit that innate biological differences underlie female software engineers' underrepresentation in the tech industry.

"Is the world on the brink of a computing revolution? Quantum computing at the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum"
AlphaGalileo, August 31, 2017
Fifth Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) will include panel on quantum computing.

"Emirates Digital Association for Women to participate in Women in Computing event"
DOT Emirates, August 29, 2017
Smart Dubai office has sponsored the Emirates Digital Association for Women to participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC).

"Detecting Pancreatic Cancer Using Selfies"
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, August 29, 2017
App that uses smartphone selfies to scan for pancreatic cancer to be presented at Ubicomp 2017.

"App uses smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer"
UPI, August 28, 2017
App that uses smartphone selfies to scan for pancreatic cancer to be presented at Ubicomp 2017.

"Interview with Michael Stonebraker: Distinguished Scientist and recipient of 2014 ACM Turing Award"
Analytics India Magazine, August 28, 2017
Turing Award laureate Stonebraker talks about future of AI.

"Drones Relay RFID Signals for Inventory Control"
MIT News , August 25, 2017
MIT researchers presented RFly, a system enabling small aerial drones to scan radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags tens of meters away while determining their whereabouts, at SIGCOMM 2017.

"Programming language plus simple circuit design could let routers report on their own operation"
TechXplore, August 24, 2017
MIT, Cisco to present research on network efficiency at SIGCOMM 2017.

"Monitoring Network Traffic More Efficiently"
MIT News, August 23, 2017
MIT researchers presented Marple, a more efficient network traffic monitoring system designed to minimize the circuit complexity of the router and the number of external analytic servers, SIGCOMM 2017.

"Cryptographers and Geneticists Unite to Analyze Genomes They Can't See"
Scientific American, August 22, 2017
Stanford University cryptographer (and ACM Fellow and ACM Prize recipient) Dan Boneh and geneticist Gill Bejerano have developed a secure multiparty computation (SMC) algorithm to discover disease-linked genetic mutations without actually seeing anyone's genome, making the protection of genomic privacy practical.

"CCR staffer lands coveted spot at supercomputing conference"
UB Now, August 22, 2017
University of Buffalo systems administrator helping to build network for SC17.

"New York University Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop 'Unhackable' Computer Chip"
The National, August 20, 2017
Researchers will present their research this fall at the ACM Conference on Computer Communications and Security (CCS 2017).

"Out-of-this-World Science Project to Be Featured as Keynote at SC17´s High Performance Computing Conference in Denver"
Business Wire, August 16, 2017
Phillip Diamond, Director General of the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, will keynote at SC17.

"In a Step toward Fighting Human Trafficking, Sex Ads Are Linked to Bitcoin Data"
University of California, Berkeley, August 16, 2017
Research designed to fight sex trafficking to be presented at KDD 2017.

"Zooming in on Climate Predictions"
Northeastern University, August 16, 2017
Climate change prediction research to be presented at KDD 2017.

"How Hardware Drives the Shape of Databases to Come"
The Next Platform, August 15, 2017
Interview with 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Michael Stonebraker.

"The Maddeningly Simple Way Tech Companies Can Employ More Women"
The New York Times, August 15, 2017
In the wake of Google employee’s memo questioning diversity initiatives, Grace Hopper Celebration cited as a positive resource for women in tech.

"UMass Amherst Computer Scientists Develop New Technique to Measure Social Bias in Software"
UMass Amherst News, August 14, 2017
UMass Amherst researchers’ Themis, an approach to automatically test software for social bias, wins SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

"USC needs more female faculty in STEM"
Daily Trojan, August 14, 2017
USA Today ranked the University of Southern California as the third best college for women studying STEM. Their ACM student chapter has a female president.

"Researchers seek fool-proof Android malware detection with AI"
IT World Canada, August 14, 2017
Researchers from the US and Hong Kong attending KDD 2017 say they have created a machine learning technique that could push detection to almost 100%.

"I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you."
Vox, August 11, 2017
In the wake of Google employee’s memo questioning diversity initiatives, Grace Hopper Celebration cited as a positive resource for women in tech.

"Researchers Use Machine Learning to Spot Counterfeit Consumer Products"
New York University, August 11, 2017
NYU researchers presented their work at KDD 2017.

"Hacking Cybersecurity to Anticipate Attacks"
News@Northeastern, August 8, 2017
The ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2017) highlighted developing a hacking model for anticipating cyberattacks.

"New AI Algorithm Monitors Sleep With Radio Waves"
MIT News, August 6, 2017
"Our device allows you not only to remove all of these sensors that you put on the person, and make it a much better experience that can be done at home, it also makes the job of the doctor and the sleep technologist much easier," says MIT professor and ACM Hopper Award recipient Dina Katabi.

"SIGGRAPH 2017 Concludes in Los Angeles with Strong Attendance"
Shoot, August 4, 2017
More than 16,500 people attended ACM SIGGRAPH 2017, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

"Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects"
MIT News, August 3, 2017
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory presented a system for cataloging the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for larger printable objects at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"An App for the Perfect Selfie"
University of Waterloo, August 2, 2017
Canadian researchers presented a smartphone application designed to help people learn how to take better selfies at DIS 2017.

"Celebrity Twitter Accounts Display 'Bot-Like' Behavior"
University of Cambridge (UK), August 2, 2017
University of Cambridge researchers presented analysis of Twitter data to determine whether celebrity-level accounts with more than 10 million followers exhibit more bot-like retweeting behavior than users with fewer followers, at ASONAM 2017.

"Speak Easy: How Neural Networks Are Transforming the World of Translation"
IT Pro, August 1, 2017
Imperial College London professor and ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award recipient Erol Gelenbe says artificial neural networks can ease language translation by executing a three-step process.

"4D Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on"
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, August 1, 2017
MPI-IS researchers have developed technology that can digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a 3D digital platform, and dress virtual avatars with it. They presented their findings at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Algorithms that Can Sketch, Recreate 3D Shapes"
UBC News, August 1, 2017
University of British Columbia researchers presented FlowRep, software that can create a design sketch of an everyday object, at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Automatic Image Retouching on Your Phone"
MIT News, August 1, 2017
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Google presented a cellphone-based system that can automatically retouch images at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"The Benefits of Networking"
HuffPost, July 31, 2017
Blogger who was active in ACM chapter encourages young people to join professional associations.

"Breakthrough Software Teaches Computer Characters to Walk, Run, Even Play Soccer"
UBC News, July 31, 2017
Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada presented DeepLoco, an algorithm that offers an alternative way to animate human movement in games and film instead of the current method, at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Picture Perfect"
The UC Santa Barbara Current, July 31, 2017
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara presented Computational Zoom, a new system that enables photographers to compose an image after it's been captured by controlling the relative positions and sizes of objects in the image, at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"200 Terabyte Proof Demonstrates the Potential of Brute-Force Math"
Motherboard, July 30, 2017
Communications of the ACM paper on satisfiability solving featured.

"Interview: Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor and William Norris Chair in Large Scale Computing at University of Minnesota"
Inside Big Data, July 29, 2017
ACM Fellow Vipin Kumar on the promises and challenges of Big Data.

"Design Method Helps Animated Characters Gain Physical Form"
EurekAlert, July 28, 2017
Disney researchers presented a method for designing cable-driven mechanisms that help artists give physical form and motion to animated characters at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2017).

"CMU Method Enables Telescoping Devices to Bend and Twist"
Carnegie Mellon News, July 27, 2017
CMU researchers presented a method for designing telescoping structures that can bend and twist, a breakthrough they say could enable motion for robots of various shapes at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Significant New Researcher Award of ACM SIGGRAPH goes to Bernd Bickel"
APA Science (Austria), July 27, 2017
Bernd Bickel receives SIGGRAPH New Researcher Award.

"Prepping students for future computer science jobs"
District Administration, July 26, 2017
“The alternative for computer science for all is computer science for some and nothing for the rest,” says Chris Stephenson, head of computer science education strategy at Google and a member of ACM’s Education Board.

"Intelligent Animation"
The UC Santa Barbara Current, July 26, 2017
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Disney, and Pixar are working to incorporate artificial intelligence into a computer-based rendering system. They presented their findings at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"BGU Researcher Develops New 3D Scanning Technique"
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 25, 2017
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel led an international team that developed a technique that combines robotics and water to create more accurate 3D scanning for reconstructing complex objects. They presented their research at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"'Magic Bench' Lets Users See, Hear, and Feel Animated Characters"
ScienceDaily, July 25, 2017
Disney researchers presented a combined augmented and mixed-reality experience in which multiple users experience virtual surroundings as a group at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"CPU Architecture after Moore's Law: What's Next?"
Computerworld, July 24, 2017
"This will be a renaissance era for computer architecture—these will be exciting times," says University of California, Berkeley professor and former ACM president David Patterson.

"Academician Pei Jian, Simon Fraser University, Canada, was elected ACM SIGKDD New President"
AI Technology Review (China), July 24, 2017
SIGKDD, ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, elects new president.

"Carnegie Mellon Robotics pioneer receives highest honor in computer graphics"
PhysOrg, July 24, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH honors Carnegie Mellon computer science and robotics professor with Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.

"McDaniel named Weiss Chair in Information and Communications Technology"
Penn State University, July 24, 2017
ACM Fellow Patrick McDaniel, distinguished professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State, has been named the William L. Weiss Chair in Information and Communications Technology.

"Interview: Daphne Koller, Chief Computing Officer, Calico; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University"
Inside Big Data, July 22, 2017
Koller, who received the inaugural ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences (now known as the ACM Prize in Computing), talks about challenges and opportunities of Big Data.

A Look at the History of RDBMS"
DZone, July 21, 2017
Charles Bachman received ACM's Turing Award for his efforts in creating “Integrated Data Store,” or IDS.

"SIGGRAPH 2017 Announces Highlights From This Year’s Emerging Technologies, Studio, and Real-Time Live! Programs"
WorldNews, July 20, 2017
Highlights from SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technology Studio.

Research competition gives tech students a chance to show off their research"
The Daily (University of Washington), July 20, 2017
ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals winner featured.

"Who Will Control the Swarm?"
Stanford News, July 19, 2017
Although most current research into autonomous vehicles assumes a distributed model controlled in a peer-to-peer manner, with each machine doing its own calculations, a more concentrated model would have significant advantages, says Platform Lab faculty director John Ousterhout, who received the 1987 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award and the 1997 ACM Software System Award.

"Making Animated Characters Jump Just Got Easier"
EurekAlert, July 18, 2017
Researchers at Disney have developed an authoring tool for motion cycles that enables novice video game designers to quickly create a motion cycle and enhances the workflow for expert animators. They presented it at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2017) conference.

"Researchers Develop New Computational Method to Make Data-Driven 3D Modeling Easier "
Xinhua, July 18, 2017
Researchers will demonstrate GRASS at SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Women and Minorities Shatter Records as Thousands Take AP Computer Science Exam"
GeekWire, July 18, 2017
Although lack of diversity in the tech industry has become a major issue in recent years, these new figures indicate a positive trend, according to Code.org founder Hadi Partovi.

"Improving Disease Prediction With Big Data Analytics"
Lehigh University, July 17, 2017
The effort was led by Lehigh professor Mooi Choo Chuah, technical co-chair of the IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2017).

"Can computer science education be fun?"
CSO, July 17, 2017
K-12 Computer Science Framework created by ACM, CSTA and Code.org sought to develop a new framework that defines computer science.

"President of ACM awarded honorary degree"
Newcastle University, July 14, 2017
Vicki Hanson made honorary doctor of science by Newcastle University.

"Catch 'em all: Pokemon Go is actually making you healthier"
NewsDog, July 10, 2017
Research at CHI 2017 showed that Pokemon Go makes families more active.

"Dutch Database Design Drives Practical Innovation"
ComputerWeekly.com, July 10, 2017
Martin Kersten has become just the third citizen of the Netherlands to be recognized as an ACM Fellow, following previous recipients Edsger Dijkstra (also recipient of the 1972 ACM A.M. Turing Award) and Andrew Tanenbaum (also recipient of the 1994 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award).

"UW's Lip-Syncing Obama Demonstrates New Technique to Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video"
GeekWire, July 10, 2017
University of Washington researchers’ system that can take audio clips from one speech and sync them with video clips from another speech, creating realistic-looking lip-synced videos, to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2017.

"World's first 'battery-free' mobile phone could mark the beginning of the end for chargers"
Mirror (UK), July 6, 2017
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies includes research announcing first “battery free” mobile phone.

"54th Design Automation Conference Announces Preliminary Attendance Numbers"
Telecommsbriefing.net, July 5, 2017
DAC 2017, premier ACM event devoted to design and automation of electronic systems attracted thousands of attendees from all over the world.

"What’s Challenging in Big Data Now: Integration and Privacy"
Datanami, July 5, 2017
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the A.M. Turing Award, ACM convened a gathering of some of the brightest minds in computing, including 2014 award recipient and Big Data expert Michael Stonebraker.

"Why, Robot? Understanding AI Ethics"
The Register (UK), July 4, 2017
ACM member Jonathan M. Smith discusses AI ethics.

"Disney Research, Pixar Animation Studios, and UCSB Accelerate Rendering With AI"
EurekAlert, June 30, 2017
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Disney Research, and Pixar Animation Studios to present high-quality image rendering technique at SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Making Waves"
IST Austria, June 29, 2017
Computer scientists using wave packet theory to develop realistic, detailed water wave simulations in real time will present their results at SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Research Opportunities and Visions for Smart and Pervasive Health"
CCC Blog, June 29, 2017
The Computing Community Consortium presented draft recommendations at WISH 2017, the ACM/American Medical Informatics Association Workshop of Interactive Systems in Healthcare.

"How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding into American Classrooms"
The New York Times, June 27, 2017
Code.org (of which ACM is a partner) in a few years has become a template for Silicon Valley education reform, characterized by social-media savvy.

"Microsoft and intelligent markets at ACM EC’17"
Microsoft Research Blog, June 26, 2017
18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’17) featured in blog post.

"Korean Computer Scientist Wins 'Influential Paper' Award"
Korea Times, June 26, 2017
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) professor Kim Nam-sung was named this year's winner of the most influential paper award at ICSE 2017.

"Drones That Drive"
MIT News, June 26, 2017
"As we begin to develop planning and control algorithms for flying cars, we are encouraged by the possibility of creating robots with these capabilities at small scale," says MIT CSAIL Director and ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"Expert Panel Debunks AI Hype"
EE Times, June 26, 2017
Neural networks panel debates AI technologies at ACM Turing 50 Celebration. http://www.acm.org/turing-award-50

"Beware the Hype of Artificial Intelligence"
Fortune, June 23, 2017
AI has generated much hype over its current capabilities. That’s one takeaway from a panel of leading AI experts hosted by ACM for its Celebration of the 50th Turing Award.

"AI is still several breakthroughs away from reality"
VentureBeat, June 23, 2017
A panel of leading machine learning and AI experts spoke at ACM’s Celebration of the 50th Turing Award.

"NSF-funded ACM Turing Awardees: A Look at 50 Years of Computing's Greatest Visionaries"
National Science Foundation, June 22, 2017

"Association for Computing Machinery Honors Avere CTO and Co-Founder Michael Kazar with Software System Award"
Canadian Insider, June 20, 2017

"Illinois Researchers Build Dropbox-Like Storage, Analytical System for Scientific Data"
University of Illinois News Bureau, June 19, 2017
4CeeD won a Best Paper award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2017).

"Thousands of Fort Mac Fire Tweets Show Evacuees Struggled for Online Answers"
UToday, June 19, 2017
Study published in ICSE 2017 proceedings analyzed nearly 70,000 tweets sent out by evacuees escaping the Fort McMurray wildfire last May, and they learned the concerns of citizens are not being answered by current smartphone emergency apps.

"Russian Students Dominate at the Computer Programming Olympics"
Salon.com, June 18, 2017
Russian and Chinese student teams won most of the top spots in the 41st annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in May, and their lower-ranked U.S. counterparts attribute this disparity mainly to the fact the winners start learning computer programming much earlier.

"Shrinking Data for Surgical Training "
MIT News, June 16, 2017
“[One] thing that is extraordinarily exciting to the surgeons is that in the future, we should be able to monitor the progression of the operation in real time," says MIT professor and ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"Sparse Fourier Transform Gives Stream Processing a Lifeline from the Coming Data Deluge"
Datanami, June 13, 2017
Article features ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient Haitham Hassanieh.

"Workshops and Tutorials Provide Education Opportunities at DAC 2017"
Cellular News, June 13, 2017
DAC 2017 workshops and tutorials featured.

"Internet of Things: Safety, Security and Privacy. Interview with Vint G. Cerf"
ODBMS Industry Watch, June 11, 2017
Google Chief Internet Evangelist and former ACM President Cerf likes the idea behind programmable, communicating devices but is concerned about their safety.

"Taxonomy Goes Digital: Getting a Handle on Social Bots"
IEEE Spectrum, June 9, 2017
Researchers will present one of a growing number of socialbot taxonomies at WebSci'17.

"SIGGRAPH 2017 VR Village to Host Highly Diverse Array of VR/AR Projects from Around the World"
ProductionHUB, June 2017
44th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2017) to feature VR Village, a relatively young program within the conference.

"Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89"
The New York Times, June 4, 2017
Software engineer Jean E. Sammet, who co-designed the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) and was elected the first female president of the ACM in 1974, passed away on May 20 at the age of 89.

"Thanks to Telepresence Robots, Kids Can Attend School from Home"
Fast Company, June 1, 2017
UC Irvine paper on telepresence robots in education presented at CHI 2017.

"Demand, the Duopoly and the Case for the Open Internet"
DigiDay, June 2017
What if, rather than creating an open community, 2016 ACM Turing Award recipient Sir Tim Berners-Lee had patented the Internet and monetized his invention by charging for access to its services?

"Pioneering Computer Scientist Calls for National Algorithm Safety Board"
Techworld, May 31, 2017
University of Maryland professor and ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ben Shneiderman proposed creating a National Algorithm Safety Board to ensure that software is held accountable and to restore trust in algorithms damaged by recent scandals concerning their use to spread biases, misinformation, and inequality.

"Shenzhen ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Hosts International Workshop on CG Science & Technology Achievements"
ACM SIGGRAPH, May 30, 2017
Shenzhen ACM SIGGRAPH chapter hosts international workshop on computer graphics.

"How AI Can Keep Accelerating After Moore's Law"
Technology Review, May 30, 2017
Microsoft NExT engineer and ACM Fellow Doug Burger notes although conventional software performance "has stopped improving at historical rates," AI performance continues to rapidly accelerate--a trend that is likely to persist.

"Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing"
IEEE Spectrum, May 24, 2017
University of California, Santa Barbara professor John Martinis says the qubits constituting the array also could be employed to build larger "universal" quantum systems with error correction. Martinis will participate in a panel on quantum computing at the upcoming ACM Celebration of 50 Years of the Turing Award.

"Learning About Nutrition From 'Food Porn' and Online Quizzes"
Harvard University, May 24, 2017
Harvard and Columbia researchers’ study to determine whether popular online quizzes and food imagery could be leveraged for nutrition education presented at CHI 2017.

"Country 2.0: Upgrading Cities With Smart Technologies"
Asian Management Insights, May 22, 2017
In a panel, Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf, who shared the 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Robert E. Kahn, noted integration is a key component of smart systems. MIT professor and 1992 Turing Award recipient Butler Lampson pointed to tradeoffs between privacy protection and the benefits resulting from wider ranges of data use.

"Chris Manning: How Computers Are Learning to Understand Language"
Stanford University, May 22, 2017
In an interview, Stanford University professor and ACM Fellow Christopher D. Manning says his work on computational linguistics concentrates on the meaning of words.

"What Industry Wants"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2017
Interview with Intel University Program Director Scott Buck Mentions ACM/IEEE Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education.

"Why Yahoo Thinks It May Be Time to Blow up Your Inbox"
Fast Company, May 19, 2017
Yahoo unveiled a prototype design called CardMail that replaces the venerable inbox view with a set of lists in categories like travel, deals, events, and receipts at CHI 2017.

"Researchers Look to Add Statistical Safeguards to Data Analysis and Visualization Software"
News from Brown, May 19, 2017
QUDE, software designed to eliminate multiple hypothesis testing errors in interactive data exploration and visualization systems, was unveiled at SIGMOD/PODS 2017.

"Family TV Viewing and SMS Texting Could Help Cut Internet Energy Use"
Lancaster University, May 18, 2017
Researchers have identified four categories of data-hungry service, including watching video, social networking, communications, and listening. They presented their work at CHI 2017.

"Bitcoin's Popular Design Is Being Exploited for Theft and Fraud"
Lancaster University, May 17, 2017
Research demonstrating opportunities for bitcoin's transparency mechanisms to be exploited to facilitate dishonest trading presented at CHI 2017.

"Technology edits voices like text"
IGIHE, May 16, 2017
Research by Princeton graduate student to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Under Cyberattack: UH Researchers Look at How to Catch a 'Phisher'"
University of Houston News, May 16, 2017
Research into why phishing attacks are so successful presented at ASIACCS 2017.

"Thursday Is Training Day—Tradition Continues at the 54th Design Automation Conference"
Digital Journal, May 16, 2017
DAC, the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems, is excited to once again host a Training Day allowing attendees to attend high-quality sessions in popular subjects.

"Kai-fu Lee: I do not believe in singularity, I believe the platform of artificial intelligence toolbox"
AiLab (China), May 15, 2017
At ACM TURC 2017, the ACM Turing Award 50 years China Conference held in Shanghai, Li Kaifu, President of the Innovation Workshop and CEO of the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Institute, hosted Turing Award Laureates and other renowned industry scholars at a roundtable forum.

"Search for data from the winner of the Turing Award in 1966-2016"
Sciencenet (China), May 15, 2017
Chinese article examines stats about Turing Award recipients.

"Argentine students to participate in the world of programming in the United States"
Conclusion, May 15, 2017
Argentinian students prepare for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

"Car VR and the other weird tech at CHI 2017"
The Next Web, May 12, 2017
Some of the more unusual innovations at CHI 2017 featured.

"Computer scientist chosen for Purdue’s 2017 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award"
Military Technologies, May 11, 2017
ACM Fellow Mikhail Atallah honored by Purdue University.

"Internet of Things Made Simple: One Sensor Package Does Work of Many"
Carnegie Mellon News, May 11, 2017
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have developed a plug-in sensor package that tracks multiple phenomena in a room, collecting insights via machine-learning methods. They presented their "Synthetic Sensors" project at CHI 2017.

"Stanford Researchers Develop Crowdsourcing Software to Convene Rapid, On-Demand 'Flash Organizations'"
Stanford News, May 10, 2017
Researchers at Stanford University presented software that integrates crowdsourcing's flexibility and the benefits of on-demand specialists to form "flash organizations" at CHI 2017.

You really should know what the Andrew File System Is
Network World, May 10, 2017
Mahadev "Satya" Satyanarayanan, who along with his team were recognized with the 2016 ACM Software System Award, talks about AFS.

"Engage with brilliant mathematicians and computer scientists!"
Scienmag, May 10, 2017
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation offers 15 travel grants of up to 3,000 euros to enable journalists to report on the HLF, an annual networking event.

"DMU academic helps draft new code setting ethical benchmark around the world"
DeMontfort University (UK), May 10, 2017
DeMontfort University Senior Lecturer in Computing and Social Responsibility part of team working on updating ACM Code of Ethics.

"Major Award for Cambridge Computer Luminary"
Cambridge News, May 10, 2017
Ken Banks named recipient of ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award.

"Kids, Parents Alike Worried about Privacy with Internet-Connected Toys"
UW Today, May 10, 2017
University of Washington study pointing to anxieties about potential for Wi-Fi-enabled Internet-connected toys to infringe on children's privacy presented at CHI 2017.

"Social, Computer Scientists Want to Share Data on Group Behavior"
NCSU News, May 9, 2017
Researchers at North Carolina State University presented their work to develop a large dataset on how group behavior and technology influence decision-making at CHI 2017.

"Father of the Internet: 'AI Stands for Artificial Idiot'"
NextGov.com, May 9, 2017
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, who shared the 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Robert E. Kahn, told attendees at a recent technology summit that modern artificial intelligence systems are only as smart as the people who interact with them.

"New Georgia Tech Research May Help Combat Abusive Online Comments"
Georgia Institute of Technology, May 9, 2017
Georgia Tech research on combating abusive online comments presented at CHI 2017.

"Researchers Unveil New Meter to Help Create Stronger Passwords"
Carnegie Mellon News, May 9, 2017
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago have developed a password meter they say offers real-time feedback and advice to help users create better passwords. They presented their findings at CHI 2017.

"Sorry, Dave, I can't code that: AI's prejudice problem"
The Register (UK), May 8, 2017
USACM Algorithmic Bias Statement and Principles addresses algorithmic bias.

"Jennifer Rexford Announced as the 2017 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient"
NCWIT, May 8, 2017
ACM Fellow and Hopper and Athena Lecturer award recipient Rexford honored for technical and mentoring contributions.

"Expert Rock Climbing Routes Recreated Indoors Using 3D Modeling and Digital Fabrication"
Dartmouth College, May 8, 2017
Researchers presented modeling technique for replicating sections of popular outdoor rock-climbing routes at CHI 2017.

"Virtual Reality Typing Lights Up Ideas and Keyboards"
Michigan Tech News, May 8, 2017
Researchers presented their work on virtual reality text input using head-mounted displays at CHI 2017.

"CMU Creating Touchpads with Can of Spray Paint"
CMU News, May 8, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University researchers present "Electrick," a technology that can turn surfaces into touchpads, at CHI 2017.

"Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Smartwatch with All the Moves"
Dartmouth College, May 8, 2017
Researchers present prototype watch face that moves in five directions at CHI 2017.

"Interactive Display that Knows Where You Are"
Electronics 360, May 7, 2017
Mistform, a technology that allows users to interact with 2D and 3D forms, presented at CHI 2017.

"Shape-Changing Fog Screen Invented"
University of Sussex, May 5, 2017
Researchers present MistForm, a mid-air fog display that enables users to reach through it and interact with 2D and 3D objects, at CHI 2017.

"Red Light, Green Light Invention Prevents Work Interruptions"
UBC News, May 5, 2017
University of British Columbia researchers present FlowLight,a desk light that automatically switches from green to red when a user is "in the zone" and should not be disturbed by co-workers, at CHI 2017.

"A Touchable Tablet to Guide the Visually Impaired"
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, May 5, 2017
EPFL researchers presented the technology at CHI 2017.

"Cornell CIS and Adobe Collaboration Creates AI Photo Tool"
Cornell Chronicle, May 4, 2017
Deep Photo Style Transfer, software that can transpose the look of one photo onto another using neural networks. "What motivated us is the idea that style could be imprinted on a photograph but it is still intrinsically the same photo," says Cornell professor and ACM Transactions on Graphics Editor-in-Chief Kavita Bala.

"Former CRA Board Member Receives 2016 ACM Software System Award"
CRA Bulletin, May 4, 2017
Former CRA Board Member Alfred Z. Spector was named one of the recipients of the 2016 ACM Software System Award as part of a team that developed the Andrew File System.

"Operating Smart Devices From the Space on and Above the Back of Your Hand"
Saarland University, May 3, 2017
Prototype that enables smart-device operation using the back of the hand and the space above it as a control "surface" to be presented at CHI 2017.

"Infosys Foundation USA Commits Funding to Train 1,000 Teachers in Computer Science"
Infosys, May 2, 2017
Infosys Foundation USA is the leading sponsor of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and supports its activities along with ACM.

"When Autonomous Machines Can Do More than Just Vacuum"
Scientific American, May 1, 2017
2012 ACM Hopper Award co-recipient Dina Katabi's exploration of Wi-Fi radio signals as possible tool for physiological readings of humans by domestic robots cited.

"Detecting Walking Speed With Wireless Signals"
MIT News, May 1, 2017
Building on ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Dina Katabi's earlier work on a tool that analyzes signals bounced off of people's bodies, WiGait employs in-home sensors to define changes in walking speed over time.

"This Neural Network Could Make Animations in Games a Little Less Awkward"
TechCrunch, May 1, 2017
University of Edinburgh researchers will present the system in July at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017.

"Athena Lecturer Award for women researchers goes to Rice prof who really gets robots moving"
Network World, April 28, 2017

"Robotics Researcher Named ACM 2017-2018 Athena Lecturer"
CCC Blog, April 26, 2017

"Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award"
Rice University News, April 26, 2017
Trailblazer in robotics research honored for randomized motion-planning algorithms in robotics and for robotics-inspired methods for bioinformatics and biomedicine.

"Silicon Valley’s Finest Are Finally Developing a Code of Ethics"
NextGov, April 21, 2017
Discussion of how ACM is revising its Code of Ethics.

"Setting Standards: AI & Algorithmic Accountability"
Baseline, April 21, 2017
Discussion of ACM’s Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability.

"Alyosha Efros has won the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing"
Berkeley EECS, April 19, 2017
Berkeley associate professor cited for groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision.

"Midwestern Institutions Collaborate on Materials Science Innovation"
UChicago News, April 19, 2017
"The IMaD spoke will build bridges between materials science data sources so that we'll be able to link far more data than anyone has had access to before," says University of Chicago professor Ian Foster, who was part of a team that received the 2001 Gordon Bell Prize.

"Moving past the myths in computer science education"
edscoop, April 11, 2017
ACM Education Board member Allison Derbenwick Miller discusses misconceptions about computer science education.

"Computer scientist Adam Smith wins 2017 Gödel Prize"
Penn State News, April 10, 2017
Penn State professor honored by ACM and EATCS for his 2006 paper, “Calibrating noise to sensitivity in private data analysis.”

"Improving Traffic Safety With a Crowdsourced Traffic Violation Reporting App"
KAIST, April 10, 2017
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology researchers found that crowdsourced traffic violation reportage with smartphone-based continuous video capturing can dramatically change policing activities on the road and will significantly improve traffic safety. They will present their results at CHI 2017.

"Internet Inventor: Make Tech Accessibility Better Already"
CNet, April 10, 2017
Accessibility shouldn't be a "pixie dust" designers sprinkle on as an afterthought, says Google chief Internet evangelist and 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Vint Cerf.

"MKLab Will Present Their Work on Learning to Detect Misleading Content on Twitter and YouTube to ICMR 2017"
Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory, April 6, 2017
Researchers at the Information Technologies Institute's MKLab in Greece have developed a machine-learning algorithm that rates the credibility of tweets. They will present their research at ICMR 2017.

"Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Takes on Chinese Poker Players"
Carnegie Mellon News, April 6, 2017
CMU professor Tuomas Sandholm, who received the 2001 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, hopes to explore various commercial opportunities for their AI in poker and a host of other application areas, ranging from recreational games and business strategy to strategic pricing, cybersecurity, and medicine.

"Why Are UCSD Scientists Disguising Themselves as Empty Car Seats?"
The San Diego Union Tribune, April 4, 2017
UCSD professor Jim Hollan, who received ACM SIGCHI’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Research Award, says road users' interaction with driverless cars is a complicated research issue.

"Learning to Think Like a Computer"
The New York Times, April 4, 2017
Brown University professor Shriram Krishnamurthi, the inaugural winner in 2012 of ACM SIGPLAN's Robin Milner Young Research Award, says this mindset demands reframing research so "instead of formulating a question to a human being, I formulate a question to a dataset." Microsoft's Jeannette M. Wing (ACM Fellow and Distinguished Service Award recipient) put computational thinking into vogue by implying it can be used to improve people's daily lives and reduce stress.

"Airbnb Fans and Critics Both Correct in Home-Sharing Debate, Says Study"
Columbia University, April 4, 2017
Columbia study citing the legitimacy of two seemingly opposing facts about Airbnb, using long-tail frequency distribution, presented at WWW 2017.

"Virginia Tech Researchers: Android Apps Can Conspire to Mine Information From Your Smartphone "
Virginia Tech News, April 3, 2017
Researchers present first-ever large-scale systematic study of how the trusty applications on Android phones are able to talk to one another and trade information at ASIACCS 2017.

"Making America's Power Grid Much, Much Smarter"
Vanderbilt University, March 29, 2017
Researchers working to reinvent and protect the US's power grid to present their first solutions at ICCPS 2017.

"Bill Gropp==Pursuing the Next Big Thing at NCSA"
HPC Wire, March 28, 2017
In an interview, National Center for Supercomputing Applications acting director Bill Gropp says the purpose of the facility "is nothing less than to lead the transformation of all areas of scholarship in making use of advanced computing and data." Gropp is an ACM Fellow and 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award recipient.

"Robots Could Help Children Give Evidence in Child Abuse Cases"
New Scientist, March 22, 2017
Researchers at Mississippi State University want to use robots to help question children in investigations of child abuse, believing they could reduce bias and lead to more reliable outcomes. They presented their work at HRI 2017.

"What It Means to {Codelikeagirl} "
University of Rochester NewsCenter, March 20, 2017
The Building Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) initiative underwrites student attendance at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

"Robot Eavesdrops on Men and Women to See How Much They Talk"
New Scientist, March 16, 2017
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden presented Furhat, a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other, at HRI 2017.

"What If Quantum Computers Used Hard Drives Made of DNA?"
Wired, March 15, 2017
"DNA can store information for a very long time," notes Columbia University's Yaniv Erlich, who received the ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Award for 2008.

"Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2029"
Futurism, March 15, 2017
At the SXSW Conference, Google director of engineering and ACM Fellow Ray Kurzweil (who received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for 1978) predicted the technological singularity==the emergence of human-level computer intelligence==will arrive by 2029.

"Rear Adm. Grace Hopper Continues to Inspire Innovation"
CHIPS, March 15, 2017
Inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the Anita Borg Institute and hold the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

"Experts push paper ballot trail after alleged breach of Georgia data"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 14, 2017
Former USACM Chair Barbara Simons one of 20 computer scientists and security experts calling on Georgia to overhaul its elections system and use paper audit trail.

"New Japanese Supercomputing Project Targets Exascale"
HPC Wire, March 14, 2017
A new supercomputing project in Japan is targeting exascale capacity, and a development team aims to realize the fastest computing speed by June, which would make the computer the third-fastest in the world. ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipient Junichiro Makino says this milestone could have "revolutionary" implications for next-generation supercomputers.

"Women in IT Invited to Apply for WINS Program at SC17 Conference"
HPC Wire, March 13, 2017
Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program at SC17 conference in November aims to expand diversity of SCinet volunteer staff and provide professional development opportunities to highly qualified women in the field of networking.

"How Far Should IT Practitioners Go to Police Corrupt Data?"
Data Breach Today, March 13, 2017
FBI Director James Comey expresses concern about manipulated information at Boston College cybersecurity conference; ACM Code of Ethics cited.

"Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It "
The Guardian, March 11, 2017
World Wide Web pioneer and 1995 ACM Software System Award recipient Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order to sustain the Web as beneficial for everyone.

"Cutting down the clutter in online conversations "
MIT News, March 9, 2017
“Wikum” system from MIT CSAIL researchers provides readers with detailed summaries of online discussions; presented at CSCW 2017.

"5 Female Coders Who Changed the Tech World"
MyInforms, March 9, 2017
Mention of ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, given to outstanding young computer professionals.

"Africa Needs More Women Computer Scientists: How To Make It Happen"
The Huffington Post, March 7, 2017
Blogger writing about African women in computer science mentions hearing Turing Award recipient Shafi Goldwassser speak.

"Data Science at the Frontier: Here Be Dragons"
Upside, March 7, 2017
Brief mention of Claudia Perlich winning the ACM KDD Cup from 2007-2009.

"Smartphone Interruptions: Are Yours Relentless and Annoying?"
Rutgers Today, March 6, 2017
Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a model that can predict a person's receptiveness to smartphone interruptions by incorporating personality traits that could facilitate better notification management. They will present their study at CHI 2017.

"Three Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Engineering"
The Stanford Daily, March 6, 2017
Newell Award recipient Leonidas Guibas among 2017 class.

"Kids Want Parental Help With Online Risk, but Fear Parental Freak Outs "
Penn State News, February 27, 2017
Penn State researchers conducted a study examining how teenagers communicate with their parents about their online behavior. They presented their findings at CSCW 2017.

"Government Sets Sights on AI as Economic Opportunity"
IT Pro, February 27, 2017
The UK governement’s Digital Strategy will begin with an AI review conducted by University of Southampton professor and former ACM president Wendy Hall and BenevolentTech CEO Jerome Pesenti.

"Online Security Apps Focus on Parental Control, Not Teen Self-Regulation"
Penn State News, February 27, 2017
Pennsylvania State University researchers presented a study of 74 Android mobile apps designed to promote adolescent online safety at CSCW 2017.

"Computer scientist Jennifer Widom named dean of Stanford School of Engineering"
Stanford News, February 27, 2017
A distinguished researcher in data and information management, Widom, an ACM Athena Lecturer, is also an innovator in engineering education.

"ACM SIGGRAPH to Sponsor 10 Students to Attend 50-Year Turing Award Celebration"
ACM SIGGRAPH, February 23, 2017

"Jancek’s robot will go where no autonomous Kinect robot has gone before—into the sunlight"
Chicago Tribune, February 23, 2017
Student will present robot that obeys gestures and spoken commands at SIGCSE 2017.

"Julia Hirschberg Elected to the National Academy of Engineering"
EurekAlert, February 23, 2017
ACM Fellow honored with one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer.

"Unfiltered: Instagram Has Become a Haven for People Making Sensitive and Stigmatized Self-Disclosures "
Drexel University, February 23, 2017
Research on how people use Instagram to indicate depression presented at CSCW 2017.

"Hospitable language inspires trust in Airbnb customers"
Cornell Chronicle, February 23, 2017
Paper on “Self-disclosure and Perceived Trustworthiness of Airbnb Host Profiles” presented at CSCW 2017.

"Biology and computers: drawing parallels between immunology and cyber-security"
SC Magazine, February 23, 2017
ACM Allen Newell Award recipient Stephanie Forrest discusses the parallels between computer viruses and biology and how our understanding of them is informing cybersecurity.

"Algorithms' Dark Side: Embedding Bias into Code"
All Analytics, February 22, 2017
ACM's US Public Policy Council (USACM) has been researching the issues that arise in a world in which crucial decisions may be determined by algorithms. It recently released its take on what businesses should use for guidance in its Principles for Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability.

"Dame Wendy Hall Appointed Regius Professor in Computer Science"
University of Southampton, February 22, 2017
Former ACM president Dame Wendy Hall named Chair of Regius Professor in Computer Science at University of Southampton.

"Likelihood of dieting success lies within your tweets"
Science Daily, February 21, 2017
Research to be presented at CSCW 2017 links dieting success with social media attitude.

"Meet Grace Hopper, Whose Name Is Replacing John Calhoun’s at Yale"
Newsweek, February 17, 2017
Yale University is renaming a residential college after Grace Hopper, a computer programming pioneer and Navy officer for whom ACM's Hopper Award is named.

"Lone Star Analysis Modeling Lowers Legal Risks"
Benzinga.com, February 16, 2017
USACM releases 7 principles for algorithmic transparency and accountability.

"ACM US Public Policy Council releases seven principles to handle algorithm biases"
iapp, February 16, 2017
USACM releases 7 principles for algorithmic transparency and accountability.

"Our Health Data Can Save Lives, But We Have to Be Willing to Share"
SingularityHub, February 16, 2017
Report in ACM Interactions cited. http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2015/exploring-personal-data-for-public-good-research

"Research networks ‘more important’ for female scientists"
Times Higher Education, February 16, 2017
Article on importance of female research networks cites International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, a joint event of IEEE and ACM.

"RSA panel covers cryptography trends, elections and more"
TechTarget, February 14, 2017
RSA panel includes Turing Award recipients Adi Shamir and Ron Rivest.

"How ACM & Prestigious Awards Program Drive Education & Innovation in Computing—Featuring Winning Contributions to IT & Computer Science"
HostingAdvice.com, February 14, 2017
World’s largest computing society for research and education turns 70.

"Better Education Essential to National Cybersecurity Workforce"
MeriTalk, February 14, 2017
US government encouraged to leverage ACM’s cybersecurity curriculum guidelines.

"ACM Celebrates 50 Years of Turing Award"
I Programmer, February 13, 2017
ACM’s 50 years of Turing Award celebration highlighted.

"Kean U. student group awarded national funding for women in computing"
NJ.com, February 13, 2017
Kean University (New Jersey) ACM-W student chapter receives grant.

"Code.org Is Drastically Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minorities Taking AP Computer Science"
TechCrunch, February 9, 2017
Code.org says it could more than double the number of underrepresented minorities enrolled in Advanced Placement computer science classes in the US. ACM is a partner of Code.org

"Professional Ethics in Software Development"
ReadITQuik, February 8, 2017
Some guidelines and company-specific codes of conduct have prevailed, such as ACM’s.

"Digital Relay Baton Enables Remote Crowd Cheering of Athletes"
Lancaster University, February 8, 2017
Researchers at Lancaster University have developed a prototype digital relay baton that enables remote spectators to offer encouragement to tired athletes participating in challenging events; it will be presented at CHI 2017.

"ACM SIGGRAPH Seeks Input on Future Direction of Organization and Conference "
ShareCG, February 8, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH seeks input on future of conference.

"AI Systems Are Learning to Communicate With Humans"
Futurism, February 7, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University professor and ACM Fellow Manuela M. Veloso's CoBots research project is designed to further the development of human-robot interaction.

"Stanford Research Shows that Anyone Can Become an Internet Troll"
MyInforms, February 6, 2017
Paper to be presented at CSCW 2017.

"Hackathon helps computer science students’ futures"
The Daily Evergreen, February 6, 2017
Students in Pullman, Washington participate in ACM hackathon.

"Great Innovative Idea==Flexible Road Trains in Autonomous Public Transportation"
Computing Community Consortium, February 2, 2017
International research team’s paper wins prize at ACM SIGPATIAL 2016.

"Israeli Scientist Wins Japan Prize for Cryptography Work"
Times of Israel, February 3, 2017
Turing Award laureate Adi Shamir honored for achievements in cryptography for information security.

"Computing conference to celebrate 50 years of Turing Award"
Network World, February 1, 2017
Twenty "Nobel Prize in Computing" laureates expected to attend June ACM event.

"Here’s What HPC Leaders Say about Trump Travel Ban"
HPC Wire, February 1, 2017
ACM joins thousands of academics, including 50 Nobel laureates, protesting or expressing concern over the ban.

"Tech Can Do More to Help Survivors of Abuse. Here’s Where to Start"
WIRED, February 1, 2017
Research on technologies to help survivors of partner abuse to be presented at CHI 2017.

"Cybersecurity degree a step closer"
ACS Information Age, January 31, 2017
Cybersecurity Curricula 2017 – Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Cybersecurity, produced by the ACM Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education, is the first draft of the first set of global curricular guidelines in cybersecurity.

"Researchers now know the words that make you sound credible (or phony) on Twitter"
TechGig, January 31, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers believe they can identify the words and phrases that lend credibility to Twitter posts about specific events; research to be presented at CSCW 2017.

"Academics Mull Boycott of U.S. Conferences as a Way of Fighting Travel Ban"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2017
“Science is intended to be free and open, and any place that restricts the travel of scientists to present their work is a problem,” says ACM Senior Member Emery Berger.

"Optimizing Code: Modifying the "middle end" of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs"
MIT News, January 30, 2017
MIT researchers will present a modified version of a popular open source compiler that optimizes prior to adding the code needed for parallel execution at PPoPP 2017 symposium. MIT professor Charles E. Leiserson, who received the 2013 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and the 2014 ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award, says the compiler "now optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open source compiler."

"Millions of tweets analyzed to measure perceived trustworthiness"
PhysOrg, January 27, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers’ work to be presented at CSCW 2017.

"China can help drive global progress in quantum computing"
ZDNet, January 26, 2017
China has begun investing in quantum technology and is at a similar starting point with other economic powers in this field, says Shanghai-born ACM A.M. Turing Award winner Andrew Yao.

"Your (Social Media) Votes Matter"
Notre Dame News, January 24, 2017
A study by a University of Notre Dame professor published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology demonstrates how a single up/down vote on Reddit dictates the content users see on the site.

"Mummy visualization impresses in computer journal"
Science Daily, January 23, 2017
Communications of the ACM article describes use of visualization technology developed at Linköping University that allows visitors to the British Museum to reveal the murder of mummified Geberlein Man 5,500 years ago.

"HiPEAC Vision Report Advocates Reinvention of Computing"
Inside HPC, January 23, 2017
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization editor-in-chief Koen De Bosschere is coordinator of the HiPEAC network.

"Faster Websites With Fewer Bugs"
MIT News, January 20, 2017
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab presented a new system that automatically manages database query caching for Web applications written in Ur/Web at POPL 2017.

"Alibaba Cloud selected as organizer of KDD Cup 2017"
The Tech Revolutionist, January 19, 2017
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has been selected as the organizer of KDD Cup 2017, an event of ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

"One in five adults secretly access their friends’ Facebook accounts"
Indo-Canadian Voice, January 19, 2017
Research showing 1 in 5 people can access friends’ Facebook accounts to be presented at CHI 2017.

"R|P 2012: Perceiving the World Through the Eyes of a Robot – Radu Rusu, CEO of Open Perception Inc"
Robot News, January 18, 2017
Robotics company CEO visits University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ACM Student Chapter.

"Cambridge University Press to revolutionize computer science teaching to make young learners ready for digital age"
India Education Diary, January 17, 2017
ACM co-organizes computational thinking workshop in India.

"What happens when an algorithm is sexist? New guidelines seek accountability"
IT World Canada, January 17, 2017
USACM Statement on Algorithmic Accountability lists principles designed to help prevent bias in computer algorithms.

"Google Brain Team Prepares for Machine-Learning-Driven Future"
SD Times, January 13, 2017
Google Brain's Jeff Dean, who shared the 2012 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences (now the ACM Prize in Computing) with Sanjay Ghemawat, says last year the team demonstrated new methods for improving people's lives with advanced software systems.

"Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable"
The Louisiana Weekly, January 9, 2017
"If you have two populations that have unequal base rates, then you can't satisfy both definitions of fairness at the same time," notes Cornell University professor and 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation in the Computing Sciences Award recipient Jon Kleinberg.

"QU student selected as an ACM SIGIR representative at the 50-Year Celebration of the ACM Turing Award"
Qatar Is Booming, January 9, 2017
Computer Science PhD student Maram Hasanain at Qatar University College of Engineering has been selected among 10 students from all over the world to represent ACM’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) at the 50-year celebration of the ACM Turing Award, which will be held in June.

"Big Data's Unexplored Frontier: Recorded Music"
Motherboard, January 8, 2017
Researchers at University College London Discuss Digital Music Lab in ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.

"Move over Bitcoin==MIT Cryptographer Silvio Micali and His Public Ledger ALGORAND…the Future of Blockchain?"
Blockchain News, January 5, 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Silvio Micali recently published a paper describing a decentralized and secure way to manage a shared ledger that provides a solution to the Byzantine General's problem.

"Most Computer Science Majors in the U.S. Are Men. Not So at Harvey Mudd"
Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2017
"Building confidence and a sense of belonging and a sense of community among these women makes such a huge difference," says Harvey Mudd president Maria Klawe, a former president of ACM.

"BigGIS: A Continuous Refinement Approach to Master Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Spatio-Temporal Big Data"
CCC Blog, January 4, 2017
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany researchers authored a paper than won an award in the Computing Community Consortium-sponsored Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems.

"Man vs. AI Machine in Texas Hold'em Matchup"
Computerworld, January 4, 2017
"Poker...poses a far more difficult challenge...as it requires a machine to make extremely complicated decisions based on incomplete information while contending with bluffs, slow play, and other ploys," says CMU professor Tuomas Sandholm, recipient in 2001 of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award.

"Green Is the New Black"
Asian Scientist, January 3, 2017
Satoshi Matsuoka, lead architect of the KFC project (and recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011), is working with the Japanese government's 2020 Post-K program to develop exascale supercomputers.

"The Next Supercomputing Superpower==Chinese Technology Comes of Age"
Asian Scientist, January 3, 2017
Stony Brook University professor Deng Yuefan says China’s investment in supercomputers is evident in the use of Sunway TaihuLight by three of the six finalists for the 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, including the winning team, at the SC16 conference.

"Study: Carpooling Apps Could Reduce Traffic 3x"
MIT News, January 3, 2017
MIT researchers say they have developed an algorithm that found 3,000 four-passenger cars could serve 98 percent of taxi demand in New York City. "The system is particularly suited to autonomous cars, since it can continuously reroute vehicles based on real-time requests," says MIT professor and ACM Distinguished Member Daniela Rus.

 

"Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning"
IEEE Spectrum, December 29, 2016
William Dally, recipient in 2010 of the ACM/IEEE Eckert–Mauchly Award, notes software advances can quickly make hardware obsolete.

"Synching data center computers at the speed of light"
Cornell Chronicle, December 15, 2016
Research on synching data center timing presented at SIGCOMM 2016.

"A Vision for Micro and Macro Location Aware Services"
CCC Blog, December 14, 2016
Proposal for micro and macro location-aware services honored at Computing Community Consortium's Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at SIGSPATIAL 2016.

"A Brief History of Data Science"
Dataversity, December 14, 2016
In 1989, the Knowledge Discovery in Databases, which would mature into the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, organized its first workshop.

"A Blueprint for Getting More Women into Information Technology"
The Economist, December 12, 2016
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe, a former president of ACM, has drafted a blueprint for correcting gender biases, mainly by removing intimidation in classrooms and barring all notions that some people are better at computer science than others.

"CEO Questions Ethical Computing Future"
The Oredigger (Colorado School of Mines), December 12, 2016
At a computer science colloquium, ACM CEO Bobby Schnabel describes evolution of CS in relation to society and challenges audience of students and professors to consider ethical implications of this development.

"Diversifying Tech Is Goal of Student Group"
College of Charleston, December 9, 2016
As a newly chartered member of ACM's Women in Computing (ACM-W), the student chapter will now have the ability to engage a more diverse range of speakers who are doing more diverse research.

"Foiling cyberattackers with rerandomization"
MIT News, December 9, 2016
New cybersecurity technique published in proceedings of CCS 2016.

"Microsoft, Code.Org Target Beginner Coders with Minecraft Program"
The Guardian, December 9, 2016
Microsoft and Code.org have released a new tutorial for Hour of Code, an annual campaign held during Computer Science Education Week to encourage more students to develop an interest in coding. ACM is a partner in Code.org.

"Two-Day Conference: Shedding Light on Computing and Information Sciences Research"
The Express Tribune (Pakistan), December 7, 2016
To encourage students to conduct research, publish their papers in international journals and learn from seasoned academics on how to research, the PAF Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PAF-KIET) organized a two-day international conference on computing and information sciences that was hosted by ACM and PAF-KIET.

"17 Microsoft Researchers Offer Bold Computer Science Predictions for 2017 and 2027"
GeekWire, December 5, 2016
Seventeen female Microsoft researchers, including ACM’s Susan Dumais, Kathryn McKinley, Jennifer Chayes, and Karin Strauss offered their views on what they believe is in store for their fields next year and a decade later.

"A Handful of Photos Yields a Mouthful of (Digital) Teeth"
EurekAlert, December 5, 2016
Disney researchers have developed a model-based method of realistically reconstructing teeth for digital actors and for medical applications. They researchers presented their method at the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 conference. https://sa2016.siggraph.org/en/

"New 'Printone' Tool Allows Users to Create 3D Printed Wind Instruments in Any Shape or Form"
Dartmouth College, December 5, 2016
Dartmouth College researchers have developed Printone, an interactive design tool enabling users to create functional 3D-printed wind instruments in any shape or form using interactive sound simulation feedback. The tool was presented at the at the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 conference.

"3 Things to Celebrate in Honor of Computer Science Education Week"
EdTech Magazine, December 5, 2016
CSEdWeek has been a joint effort of organizations including ACM.

"Reading on tablets can hamper your creativity"
Femina, December 4, 2016
Study was published in ACM CHI 2016 proceedings.

"Prof Venugopal conferred with 'ACM Distinguished Educator' honour"
WebIndia123, December 2, 2016
K R Venugopal receives ACM Advanced Member Grade recognition.

"Games researcher Katherine Isbister honored by Association for Computing Machinery"
University of California Santa Cruz, December 1, 2016
ACM names Katherine Isbister a Distinguished Scientist.

"The Biggest Challenge to Diversifying Tech Talent"
CNet, November 30, 2016
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe, a former president of ACM, says a 1-percent increase in female or minority headcount at tech companies usually reflects a lack of serious effort, which leads to demoralization.

"How to Protect Your Laptop--Even When It's Asleep"
Concordia University News, November 23, 2016
Researchers at Canada's Concordia University have developed Hypnoguard, software that safeguards data even when a computer is in sleep mode. The team presented its research at CCS 2016.

"Supercomputing Conference a Glimpse into Future of Mainstream Computing"
Forbes, November 23, 2016
New trends that have been building for the past couple of years at SC conferences include AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Liquid Cooling.

" Overclocked smartwatch sensor uses vibrations to sense gestures, objects and locations"
TechCrunch, November 21, 2016
Best Paper at ACM UIST Symposium uses smartwatch sensors to sense gestures.

"ACM Prize in Computing is the new name of honor for young innovators"
Network World, November 21, 2016
ACM has changed the name of its annual award recognizing computing professionals for early-to-mid-career innovations from the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award to the ACM Prize in Computing, and boosted the value of the prize by $75K.

"Chinese supercomputer project wins top int'l prize"
China.org.cn, November 18, 2016
Gordon Bell Prize honors Chinese research team for application running on China's fastest supercomputer.

"Tiny WiFi radio could get us closer to Internet of Things"
Futurity, November 18, 2016
Tiny energy efficient radio presented at ACM Sensys Conference.

"More Than Animation: Software Supports Animated Storytelling"
EurekAlert, November 17, 2016
Disney Research has developed CANVAS, a computer-assisted tool for creating narratives, and Story World Builder, a graphical platform in which people can create "story worlds" populated with characters and props. Researchers presented CANVAS at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.

"ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowship Winners to Be Recognized at SC16 "
HPC Wire, November 16, 2016
Intel and ACM SIGHPC, the special interest group for high-performance computing, announced the winners of their first Computational and Data Science Fellowship program over the summer, and the recipients were formally recognized at the SC16 awards ceremony.

"Enabling Wireless Virtual Reality"
MIT News, November 14, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed MoVR, a prototype wireless virtual reality system for gamers. They presented their findings at the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2016).

"Martha E. Pollack Named Cornell's 14th President"
Cornell University, November 14, 2016
ACM Fellow Martha Pollack named Cornell President, effective April 17, 2017.

"Inclusion of the ACM Prize in Computing recipients increases number of HLF Laureates"
IDW (Germany), November 14, 2016
ACM Prize recipients to be included in Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

"Top Ten Things to Love about HPC and the SC16 Conference"
Inside HPC, November 13, 2016
Top 10 characteristics of SC16, the largest HPC trade show of the year.

"Your body reveals your password by interfering with Wi-Fi"
The Register (UK), November 13, 2016
Paper published in CCS 2016 proceedings shows that your password can be snooped when you’re using WiFi.

"The Network Standard Used in Cars Is Wide Open to Attack"
Motherboard, November 12, 2016
Research presented at CCS 2016 shows modern automobiles are open to attack.

"The Fun Work of Technology Crystal Ball Gazing at SC16"
HPC Wire, November 10, 2016
ACM’s International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16) will feature the first International Workshop on Post-Moore Era Supercomputing (PMES). Another panel, led by Jeffrey Vetter, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Future Technology Group and recipient of the 2010 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, will further explore the ideas generated at that workshop.

"New Organization Reprograms Old Group: Women Try to Diversify Computer Science Field within College Community"
College of William and Mary, November 8, 2016
Reactivated ACM-W Chapter at the College of William and Mary.

"Unlocking Big Genetic Datasets"
Columbia University Data Science Institute, November 8, 2016
"You don't have to painstakingly go through all the points each time to update your model," says Columbia professor David Blei, recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences (now the ACM Prize in Computing).

"SC16: Taking Diversity and Inclusivity Seriously"
HPC Wire, November 8, 2016
Interview with John West, SC16 chair, and Trish Damkroger, chair of the Diverse HPC Workforce committee.

"Online Password Guessing Threat Underestimated"
Lancaster University, November 7, 2016
Researchers have created different guessing frameworks that prioritize the order of guessing based on attackers having access to different types of personal information. The research was presented at CCS 2016.

"Millimeter Waves Travel More than 10 Kilometers in Rural Virginia 5G Experiment"
IEEE Spectrum, November 7, 2016
New York University srtudents’ findings presented at MobiCom 2016.

"System opens up high-performance programming to nonexperts"
Scienmag, November 7, 2016
MIT researchers present new systems that allow more people to use high performance computing at SPLASH 2016.

"Faster Programs, Easier Programming"
MIT News, November 7, 2016
Researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University have developed Bellmania, a system enabling users to describe what they want their computer programs to do in generalized terms. They presented the system at SPLASH 2016.

"Precision Medicine Is Next Frontier in HPC at SC16"
Inside HPC, November 5, 2016
Renowned panel to examine the state of precision medicine at SC16.

"Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target"
The New York Times, November 3, 2016
The Internet of Things could prove highly vulnerable to cyberattackers, according to a new study from researchers at Canada's Dalhousie University and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. "Even the best Internet defense technologies would not stop such an attack," warns cryptographer and study co-author Adi Shamir, co-recipient of the 2002 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

"Internet-Based and Open Source: How E-Voting Works around the Globe"
Ars Technica, November 3, 2016
Former ACM president Barbara Simons cites the uncertainty of Estonia's Internet-based voting system's legitimacy because its government has never performed post-election auditing.

"Computer Science/STEM Leaders Explain How to Spark STEM Interest in Youth"
HPC Wire, November 1, 2016
With discrimination discouraging women and minorities from pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the time is ripe to encourage interest in today's youth, according to scientists leading the SC16 conference.

" Changing the Face of the SC Conference Series: An Interview with SC16 General Chair John West"
Inside HPC, October 31, 2016
John West discusses his top goals for SC16. 

"Boffins Predict Web Scams With Domain Registration Data"
The Register (UK), October 31, 2016
Researchers presented paper on algorithm designed to analyze domain name registration behavior so it can accurately predict which names will likely be used to run online scams at CCS 2016.

"Making energy-harvesting computers reliable"
PhysOrg, October 28, 2016
Computers that harvest energy from the environment to be presented at SPLASH 2016.

"New tool detects malicious websites before they cause harm"
Scienmag, October 27, 2016
New tool to detect malicious websites presented at CCS 2016.

"Researchers Find Weakness in Common Computer Chip"
Binghamton University, October 25, 2016
Researchers presented paper outlining several ways to mitigate attacks on Haswell CPUs at IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-49).

"Experts on AI: Research Fellow at Google "
IDG Connect, October 28, 2016
Jeff Dean, ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recipient, discusses AI’s annoyances, breakthroughs, ethical implications, and more. This year, ACM celebrates 50 years of the ACM Turing Award.

"Experts on AI: Robotics Professor from Carnegie Mellon"
IDG Connect, October 28, 2016
Raj Reddy, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award (which now celebrates 50 years), answers important questions on AI’s present and future.

"From the Turing Test to Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence Goes Mainstream"
Computer Business Review, October 28, 2016
In celebration of 50 years of the ACM Turing Award, renowned computer scientist and ACM member Melanie Mitchell spoke to CBR about artificial intelligence—the biggest breakthroughs, hurdles and myths surrounding the technology.

"The Gender Gap in Tech Is Getting Worse but It's Fixable"
CIO, October 26, 2016
A study from Accenture and Girls Who Code presented at last week's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing points to an exacerbation of the information technology (IT) gender gap in the US.

"Making It Easier to Collaborate on Code"
MIT News, October 25, 2016
MIT researchers have developed an interface that addresses many of the core problems of the powerful open source tool Git. The research will be presented at SPLASH 2016.

"NSF Grant to Increase Computer Science Graduates in Florida"
FIU News, October 24, 2016
"This grant will support our commitment to those students at risk of dropping out of college when they are within striking distance of graduation," says FIU professor Mark Weiss, recipient of the 2015 ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.

"Quantifying Urban Revitalization"
MIT News, October 24, 2016
Researchers have developed a method of scoring the safety, affluence, and liveliness of urban areas by judging images captured around several major cities. They presented their work at the ACM Multimedia Conference (ACMMM 2016).

"This Sock Grants Sensation to Prosthetic Feet"
Newscaf, October 23, 2016
Sock that Provides Sensation to Prosthetic Feet Unveiled at UIST 2016.

"Smartwatch that can detect objects, read activities"
Qatar Tribune, October 22, 2016
New functionality presented at UIST 2016 makes possible new applications that use common gestures to control the smartwatch and, ultimately, other objects connected through the Internet of Things.

"One-Inch Robots Swarm to Accomplish Complex Tasks"
ECN Magazine, October 21, 2016
Robots using “swarm user interface” technique to do intricate tasks showcased at UIST 2016.

"Q+A: Real Help for ‘Fake Smiles’ on Instagram"
Drexel University, October 21, 2016
Study to be presented at CSCW 2017 looks at how people reveal depression, emotions on Instagram.

"Hold That Yak: NYU Researchers Discover Clues for Identifying Yik Yak Users on College Campuses"
New York University, October 19, 2016
Researchers who say they have broken the anonymity features in Yik Yak, an anonymous social media application, will present their findings at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2016).

"Study Finds 'Lurking Malice' in Cloud Hosting Services"
Georgia Tech News Center, October 19, 2016
Up to 10 percent of the repositories held by cloud hosting services have been compromised, according to a study by researchers, who presented their study at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016).

"Grace Hopper Conference Spotlights Women in Tech"
U.S. News & World Report , October 18, 2016
Careers, research, and networking are the focus this week at the 16th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), which ACM sponsors along with several other organizations.

"Groups Issue Blueprint for Teaching Computer Science in All Grades"
Education Week, October 17, 2016
ACM and other groups release framework for what K-12 students should know about CS and what they should be able to do in the field.

"Making Computer Science Accessible to All Students"
EdSource, October 16, 2016
The first national consensus document on computer science education, the K-12 Computer Science Framework, was initiated by Code.org and guided by ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, the National Math and Science Initiative, and the Cyber Innovation Center.

"Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM Leaders on Challenges for AI and Their AI Partnership"
IEEE Spectrum, October 13, 2016
"We will have to design [AIs] with cybersecurity in mind, and keeping in mind the sub-society of the Internet," says Microsoft's Jeannette Wing, an ACM Fellow.

"Just Give Me Some Privacy—Anonymous Wikipedia Editors and Tor Users Explain Why They Don't Want You to Know Who They Are"
Drexel Now, October 12, 2016
The reasons Internet users turn to Internet Protocol obfuscation to protect their privacy are explored in a new study by Drexel University researchers to be presented in February at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017).

"NSF-Funded Hubs Power Big Data Project 'Spokes'"
Campus Technology, October 11, 2016
"The [big data] spokes advance the goals and regional priorities of each [big data] hub, fusing the strengths of a range of institutions and investigators and applying them to problems that affect the communities and populations within their regions," says NSF's Jim Kurose, an ACM Fellow.

"Designing for 3D Printing"
MIT News, October 11, 2016
MIT researchers to present Foundry, a system for custom designing 3D printed objects using mixed materials, at UIST 2016.

"GUEST BLOG: Women in tech will grow alongside digital"
Computer Weekly, October 11, 2016
ACM President Vicki Hanson on how women are helping to redefine computing.

"China honors computer scientist John Hopcroft"
Cornell Chronicle, October 3, 2016
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Hopcroft received China’s highest honor, the Friendship Award, which is given each year to 50 foreign experts.

"ACM President Vicki Hanson to open Golisano College Dean’s Lecture Series Oct. 14"
RIT News, October 3, 2016
Rochester Institute of Technology Distinguished Professor to discuss human-computer interaction and technology accessibility

"Infosys Foundation USA, ACM, and CSTA Announce Awards for Teaching Excellence in CS"
Computer Science Teachers Association, October 3, 2016
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and Infosys Foundation announced the rollout of the Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science, which will allocate up to 10 annual awards of up to $10,000 each, with funding provided by Infosys.

"UVA Computer Science Professor Applies Genetic Engineering Principles to Cybersecurity"
UVA Today, October 3, 2016
Researchers at the universities of Virginia and New Mexico have developed Double Helix, a cybersecurity system based on structured diversity. This type of system creates several functionally equivalent versions of a mission-critical system, but adjusts the binary code of some of the clones so the properties needed for successful attacks are missing, says University of Virginia professor and ACM Fellow Jack Davidson.

"IU School of Informatics and Computing recognizes inaugural Schnabel Scholars"
IU Bloomington Newsroom, October 3, 2016
Indiana University scholarship program is named in honor of ACM CEO Bobby Schnabel, who served as dean of the IU School of Informatics and Computing from 2007 to 2015.

"A League of Extraordinary Machines: First Steps to Autonomous Reasoning Systems"
Langley Research Center, October 3, 2016
University of Virginia CS professor and ACM Fellow Jack Davidson to give talk on autonomous cyber reasoning systems at NASA Langley Research Center.

"SC16 Releases Latest Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. Tamara Kolda"
HPC Wire, September 30, 2016
ACM Distinguished Scientist Tamara Kolda of Sandia National Labs to give talk at SC16.

"Connecting Data Scientists with Regional Challenges"
National Science Foundation, September 28, 2016
NSF’s Jim Kurose (an ACM Fellow) says Big Data Spokes projects funded by NSF will fuse the strengths of a range of institutions and investigators and apply them to problems that affect the communities and populations within their regions.

"IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip Tested for Deep Learning"
IEEE Spectrum, September 27, 2016
Milestone achieved by IBM's TrueNorth computer chip “provides a palpable proof-of-concept that the efficiency of brain-inspired computing can be merged with the effectiveness of deep learning, paving the path towards a new generation of chips and algorithms with even greater efficiency and effectiveness," says IBM's Dharmendra Modha, 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipient.

"Secure Passwords Can Be Sent through Your Body, Instead of Air"
Newswise, September 27, 2016
New method for sending passwords through the body presented at UbiComp 2016.

"Efforts to Bring Computer Science to All Students Make Progress"
eSchool News, September 26, 2016
In addition to the national CSforAll initiative, there are several regional initiatives. ACM is a member of the CSforAll Consortium steering committee.

"5 Tech Trends That Have Turing Award Winners Worried"
Computerworld, September 23, 2016
A panel of ACM A.M. Turing Award winners convened at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany to discuss technology trends they find troubling.

"Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different"
Computerworld, September 23, 2016
Speaking at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf said he would change a few things about Internet’s creation if he could do it again.

"From Tim Berners-Lee to Kim Dotcom: A Who's Who of Internet 2.0 Innovators"
V3.co.uk, September 22, 2016
Internet mavericks and pioneers including ACM Software System Award recipient Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Google chief Internet evangelist and former ACM president Vint Cerf met in June for the first Decentralized Web Summit with a mission to "re-decentralize" the Web to return it to being a free and open network for secure information exchange and storage.

"NYU theoretical computer scientist among seven MacArthur 'genius' grant winners in New York"
Crain's New York Business, September 22, 2016
ACM Doctoral Disseration Award recipient and Distinguished member Subhash Khot joins 23 MacArthur Fellows.

"The Push for Computer Science to Be Added to School Curriculums"
TechVibes, September 22, 2016
According to ACM, only 14 states actually have computer science standards at their secondary schools.

"Identifying Children and Saving Lives One Thumbprint at a Time"
MSU Today, September 21, 2016
"Whether in a developing nation, refugee camp, homeless shelter or, heaven forbid, a kidnapping situation, a child's identity could be verified if they had their fingerprint scanned at birth and included in a registry," says Michigan State University professor and ACM Fellow Anil Jain.

"This Crazy MIT Device Knows When You’re Happy or Sad"
Boston Magazine, September 20, 2016
MIT device to debut at MobiCom 2016.

"Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed"
Quanta Magazine, September 20, 2016
"You're writing down a mathematical formula that describes the program's behavior and using some sort of proof checker that's going to check the correctness of that statement," says Microsoft Research's Bryan Parno, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient. Programming languages and proof-assistant programs such as Coq and Isabelle have done much to mitigate the burden of formal verification, while the push for its adoption has gathered traction with the advent of the Internet and its security weaknesses, says Princeton University professor and ACM Fellow Andrew Appel.

"UF president to be appointed to National Science Board"
Capital Soup, September 19, 2016
ACM Fellow Kent Fuchs named to National Science Board.

"Hardware Hack Defeats iPhone Passcode Security"
BBC News, September 19, 2016
The work shows law enforcement agencies should not look for software backdoors to help their investigations, but should develop or cultivate hardware and computer security skills, says Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty member and ACM Fellow Susan Landau.

"Gordon Bell Prize Winners Simulate Earth’s Mantle"
IBM Systems Magazine, September 2016
2015 Gordon Bell Prize recipients recognized for most realistic simulation of earth’s interior dynamics.

"Women Break Barriers in Engineering and Computer Science at Some Top Colleges"
The Washington Post, September 16, 2016
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe, former president of ACM, cautions the systematic exclusion of women from such fields still exists, and it is mainly more unconscious than conscious.

"Five Women Receive Leadership Excellence Awards at the Diversity Symposium Reception"
Georgia Tech, September 16, 2016
ACM Fellow Elizabeth Mynatt recognized.

"NSF Awards $25M in New Projects in Support of the Computer Science for All Initiative"
CCC Blog, September 14, 2016
NSA announced more than $25 million in awards for the Computer Science for All initiative, whose goal is to facilitate thorough and engaging CS education in schools across the US. ACM and CSTA are part of the CSforAll Consortium.

"Seven Women in IT Chosen to Get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing World’s Fastest Computer Network—SCinet"
Yahoo! Finance, September 14, 2016
At SC16, they’ll get hands-on experience building world’s fastest computer network.

"Can the 2016 Election Be Hacked or Disrupted? Congress Listens to Tech Experts"
AlterNet, September 14, 2016
Former ACM President and USACM Council member Barbara Simons testifies before Congress on security of elections.

" CSNYC Launches National Computer Science Education Consortium"
CSNYC, September 14, 2016
ACM and the New York City Foundation for Computer Science Education (CSNYC) are part of the CSforAll Steering Committee.

"New Progress and Momentum in Support of President Obama’s Computer Science for All Initiative"
EdNET Insight, September 14, 2016
ACM Part of CSforAll Steering Committee.

"Leonard Kleinrock Receives Test of Time Award for Pioneering Research"
UCLA Newsroom, September 13, 2016
ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award recognizes Kleinrock for research paper that made pioneering contribution to wireless technology.

"Q+A With the First Female Director of MIT's Largest Research Lab"
Forbes, September 12, 2016
In an interview, ACM Fellow Daniela Rus discusses her objectives and the digital revolution as the first female director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

"App vs. Website: Which Best Protects Your Privacy? It Depends"
News@Northeastern, September 12, 2016
Northeastern University researchers investigated the degree to which free applications and Web-based services on Android and iOS mobile devices leak personally identifiable information to advertisers and data analytics companies. They will present their findings at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2016) in November.

"Building a country of world’s best programmers"
Financial Express (India), September 12, 2016
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) mentioned as “Olympics of Programming.”

"Analyzing the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum"
Scienmag, September 9, 2016
Panel discussion with leading researchers at HLF 2016 will cover current scientific trends in AI and its applications.

"Life after Fitbit: Appealing to Those Who Feel Guilty vs. Free"
University of Washington, September 8, 2016
UbiComp 2016 paper examines how Fitbit design might keep people from lapsing in their fitness routines.

"New service improves cloud storage usage on mobile devices"
Science News, September 8, 2016
New service that improves cloud storage usage on mobile devices recently unveiled at ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2016).

"Carnegie Mellon algorithm detects online fraudsters"
Scienmag, September 8, 2016
Best Paper at ACM SIGKDD 2016 presents new method for determining if someone has faked Amazon or Yelp review.

"Smartphone Hacks 3D Printer by Measuring ‘Leaked’ Energy and Acoustic Waves"
Newswise, September 7, 2016
Study showing ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry make them an ideal tool to steal sensitive data from 3D printers to be presented at ACM Communications and Security Conference (CCS 2016).

"Science Makes First Study of Know-It-All Internet Commenters"
The Stack, September 5, 2016
The first study of intransigent commenters in social networks has been conducted via a method developed by researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft. Among the knowledge tasks set up by Stanford's Ethan Fast and Microsoft's Eric Horvitz (2015 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient) was determining whether dogmatic commenters are uniformly stubborn across a range of subjects.

"How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence"
The New York Times, September 1, 2016
Microsoft researcher and 2015 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient Eric Horvitz sponsors a Stanford University group that issued a report underscoring the value of the industry effort to establish an ethical standard for AI development.

"Stanford-Hosted Study Examines How AI Might Affect Urban Life in 2030"
Stanford News, September 1, 2016
AI100 standing committee chair and 2009 ACM AAAI-Allen Newell Award recipient Barbara Grosz says AI technologies can be reliable and yield a wide spectrum of benefits.

"Data Science vs Crime: Detecting Pickpocket Suspects from Transit Records"
KDnuggets, September 1, 2016
Research on detecting pickpocket suspects from transit records presented at ACM SIGKDD 2016.

"Who Would Win the Coding Olympics?"
The Washington Post, August 30, 2016
Russian and Chinese coders continue to triumph at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, where St. Petersburg University beat out Harvard University this year.

"Here's How Russian Hackers Could Actually Tip an American Election"
The Washington Post , August 30, 2016
Voting technology experts such as Princeton University researcher and ACM Fellow Andrew Appel have long warned of endemic insecurity in US election systems, including hackers' ability to delete or alter data on voter rolls to manipulate electoral outcomes.

"UC Berkeley Launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence"
Berkeley News, August 29, 2016
"People are highly varied in their values and far from perfect in putting them into practice," notes Stuart Russell, an AI expert (and recipient of the 2005 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award), who will lead the new center. "These aspects cause problems for a robot trying to learn what it is that we want and to navigate the often-conflicting desires of different individuals."

"Researchers find vulnerabilities in iPhone, iPad operating system"
Science Daily, August 25, 2016
Security vulnerabilities in iPhones and iPads will be explored at ACM Communications and Security (CCS) Conference.

Coverage of SC16:

"SCinet Preps World’s Fastest Network Infrastructure at SC16"
Inside HPC, August 27, 2016
High-capacity network supports applications at SC16.

"Computer science team to solve large-scale network problems"
Purdue University, August 25, 2016
Purdue University team designing algorithms, software for massive networks to present research at SC16.

"Finalists Compete for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize in HPC"
HPC Wire, August 23, 2016
Six outstanding research efforts in high performance technical computing have been selected as finalists in supercomputing’s most prestigious competition, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. The $10,000 prize will be presented to a single winner in November during SC16.

"The Hype--and Hope--of Artificial Intelligence"
The New Yorker, August 26, 2016
ACM Distinguished Scientist and ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Editor-in-Chief Michelle Zhou breaks down A.I. into three stages: recognition intelligence, cognitive intelligence, and virtual human beings, which we are admittedly a long way from creating.

"Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in iPhone, iPad Operating System"
NCSU News, August 25, 2016
An international team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has identified security vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS operating system. They will present their work CCS 2016 in October.

" Using Data to Better Understand Climate Change"
National Science Foundation, August 23, 2016
University of Minnesota-led research team is using data-driven approaches to better understand the environmental and social impacts of climate change. 2012 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award recipient Vipin Kumar discussed some of the team's machine learning and data mining advances during a keynote speech at SIGIR 2016.

Coverage of ACM SIGCOMM 2016:

"Extending Battery Life for Mobile Devices"
University of Massachusetts Amherst, August 26, 2016
Researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst introduced new radio technology that allows small mobile devices to take advantage of battery power in larger devices nearby at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Team Introduces 'Braidio' Technology, Lets Mobile Devices Share Power"
PhysOrg and Computerworld, August 25, 2016
MIT researchers introduce new WiFi technology that lets mobile devices share power at SIGCOMM 2016.

"MIT is dragging hard-wired network chips into the agile era"
Techworld, August 24, 2016
MIT group introduces more programmable chips at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Programmable Network Routers: New design should enable much more flexible traffic management, without sacrificing speed"
MIT News, August 23, 2016
Researchers from MIT and and five other organizations have designed programmable routers that can keep pace with the speeds of modern data networks, as detailed in two papers presented at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Solving Network Congestion"
MIT News, August 23, 2016
MIT Researchers present MegaMIMO 2.0, a system they say can transfer wireless data at twice the range of existing systems and three times faster, at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Scientists develop method to transmit data from body implants to cellphones"
Global News (Canada), August 18, 2016
University of Washington researchers' new method that allows devices such as contact lenses, brain implants and credit cards to communicate with cellphones and wearable tech, converting Bluetooth signals into WiFi, to be presented at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Interscatter enables first implanted devices, contact lenses, credit cards to 'talk' WiFi"
ScienceDaily, August 17, 2016
Promising developments for implanted devices to be explored at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Interscatter Communication Enables First-Ever Implanted Devices, Smart Contact Lenses, Credit Cards That 'Talk' Wi-Fi"
UW Today, August 17, 2016
University of Washington (UW) researchers' interscatter communication method that enables brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards, and smaller wearables to exchange data with smartphones, watches, and other everyday gadgets is presented at SIGCOMM 2016.

"Harvey Mudd College Took on Gender Bias and Now More Than Half Its Computer-Science Majors Are Women"
Quartz, August 22, 2016
The school emphasizes teaching over research, hiring and rewarding professors on the basis of their classroom performance, says former ACM president Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd's president since 2006.

"Stanford Hosts AI Camp for Girls"
Campus Technology, August 16, 2016
Harvey Mudd College President and former ACM president Maria Klawe was part of a panel that answered students’ questions at Stanford’s summer program to introduce high school girls to artificial intelligence.

"22 world’s best computer scientists, mathematicians for Heidelberg Forum"
Daily Trust (Africa), August 15, 2016
ACM A.M. Turing Laureates and other luminaries to inspire young researchers at 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany next month.

"There's a New Way to Make Strong Passwords, and It's Way Easier"
The Washington Post, August 11, 2016
US Federal Trade Commission chief technologist and USACM member Lorrie Cranor says NIST's draft rules are an indication to agencies and companies that the retooled password guidelines have the federal government's approval.

"Get Experience at Top Tech Companies as a Teenager"
US News & World Report, August 8, 2016
One high school computer science teacher pointed to ACM's careers website as a particularly good resource for learning about different computer science-related degrees and what careers they lead to.

"Katherine Frase Selected as Keynote Speaker for SC 16"
IT Briefing, August 2, 2016
Katharine Frase, who leads strategy and business development for IBM's Watson Education unit, has been selected as the SC16 keynote speaker and will deliver her talk on November 15 at ACM's supercomputing conference.

"2016 ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship Winners Announced"
HPC Wire, July 29, 2016
The winning students will receive travel support to the SC16 conference in November, where they will be recognized at an awards ceremony.

"Andrew Lumsdaine on Computing Trends at PASC16"
Inside HPC, July 29, 2016
In a video Lumsdaine, Associate Dean for Research at Indiana University, discusses his paper on graph algorithms at June conference sponsored by ACM, SIGHPC and Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.

"Trump, Putin and the hacking of an American election"
The Boston Globe, July 27, 2016
Former ACM President Barbara Simons and ACM Turing Award co-recipient Ron Rivest discuss possibility of a hacked election.

"Blockchain Researchers Debate Future of Consensus Tech at IBM Event"
CoinDesk.com, July 27, 2016
Future of blockchain discussed in IBM workshop held at ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2016).

Coverage of ACM SIGGRAPH 2016:

"How Imperceptible Vibrations Could Take Augmented Reality to a New Level "
Digital Trends, September 10, 2016
MIT research team proposes method of using microvibrations to make Pokemon Go more immersive at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"New Algorithm for Optimized Stability of Planar-Rod Objects"
IST Austria, August 11, 2016
Researchers present algorithm that enables improved technical modeling of planar-rod structures consisting of interlocking wires, at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"User-Friendly Language for Programming Efficient Simulations"
MIT News, August 10, 2016
Programming language Simit can accelerate computer simulations by a factor of 200 or reduce their required code by 90 percent, according to a paper researchers presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Theme Parks for Your Face: Now’s the Time to Take Risks with VR, Digital Storytellers Say"
NVIDIA, July 28, 2016
Panel of storytellers speaks at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 about their work to create experiences for the booming new medium.

"Caltech Scientists Improve Computer Graphics With Quantum Mechanics"
Pasadena Now, July 27, 2016
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology use mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level to simulate large-scale motion, a development they say could have an impact on computer-generated graphics. They presented the technique at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Selfie Righteous: New Tool Corrects Angles and Distances in Portraits"
Princeton University, July 27, 2016
Princeton University researchers have developed an editing tool, presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016, that can correct distortions in self-portrait photographs by manipulating a digital image to make a subject's face appear as if it were photographed from a longer distance or a different angle.

"Body Talk: A New Crowdshaping Technology Uses Words to Create Accurate 3D Body Models"
Max Planck Society, July 26, 2016
Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and University of Texas at Dallas have developed a crowdshaping technology that creates accurate 3D body models from 2D photos using crowdsourced linguistic descriptions of body shape. They presented it at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"New Movie Screen Allows for Glasses-Free 3D at a Larger Scale"
MIT News, July 25, 2016
MIT researchers presented Cinema 3D concept at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"16 Wild Research Experiments that Could Change Design"
Co.Design, July 25, 2016
Among the 119 technical papers describing projects that could transform design that were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 is a process developed by Disney Research for three-dimensionally (3D) printing meshed structures of varying density.

"Imaging Software Predicts How You Look With Different Hair Styles, Colors, Appearances"
UW Today, July 21, 2016
Method to be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 by University of Washington researchers yields personalized image search engine that enables users to predict their appearance with a different hairstyle or color, or as they would look in a different time period, age, or country.

"Computer Scientists Find Way to Make All That Glitters More Realistic in Computer Graphics"
University of California, San Diego, July 21, 2016
An algorithm developed by University of California, San Diego professor Ravi Ramamoorthi and colleagues promises to make the surfaces of a wide range of materials look a lot more realistic. The researchers will present the work at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Adaptive Rendering Method Reduces Discolored Pixels in Photo-Realistic Images"
EurekAlert, July 20, 2016
Disney researchers have developed a method for improving the rendering of high-quality images from 3D models by significantly reducing the noise contained in animated images while preserving fine detail. The researchers presented their method at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"New Method Reconstructs Highly Detailed 3D Eyes From a Single Photograph"
EurekAlert, July 18, 2016
Disney researchers’ technique that can capture the important, yet subtle details of human eyes with a single facial scan or photo presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Character Animation Technique Produces Realistic-Looking Bends at Joints"
Phys.org, July 18, 2016
Disney researchers have developed a method to pre-compute an optimized center of rotation for each vertex in a character model. The researchers will present the skeletal skinning method at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Computational Design Tool Transforms Flat Materials into 3D Shapes"
CMU News, July 18, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers have developed a tool that can enable designers to exploit auxetic materials' ability to expand uniformly in two dimensions. They will present it at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Design Tool Transforms Objects into Intricate Works of Art"
EurekAlert, July 18, 2016
A computational design tool developed by Disney Research that helps people create structurally sound, ornamental objects formed from interconnected shapes by 3D printer will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016.

"Encryption Breakthrough: Scientists Derive Truly Random Numbers Using Two-Source Extractors"
TechRepublic, July 25, 2016
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed new method for generating truly random numbers that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls, and more accurately simulate complex systems. Their work received the STOC Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2016).

"Solving Big Data's 'Fusion' Problem"
UCLA Newsroom, July 22, 2016
UCLA professor and 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl and Purdue professor Elias Bareinboim say the conventional strategy of using statistical methods to average out differences among the various sets of information blur these distinctions instead of leveraging them for more insightful analyses.

"How the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inched Toward the Exascale"
IEEE Spectrum, July 20, 2016
China's Sunway TaihuLight in June topped the Top500 list as the world's most powerful supercomputer. However, "They produced a processor that can deliver high-arithmetic performance but is very weak in terms of data movement," says University of Tennessee professor and 2013 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award recipient Jack Dongarra, one of the organizers of the Top500.

"CCC Computing Research Symposium—Life Long Learning (Education and Workforce)"
CCC Blog, July 20, 2016
At the Symposium, Communications of the ACM editor-in-chief and Rice University professor Moshe Vardi discussed AI's moral imperatives: "As computing professionals, we have a moral imperative to acknowledge the adverse societal consequences of the technology we develop and to engage with social scientists to find ways to address these consequences."

"NSF Awards Engineers $705K to Improve Wi-Fi, Smartphones"
University at Buffalo News, July 19, 2016
"Fundamental research on advanced wireless will be transformative and take us beyond the current and next generation of wireless--beyond what has been envisioned thus far," says NSF's James F. Kurose, an ACM Fellow.

"Tech volunteers to help school students"
Times of India, July 18, 2016
ACM India's Education Committee has started CSpathshala, an initiative to create a curriculum standard to teach computing as a science in India, with plans to roll it out in schools across the country by 2030.

"Exploring Networks efficiently"
MIT News, July 13, 2016
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present work hypothesizing that the study of ant colony behavior could lead to improved network communication algorithms, at PODC 2016.

"Democratizing Databases"
MIT News, July 8, 2016
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed software that could make it easier for laypeople to work with databases. The team presented the tool at SIGMOD/PODS 2016.

"Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race"
Technology Review, July 6, 2016
Studies show the facial-recognition systems used by the FBI and other police agencies have a built-in racial bias that is a result of how the systems are designed and the data on which they are trained. The algorithms also can be biased based on the way they are trained, according to Michigan State University professor and ACM Fellow Anil Jain.

"Your Smartwatch Is Giving Away Your ATM PIN"
Binghamton University, July 6, 2016
Researchers at Binghamton University and Stevens Institute of Technology have used data from embedded sensors in wearable technologies along with an algorithm to crack private PINs and passwords. The team's paper received the Best Paper Award at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2016).

"Professor Studies How Apps Can Affect Productivity"
Penn State News, July 1, 2016
Pennsylvania State University professor’s team of researchers from Microsoft Research and Seoul National University used a Web app that logs the websites and apps people use during the day to examine impact of applications on productivity. They presented their study at ACM CHI 2016.

"New Translation Tool Will Help Facebook Master International Slang"
Technology Review, July 1, 2016
"A good quantity of parallel Facebook-post-style data would allow much, much better and more colloquial translations," notes Stanford University professor and ACM Fellow Christopher Manning.

"Grade-School Students Teach a Robot to Help Themselves Learn Geometry"
New York University, June 30, 2016
A paper on the rTAG tangible learning environment was presented at the ACM CHI 2016 conference.

"Tackling Intractable Computing Problems"
National Science Foundation, June 29, 2016
"Some of the important leaps, for example in the understanding of efficient approximation, public-key cryptography, arithmetic complexity, and the role of intractability in other sciences, seem to happen mainly due to the collaborative environment of the Intractability Center, supported by the NSF Expedition," says Princeton researcher and 2009 Gödel Prize co-recipient Avi Wigderson.

"Google Fellow Talks Neural Nets, Deep Learning"
EE Times, June 28, 2016
In his keynote address at the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Google senior fellow and 2012 ACM - Infosys Foundation Award Recipient Jeff Dean discussed the pressing need for machine learning systems to derive meaning from vast datasets and computation resources.

"At Stanford, Experts Explore Artificial Intelligence's Social Benefits"
Stanford News, June 23, 2016
Harvard University professor and 2008 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient Barbara Grosz says the executive summary of their report, part of the Stanford 100-Year Study on the Future of Artificial Intelligence, will concentrate on everyday deployments of AI in urban environments in sectors such as transportation, public safety, and low-income neighborhoods.

"The Future of the Internet Is at Risk Say Global Web Experts"
University of Southampton, June 21, 2016
"The fundamental question before all of us who want a future that delivers on the promise of the Internet is this: how do we meet the governance challenges the Internet creates, without undermining the very aspects that make it such a powerful platform for economic and social growth?" says University of Southampton professor and former ACM president Wendy Hall.

"RedEye Could Let Your Phone See 24-7"
Rice News, June 20, 2016
Researchers from Rice University's Efficient Computing Group unveiled RedEye, an application that could provide computers with continuous vision, at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2016) conference.

"China Wins New Bragging Rights in Supercomputers"
The New York Times, June 20, 2016
ACM Fellow and 2013 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award recipient Jack Dongarra warns that the US effort to develop exascale computing could be overtaken by the Chinese effort due to funding shortfalls and technology challenges

"The Inventors of the Internet Are Trying to Build a Truly Permanent Web"
Wired, June 20, 2016
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf is trying to tackle the challenge of preserving online knowledge in the face of constant obsolescence of older digital communications formats.

"Analog Computing Returns"
MIT News, June 20, 2016
Resarchers from MIT and Dartmouth College presented a new analog compiler at PLDI 2016 that can translate between high-level instructions written in a language understandable to humans and the low-level specifications of circuit connections in an analog computer.

"Analog computing and biological simulations get a boost from new MIT compiler"
Techcrunch, June 20, 2016

"In science essay, WPI professor says FBI approach to investigations puts security at risk"
Scienmag, June 16, 2016
Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an ACM Fellow, argues that the FBI's recent and widely publicized efforts to compel Apple Computer to write software to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist in California reflects an outdated approach to law enforcement that threatens to weaken the security of all smartphones

"The FBI Needs Better Hackers to Solve Encryption Standoff, Research Says"
The Christian Science Monitor, June 16, 2016
Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor and ACM Fellow Susan Landau suggests law enforcement boost the hiring of government hackers and foster in-house experts to legally hack suspected criminals' devices when they have a warrant.

"New Study Highlights Power of Crowd to Transmit News on Twitter"
Columbia University Data Science Institute, June 15, 2016
Columbia University and French National Institute researchers present study on how people consume news on social media platforms at ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2016.

"Team Uses Smart Light to Track Human Behavior"
PhysOrg, June 15, 2016
Dartmouth College researchers have significantly improved StarLight, a light-sensing system that continuously and unobtrusively tracks a person's behavior in real time. They presented their research at MobiSys 2016.

"New 'GreenWeb' Tools Aim to Create an Energy-Efficient Web"
UT News, June 15, 2016
University of Texas at Austin researchers presented GreenWeb, an open source programming framework that could make the Internet more energy efficient, at the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2016).

"Creating Printable, Programmable Machines"
National Science Foundation, June 13, 2016
Daniela Rus, and ACM Fellow and head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is pioneering the science of printable, foldable, and do-it-yourself robotics.

"Computer Science Salaries Rise with Demand for New Graduates"
Network World, June 13, 2016
"There are currently over 500,000 open computing jobs, in every sector...but only 50,000 computer science graduates a year," according to an open letter from the Computer Science Education Coalition and Code.org to Congress.

"California Moves to Catch Up on K-12 Computer Science Curriculum"
EdSource, June 13, 2016
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has begun its final review of a proposed framework for bringing computer science into all K-12 grades.

"Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries"
The New York Times, June 7, 2016
2015 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award recipient Eric Horvitz is one of the Microsoft researchers who conducted the study.

"U.S. Gets Warnings and Advice about the Internet of Things"
Computerworld, June 7, 2016
In response to a US Department of Commerce request for comments about the Internet of Things' potential, industry groups including ACM's US Public Policy Council (USACM) and others submitted more than 130 reports detailing positive and negative aspects, which will form the basis of a green paper (a tentative government report).

"The Web's Creator Looks to Reinvent It"
The New York Times, June 7, 2016
World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee seeks to rethink the Web in response to the fact it is largely controlled by governments and corporations. Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf says the Web's accountability could be improved using methods digital currencies utilize to record transactions permanently.

"Reduce Cyberslacking and Increase Physical Activity With a Tap, a Click, or a Kick"
Waterloo News, June 6, 2016
University of Waterloo researchers presented Tap-Kick-Click: Foot Interaction for a Standing Desk at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 conference.

"Computing Association Elects First All-Women Slate of Officers"
Associations Now, June 6, 2016
Although the tech industry struggles with diversity, a group of women now leads the Association for Computing Machinery.

"All-female team to lead Association for Computing Machinery"
Network World, June 1, 2016
Against a backdrop of an IT industry pushing hard to more fairly represent women in leadership positions, the Association for Computing Machinery has announced that an all-female board has been elected to head up the society.

"Tech Turns to Biology as Data Storage Needs Explode"
Scientific American, May 31, 2016
Researchers demonstrate how they wrote three image files, each a few tens of kilobytes in size, in 40,000 DNA strands using their own encoding scheme, and then read them individually with no errors, at ACM conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2016).

"The White House Is Finally Prepping for an AI-Powered Future"
Wired, May 30, 2016
"AI is making policy challenges already, such as how to make sure the technology remains safe, controllable, and predictable, even as it gets much more complex and smarter," says Deputy US Chief Technology Officer and ACM Fellow Ed Felten.

"Google AI Expert Explains the Challenge of Debugging Machine-Learning Systems"
Network World, May 25, 2016
Google research director and ACM Fellow Peter Norvig compares traditional software programming to machine learning to stress the challenges of debugging and verifying that machine learning-programmed systems function as intended.

"Artificial Intelligence Is Far from Matching Humans, Panel Says"
The New York Times, May 25, 2016
"The AI community keeps climbing one mountain after another, and as it gets to the top of each mountain, it sees ahead still more mountains," says ACM Fellow Ed Felten.

"Building the Tools for Bug-Free Software"
Government Computer News, May 24, 2016
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Princeton University professor and ACM Fellow Andrew Appel's Deep Specification (DeepSpec) project to develop a toolkit for specifying the precise intended functions of software programs in all possible scenarios and for confirming they are performing as expected.

"Researchers Use Developer Biometrics to Predict Code Quality"
Motherboard, May 22, 2016
University of Zurich researchers developed a system that uses developers' biometric data to predict the quality of the code they produce so likely bugs can be deduced. They presented their research at ICSE 2016.

"More than 30 States Offer Online Voting, but Experts Warn It Isn't Secure"
The Washington Post, May 18, 2016
MIT professor and 2002 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Ron Rivest says hackers, including foreign nations, could tamper with U.S. elections because states have no means of protecting their online voting systems.

"Scan Your Doodles to Find the Perfect Matching Photo Online"
New Scientist, May 18, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers to present software that can scan hand-drawn sketches and search for a photograph that looks just like them at ACM SIGGRAPH 2016. 

"New Method of Producing Random Numbers Could Improve Cybersecurity"
UT News, May 16, 2016
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin say they have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers. They will present a paper about their method at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2016). 

"Moore's Law Is Dead. Now What?"
Technology Review, May 13, 2016
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Horst Simon, co-recipient of the 1988 and 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, says the approaching limit to transistor density will rekindle interest in rethinking the fundamental computer architecture among supercomputer and data center designers.

"Ingestible Origami Robot"
MIT News, May 12, 2016
"It’s really exciting to see our small origami robots doing something with potential important applications to healthcare," says MIT professor and ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"System Harnesses Thousands of Network Cameras for Public Safety"
Purdue University News, May 10, 2016
Purdue professor Yung-Hsiang Lu, and ACM Distinguished Member and Distinguished Speaker, notes many organizations have deployed cameras for a wide range of purposes, and they are accessible to the public without the need for a password.

Coverage of ACM CHI 2016:

"Password Perceptions Don’t Always Match Reality"
Carnegie Mellon University, July 26, 2016
Study examining misconceptions about password strength presented at ACM CHI 2016.

"We Know Where You Live"
MIT News, May 17, 2016
Researchers from MIT and Oxford have demonstrated that snoopers armed with little in the way of sophisticated technology can expose the home and workplace addresses of Twitter users by exploiting the location stamps of only a handful of tweets. They presented their work at ACM CHI 2016.

"A New Challenge for Caregivers: The Internet"
Northwestern University Newscenter, May 11, 2016
New research examining the role of caregivers in the online lives of adults with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer's was presented at ACM CHI 2016.

"In a Connected World, Privacy Becomes a Group Effort"
Penn State News, May 11, 2016
Pennsylvania State University researchers presented findings that say collaboration is playing an increasingly valuable role in privacy management in the face of a more social and connected world, at ACM CHI 2016.

"Paper Gets 'Smart' With Drawn-on, Stenciled Sensor Tags"
UW News, May 11, 2016
Researchers from the University of Washington, Disney Research, and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method in which small, off-the-shelf RFID tags are attached, printed, or drawn onto paper to create interactive interfaces. They presented their research at ACM CHI 2016.

"Altering a Robot's Gender and Social Roles May Be a Screen Change Away"
Penn State News, May 11, 2016
Pennsylvania State University researchers have found robots can keep their parts and still change their gender, as the arrival of robots with screens has made it easier to assign distinct personalities. They presented their findings at ACM CHI 2016.

"Your Smartphone and Tablet May Be Making You ADHD-Like"
KurzweilAI.net, May 10, 2016
Smartphones and other digital technology may be inducing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-like symptoms, according to a study published in the proceedings of the ACM CHI 2016 conference.

"How Will People Interact with Technology in the Future?"
University of Bristol News, May 9, 2016
Researchers from Bristol University's Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) will present new research focusing on how people will interact with technology in the future at ACM CHI 2016.

"Big Thinking in Small Pieces: Computer Guides Humans in Crowdsourced Research"
CMU News, May 9, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have demonstrated that computer-guided non-experts can collectively research and craft coherent reports, using a system called the Knowledge Accelerator, which they presented at ACM CHI 2016.

"Digital Media May Be Changing How You Think"
Dartmouth College, May 8, 2016
Dartmouth College researchers have found using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading could make users more inclined to focus on concrete details instead of interpreting information more abstractly. The researchers will at present their work at ACM CHI 2016.

"Design Tool Enables Novices to Create Bendable Input Devices for Computers"
Phys.org, May 6, 2016
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Disney have developed DefSense, software that enables non-experts to design and build flexible objects that can sense when they are being deformed and be used to control other electronic devices. The researchers will at present their work at ACM CHI 2016.

"SkinTrack Technology Turns Arm into Smartwatch Touchpad"
CMU News, May 5, 2016
The Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) has developed SkinTrack, a wearable technology that enables continuous touch tracking on the user's hands and arms. They will present the technology at ACM CHI 2016.

"HoloFlex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display"
IEEE Spectrum, May 5, 2016
Queen's University researchers have developed the HoloFlex, a flexible smartphone equipped with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional (3D) images to multiple users. They will present HoloFlex at ACM CHI 2016.

"New Health Sensing Tool Measures Lung Function Over a Phone Call, From Anywhere in the World"
UW Today, May 2, 2016
University of Washington (UW) researchers have developed SpiroCall, a health-sensing tool that can accurately measure lung function over a phone call. They will present their work at the ACM CHI 2016 conference.

"A Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy"
Aalto University, April 28, 2016
Aalto University researchers will present new theory of computer input revealing insights into why touchscreen gaming is so awkward at the ACM CHI 2016 conference.

"How Minecraft Is Helping Children With Autism Make New Friends "
New Scientist, April 27, 2016
University of California, Irvine researcher studied “Autcraft,” a version of Minecraft for autistic users and will present her research at the ACM CHI 2016 conference.

"Computer Science Teachers Need Cybersecurity Education, Says CSTA Industry Group"
TechRepublic, May 10, 2016
ACM's Computer Science Teachers Association (CTSA) is crafting a cybersecurity certification program for computer science teachers to provide tomorrow's workforce with vital knowledge and training.

"ACM Awards 2016 Godel Prize to Inventors of Concurrent Separation Logic"
Inside HPC, May 9, 2016
ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science awarded Stephen Brookes and Peter W. O’Hearn, the creators of Concurrent Separation Logic (CSL), the 2016 Gödel Prize.

"Cybersecurity Is Harder than Building Bridges"
American Scientist, May/June 2016
Cybersecurity is a complex and messy challenge, but there are indications it can be improved, write former ACM President Peter J. Denning and Naval Postgraduate School professor Dorothy E. Denning.

"Social Media Interaction Tools Might Make MOOCs Stickier"
Penn State News, April 27, 2016
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers conducted a study comparing massive online open course (MOOC) student use of a course's Facebook groups to utilization of built-in course message boards and forums. They presented their research at ACM’s ACM Learning at Scale (L@S) conference.

"Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?"
MIT News, April 26, 2016
Research presented at the ACM Learning at Scale (L@S 2016) conference shows tablet use was effective in improving participants' performance on standardized tests of reading preparedness.

"Vint Cerf: We Need to Make Room on the Net for All the Machines"
Yahoo! Tech, April 26, 2016
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf acknowledged at Saturday's "The Future Is Here" festival the Internet has proven to be highly scalable in the decades since its humble origins, but the Internet Protocol's (IP) current support for about 4.3 billion distinct addresses at a time for online devices is insufficient.

"Digital Genies"
Slate, April 22, 2016
In an interview, University of California, Berkeley professor and 2005 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award recipient Stuart Russell emphasizes the need to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) understands fundamental human values, a task he says is fraught with uncertainty.

"AOL-Cornell Tech Lab Pioneers New Content Technology"
Cornell Chronicle, April 21, 2016
"Users should be able to unlock their personal data for many purposes, including curating content based on their interests," says Cornell Tech professor and 2006 ACM-W Athena Lecturer Deborah Estrin.

"Promoting Women in Science"
Amsterdam Science, April 19, 2016
In an interview, Utrecht University professor and ACM-W Europe advisory committee member Lynda Hardman discusses the pressing need to promote participation of women in science in the Netherlands.

"Obama Announces Computer-Science-for-All Initiative"
CIO, April 15, 2016
More than 500 schools have pledged to extend access to computer science education, partly thanks to support from Code.org, a consortium that includes ACM.

"Grand Challenges for Cultural Heritage Databases, from Preservation to Best Practices"
Yale News, April 14, 2016
"Technologists and computer scientists like myself build tools to empower people and amplify human effort," says Yale professor and ACM Distinguished Member Holly Rushmeier.

"Soft Robotic Fingers Recognize Objects by Feel"
Product Design & Development, April 12, 2016
ACM Fellow Daniela Rus at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has led the development of bendable, stretchable robot fingers that can lift and handle delicate objects.

"Rise of the Chat Bot"
Marketplace.org, April 11, 2016
Chatbots “give the human the illusion that they are communicating with an entity that understands and can generate sentences that make sense,” says University of Southern California CS professor and ACM SIGAI Chair Yolanda Gil.

"Chatbots rise, and the future may be 're-written'"
CNBC.com, April 10, 2016
University of Southern California CS professor and ACM SIGAI Chair Yolanda Gil isn't so concerned that chatbots will be stealing jobs from the workforce. In fact, she thinks they will just work alongside humans as a secondary means of assistance.

"Turing Tests and the Problem of Artificial Olfaction"
Technology Review, April 7, 2016
Weizmann Institute of Science's David Harel (ACM Fellow and Karlstrom and Software System Award recipient) says smell reproduction consists of three components: a "sniffer" device that converts an input odor into a digital signature, a "whiffer" device containing a spectrum of fixed smells that can be combined and issued in carefully measured quantities and concentrations, and the sniffer/whiffer interface.

"How Livermore Scientists Will Put IBM's Brain-Inspired Chips to the Test"
IEEE Spectrum, April 5, 2016
IBM has built a 16-chip array with new processors that can run on as little as 2.5 watts to demonstrate the system can scale up the approach to bigger and bigger systems, says IBM's Dharmendra Modha, recipient of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize.

"The Twittersphere Does Listen to the Voice of Reason—Sometimes"
UW Today, April 4, 2016
University of Washington researchers say case studies of spread of two online rumors offer crisis management lessons for organizations. They presented their findings at CSCW 2016.

"Wireless Tech Means Safer Drones, Smarter Homes, and Password-Free Wi-Fi"
MIT News, March 31, 2016
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory led by professor Dina Katabi (ACM Fellow and Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient) have developed Chronos, which enables a single Wi-Fi access point to locate users to within tens of centimeters, without any external sensors.

"The Race Is on to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech's Future"
The New York Times, March 25, 2016
SIGKDD Innovation Award recipient Pedro Domingos on the race for dominance in AI software.

"You'll interact with smartphones and smartwatches by writing/gesturing on any surface, using sonar signals"
Kurzweil AI, March 17, 2016
New technology developed by University of Washington computer scientists and electrical engineers to be presented at CHI 2016.

"ACM SIGHPC and Intel Announce Computational & Data Science Fellowships"
HPC Wire, March 14, 2016
Fellowships aim to increase diversity in these fields.

"Banning Words on Instagram Totally Backfired"
Futurity, March 14, 2016
Georgia Tech researchers presented their study at CSCW 2016.

"Algorithms and Experiments Make Strange Bedfellows at SXSW"
Computerworld, March 14, 2016
A session hosted at the South by Southwest Interactive festival highlighted users' backlash to Facebook's experimentation with the algorithm that chose items for their news feeds. Google User Experience Director and ACM Distinguished Scientist Elizabeth Churchill recommended designers design experiments to support their design decisions as part of the process of producing a user experience using qualitative and quantitative measures that can interrelate to improve overall quality.

"Browsing in Public"
MIT News, March 7, 2016
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed Eyebrowse, a system that enables Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity. They presented their work at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016).

"Log in to Your Phone with a Finger-Drawn Doodle Instead of a Password"
Technology Review, March 3, 2016
Researchers at Rutgers and Aalto universities will present their research on faster authentication method at ACM CHI 2016.

"World's Top Cryptographers on Encryption Backdoors: No Way"
Network World, March 2, 2016
A panel of leading cryptographers at this week's RSA Conference (including 2002 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Adi Shamir and 2015 co-recipient Whitfield Diffie) agreed inserting backdoors to unscramble encrypted communications is a threat to confidentiality.

"In Emergencies, Should You Trust a Robot?"
Georgia Tech News Center, February 29, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) researchers studying human-robot trust in an emergency situation report humans may put too much faith in robots for their own safety. Their research will be presented March 9 at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016).

"Computer Science as Liberal Arts 'Enabler'"
Inside Higher Ed, February 23, 2016
ACM’s survey of non-doctoral-granting CS departments at higher-education institutions cited.

"Netflix Knows How Long You'll Search Before They Lose You"
February 18 and 19, 2016
NBC News and Tech Insider mention ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems paper on Netflix recommender system.

"Big-Data Visualization Experts Make Using Scatter Plots Easier for Today's Researchers"
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, February 18, 2016
Study conducted by data visualization researchers at NYU Poly's Tandon School of Engineering to receive honorable mention at CHI 2016 in May.

"ScaAnalyzer: An Award-Winning Tool to Find Computing Bottlenecks"
College of William & Mary, February 12, 2016
College of William & Mary researchers have developed ScaAnalyzer, a new tool they say could have considerable value to the supercomputing community. Their paper on the tool was named Best Paper at the SC '15 conference.

"This new mind-reading tech helps you learn to play instruments faster"
Science Alert, February 12, 2016
A new brain-scanning system called BACh (Brain Automated Chorales) is teaching inexperienced piano players how to learn more quickly and effectively by figuring out how hard their brains are working and adjusting the difficulty accordingly. Tufts University researchers will present their report at CHI 2016.

"IST researchers aim to help companies fortify cyber defenses"
Penn State News, February 10, 2016
Penn State researchers are investigating the dynamics of "bug bounty" programs with the intention of helping organizations amp up their defenses against malevolent hackers. They presented their paper "An Empirical Study of Web Vulnerability Discovery Ecosystems" at ACM CCS 2015.

"Not Getting Enough Sleep? You're Probably on Facebook, Says New Study"
Yahoo!Tech, February 5, 2016
University of California, Irvine, researchers found that a lack of sleep is linked to a higher level of online browsing, including checking social media websites such as Facebook. The study's findings will be presented at CHI 2016.

"3D-Printed Display Lets Blind People Explore Images by Touch"
New Scientist, February 10, 2016
"The objective is to let blind users visualize and make sense of complex spatial data just like sighted people," says Hasso Plattner Institute research team leader Patrick Baudisch. Baudisch, a CHI Academy member and ACM Distinguished Scientist, and his team will present Linespace at ACM CHI 2016. He'll also give a talk on 3D printing at SXSW 2016 in Austin in March. 

"Querying Historical Maps as a Unified, Structured, and Linked Spatiotemporal Source"
CCC Blog, February 2, 2016
USC researcher's paper on techniques to unlock historical information from maps takes first place at ACM SIGSPATIAL conference.

"Breakthrough in Concurrent Program Verification"
Public Now (University of Science and Technology in China), February 2, 2016
USTC’s Liang Hongjin and Feng Xinyu designed the first program logic for verifying starvation-freedom and deadlock-freedom of concurrent objects. They presented their research at the ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2016).

"Computer Science, Meet Humanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract"
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 28, 2016
ACM Fellow Jim Kurose of NSF says CS+X degrees may hold more appeal for students who want to use data collection to analyze subjects such as politics, society, and the environment.

"Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life"
Quanta Magazine, January 28, 2016
In an interview, Harvard University computer scientist and 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant discusses his definition of an "ecorithm," or a learning algorithm that "runs" on any system capable of interacting with its physical environment.

"DAC Finds a New Voice"
Semiconductor Engineering, January 28, 2016
ACM Design Automation Conference exhibits will include Maker’s Market, IoT.

"Closing the Tech Industry Gender Gap"
The Huffington Post, January 27, 2016
YouTube CEO Susan Wojicki addressed the impact of the lack of women in tech fields at last year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

"Can Augmented Reality Make Remote Communication Feel More Intimate?"
MIT Technology Review, January 19, 2016
Paper on new Microsoft 3-D imaging technology to be presented at CSCW in February.

"53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) Inaugurates Silicon and Technology Art Show"
Yahoo! Finance, January 14, 2016
ACM Design Automation Conference hosting silicon and technology art show in June.

"Computing Leaders Team Up on K-12 Computer Science Framework"
SD Times, January 11, 2016
ACM, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and Code.org are partnering to create a new framework, called K12CS, to define the appropriate scope and sequence for K-12 computer science education.

"Computing and Information Science Receives $10M Grant"
Cornell Chronicle, January 7, 2016
"The Expeditions in Computing program enables the computing research community to pursue complex problems by supporting large project teams over a longer period of time," notes NSF head for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and ACM Fellow Jim Kurose.

"Computer Scientists Launch Campaign to Guarantee Bug-Free Software"
Princeton University, January 7, 2016
A multi-university consortium led by Princeton University computer scientist and ACM Fellow Andrew Appel aspires to stamp out software bugs with the help of a five-year, $10-million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

"Better Coding: Computer science students mine software developer forums to teach coding practices"
UDaily, January 6, 2016
University of Delaware researchers have demonstrated how natural-language processing and sentiment-analysis techniques can be used to mine bad, or negative, code examples from software developer forums. Their study was published in the proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 30th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASE 2015).

"Cybersecurity Experts Debate Proper Response to Terrorism"
Columbia News, January 6, 2016
Columbia computer science professor and USACM member Steven Bellovin says giving the government exceptional access would not reduce the threat of terrorism but rather would create new holes in computer security that others can exploit.

"Privacy-Preserving Inference of Social Relationships From Location Data"
CCC Blog, January 4, 2016
Researchers from the University of Southern California, Emory University, and Utah State University have conceived of an extensible framework labeled Privacy-Preserving Location Analytics and Computation Environment (Private-PLACE). Their paper garnered a prize at the Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015.

 

"Driverless Cars Are Colliding with the Creepy Trolley Problem"
The Washington Post, December 29, 2015
ACM Fellow Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence lab, suggests avoiding the Trolley Problem (i.e., deciding how driverless vehicles can behave appropriately in life-threatening situations) altogether by giving driverless cars enough control and situational awareness to avoid collisions entirely.

"The AI Anxiety"
The Washington Post, December 27, 2015
Despite an attitude of fear toward machine intelligence--a fear chiefly promulgated by the media--most AI researchers think such anxieties are premature. "The progress has not been as steady as people say, and the machine skills are really far from being ready to match our skills," says ACM Fellow Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

"Landmark Algorithm Breaks 30-Year Impasse"
Quanta Magazine, December 14, 2015
Developed by University of Chicago theoretical computer scientist Laszlo Babai, the new algorithm for the "graph isomorphism" problem is significantly more efficient than the previous best offering. Babai submitted a paper on his work to ACM's 48th Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2016).

"Got Computer Science? You Should"
Black Enterprise, December 11, 2015
ACM Education Policy Committee Chair Jeffrey Forbes talks about how we can make quality computer science education available to a broader set of students.

"New Education Bill to Get More Coding in Classrooms"
Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2015
The Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 10, recognizes computer science as important an academic subject as math and English. "This week marks a watershed moment for computer science in US schools," says Code.org founder Hadi Partovi. ACM partners with Code.org to bring computing skills to elementary and high school students.

"Untraceable Communication--Guaranteed"
MIT News, December 7, 2015
Untraceable text-messaging system designed to foil even the most powerful adversaries was unveiled by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers at ACM's Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP).

The FTC is getting a new chief technologist: Carnegie Mellon’s Lorrie Cranor
The Washington Post, December 3, 2015
Carnegie Mellon University professor Lorrie Cranor named chief technologist of Federal Trade Commission. Cranor is an ACM Fellow and member of USACM.

"Mass surveillance and a crisis of social responsibility"
University of Auckland, December 1, 2015
Phllip Rogaway, 2009 Paris Kanellakis Award winner, gives talk at University of Auckland on mass surveillance.

"Jack Dongarra Honored for Leadership in HPC"
HPC Wire, December 1, 2015
ACM Fellow Jack Dongarra Honored for Leadership in HPC.

"SC15 Breaks Exhibits and Attendance Records"
HPC Wire, November 20, 2015
ACM Supercomputing conference draws record-breaking 12,903+ registered attendees.

"Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track Held at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015"
CCC Blog, November 19, 2015
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems concentrated on advanced geospatial data research, and three papers won awards under the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium's Blue Sky Ideas track.

"What Are Your Apps Hiding?"
MIT News, November 19, 2015
MIT researchers presented findings at the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems that much of the data transferred to and from the 500 most popular free applications for Google Android cellphones make little or no difference to the user's experience.

"Tech's Big Gender Diversity Push, One Year in
Fast Company, November 19, 2015
Technology firms' efforts to address the issue of low numbers of women employees was underscored at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.

"Powering the next billion devices with Wi-Fi"
EurekAlert, November 18, 2015
Vamsi Talla, Best Paper winner at SIGCOMM 2013, uses wi-fi router to power devices.

"Latest Graph500 Ranking of Fastest Supercomputers Released by Leading Universities at SC15"
HPC Wire, November 17, 2015
The 11th Graph500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was unveiled at ACM'sSupercomputing 2015 conference, with Japan's K-Computer holding the lead position for the second time in a row.

"Japan Chases Title of World's Fastest Computer With New System"
Computerworld, November 16, 2015
Japan says it is developing a new supercomputer with the aim to deliver 100 times more application performance than its current K supercomputer. It shared details about the new supercomputer at ACM'sSC15 conference.

"Get Ready for Your Digital Model"
The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2015
Within 10 years, people will entrust their data to machine-learning algorithms that build personal digital models of them, writes University of Washington professor and ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award winner Pedro Domingos.

"Bringing iPhone-Style Medical Research to the Android World"
The New York Times, November 12, 2015
Apple's introduction of ResearchKit software for its iPhone platform prompted Weill Cornell Medical College professor inaugural ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award recipient Deborah Estrin to launch an effort to embed similar capability within Google's Android platform.

"Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids to Code"
Wired, November 9, 2015
In an effort to bring coding to an ever-larger group of kids and students, Code.org partnered with Lucasfilm as part of its annualHour of Codeevent, and recently launched a free online tutorial featuring characters from the upcoming film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." (ACM is a parter of Code.org.)

"System Recognizes Objects Touched by User, Enabling Context-Aware Smartwatch Apps"
Carnegie Mellon News, November 9, 2015
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research presented EM-Sense—technology designed to enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what kind of objects users interact with and touch—at theACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2015).

"Cities First to Benefit from Internet of Things, if We Can Write Better Software"
TechRepublic, November 5, 2015
A panel led by Google Chief Internet Evangelist and ACM Past President Vint Cerf at a New York University event discussed how city dwellers could be the initial benefactors of the Internet of Things.

"Nomadic Computing Speeds Up Big Data Analytics"
National Science Foundation, November 4, 2015
University of Texas at Austin professor Inderjit Dhillon, a 2014 ACM Fellow, concentrates on expediting big data analytics by using machine learning to reduce data to its most insightful parameters.

Japan chases title of world's fastest computer with new system
PC World, November 16, 2015
Japanese Scientists Offer Sneak Peek at World’s Fastest Supercomputer at ACM's SC15

"IBM's Brain-Like Chip and the Quest for a 'Cognitive Planet'"
TechRepublic, October 29, 2015
IBM's Dharmendra Modha, recipient of the 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, says one of his goals through projects such as the TrueNorth chip is to embed intelligence in network-edge sensors.

"How Wireless 'X-ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood"
MIT News, October 28, 2015
MIT professor (and 2012 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award co-recipient) Dina Katabi says potential smart-home applications of the new RF Capture technology could include automatic 911 alerts when a resident has fallen unconscious, or intelligent in-home systems operation.

News from ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, November 2-5, Kobe, Japan
"Streamlining Mobile Image Processing"
MIT News, November 13, 2015
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Adobe Systems unveiled a system that streamlines mobile image processing.

"Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots"
IEEE Spectrum, November 9, 2015
A joint project between ETH Zurich, Carnegie Mellon University, and Disney Research has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions.

"Amplifying—or Removing—Visual Variation"
MIT News, November 5, 2015
MIT researchers present studies detailing methods for either amplifying or removing digital image defects.

"Puzzle Lamps Attain New Dimensions With Disney Research Computer Design Tool"
EurekAlert, October 30, 2015
Disney researchers have developed an interactive design tool they say makes it easier to create more intricate decorations.

"STEM Definition Expanded to Include Computer Science"
SD Times, October 26, 2015
President Barack Obama has officially signed the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education Act of 2015 into law, expanding the STEM definition to include computer science. Officially including computer science in the definition of STEM signals the importance of a computer science education, says Della Cronin, who handles federal affairs for Code.org (of which ACM is a partner).

"Manipulating Faces from Aafar in Real Time"
The New York Times, October 26, 2015
Computer scientists from Stanford University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany say they have created a process dubbed "live facial re-enactment" that can instantaneously transfer facial expressions. They will present their work atSIGGRAPH Asia 2015next month.

"The Future of Encryption"
National Science Foundation, October 22, 2015
National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported researchers are developing new methods to ensure the security of important data. One technique is called fully homomorphic encryption, developed by ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Craig Gentry in 2010 while he was a graduate student.

"What It Will Take to Make Computer Science Education Available in All Schools"
The Conversation, October 22, 2015
On average, as of 2010, states had adopted only 55% of the35 recommended learning standardsdeveloped by theComputer Science Teachers Association. A2013 report by ACM and CSTAstates that only two states and the District of Columbia specifically require CS certification to teach computer science classes.

"White House National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop"
CCC Blog, October 22, 2015
At the workshop, Kathy Yelick (2013–2014 ACM-W Athena Lecturer and 2015 Ken Kennedy Award recipient) gave a presentation titled "More Data, More Science, and Moore's Law."

"'Our Time to Lead': An Interview With Telle Whitney at Grace Hopper 2015"
The Huffington Post, October 19, 2015
In an interview at the2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology CEO (and former ACM Secretary/Treasurer) Telle Whitney said 2015 is "our time to lead," noting this theme is highlighted at GHC so women can avail themselves of leadership training tools.

"Hilary Mason: Use Data Science and Machine Intelligence to Build a Better Future"
TechRepublic, October 14, 2015
Algorithms are enabling machines to perform increasingly "creative" functions that people previously thought only humans could do, such as re-imagining artwork like the Mona Lisa, said Fast Forward Labs CEO Hilary Mason this week in her opening keynote at the2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

"Vint Cerf and 260 Experts Give FCC a Plan to Secure Wi-Fi Routers"
Computerworld, October 14, 2015
A group of 260 network and cybersecurity experts, including Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf, have sent an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) critiquing the agency's recently proposed rules for Wi-Fi routers and RF devices and offering an alternative proposal.

"Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs"
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 13, 2015
A team of researchers from Brown University, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer to help understand and fight diseases affecting red blood cells. The team's research has made it a finalist for this year's ACM Gordon Bell Prize—one of the most prestigious awards in high performance computing—to be presented at theSC15 supercomputing conference.

"Obama Won't Seek Access to Encrypted User Data"
The New York Times, October 10, 2015
Peter G. Neumann (Chair of ACM's Committee on Computers and Public Policy and founder of ACM RISKS Forum) lauds the decision, but warns law enforcement will still exert heavy pressure to allow access.

"New Programming Approach Seeks to Make Large-Scale Computation More Reliable"
UChicago News, October 7, 2015
ACM Fellow Andrew Chien and his colleagues at Univeristy of Chicago's Computation Institute are experimenting with a new technique that enables applications to not only save work that is underway, but also to offer flexible error-check and self-repair while in operation.

"MIT Prof. Constantinos Daskalakis Solves Life's Equations"
The National Herald, October 6, 2015
2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient talks about the Nash Equilibrium and meeting John Nash.

"For the Real Hits of Fashion Week, Look to Computer Science"
Science News, October 5, 2015
Researchers from Taiwan and University of Rochester presented algorithms that enable a computer to identify trends that make their way from the runway to the street at theACM Multimedia Conference.

"Defining Scalable OS Requirements for Exascale and Beyond"
HPC Wire, October 5, 2015
Robert Wisniewski, chief software architect for extreme scale computing at Intel and an ACM Distinguished Scientist, says system software for exascale systems is becoming more complex, and the compute node operating system (OS) will play a critical role in helping to realize the potential of exascale systems.

"Microsoft, Tesla Say Software-Defined Batteries Could Mix and Match Power on the Fly"
PC World, October 2, 2015
Researchers from Microsoft, Tesla, and other organizations presented a paper at theACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, advocating for what they call software-defined batteries.

"Stanford Computer Scientist Christopher Ré Named MacArthur Fellow"
Stanford Report, September 30, 2015
MacArthur Foundation recognizes Ré (an ACM SIGMOD/PODS Best Paper Award recipient) with "genius grant" for his work in big-data analytics.

"Soft Robotic Hand Can Pick Up and Identify a Wide Array of Objects"
MIT News, September 30, 2015
"Grasping is an important step in being able to do useful tasks; with this work we set out to develop both the soft hands and the supporting control and planning systems that make dynamic grasping possible," says MIT professor and 2014 ACM Fellow Daniela Rus.

"Scientists Stop and Search Malware Hidden in Shortened URLs on Twitter"
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, September 25, 2015
Cardiff University researchers presented a technique for detecting tweets containing malicious links at the2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015):
"UMD Researchers Present Paper on Innovative Work for Ensuring Integrity in Cloud-Hosted Databases"
University of Maryland, October 8, 2015
Researchers at the University of Maryland presented a new method for verifying the integrity and completeness of cloud data.

"UAB Research Studies Cyberattacks Through the Lens of EEG and Eye Tracking"
UAB News, October 22, 2015
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham presented a study about users' susceptibility to, and ability to detect, certain cyberattacks.

"Researchers Find 85 Percent of Android Devices Insecure"
Threatpost, October 14, 2015
University of Cambridge have developed a scorecard for Android devices dubbed FUM, a number from 0 to 10 that breaks down how often manufacturers and network operators patch their devices. They presented their research at theACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices.

ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015):
"Deep Learning Machine Predicts Human Activity"
R&D Magazine, October 13, 2015
Model that allows a computer to predict with over 83% accuracy the activities a human engages in during the day presented by Georgia Tech researchers.

"Affordable Camera Reveals Hidden Details Invisible to the Naked Eye"
University of Washington News and Information, October 13, 2015
Researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research are developing HyperCam, affordable camera technology that could soon enable consumers to tell if fruits or vegetables are ripe or starting to rot underneath the surface.

"Code.org Trains 15,000 Teachers in Computer Science"
USA Today, September 10, 2015
Code.org and its partners (which include ACM) have trained more than 15,000 computer science teachers this year, who will use those skills to teach more than 600,000 pupils in kindergarten through 12th grade, according to Code.org founder Hadi Partovi.

"Vint Cerf Wants Your Help Re-Imagining the Internet"
InformationWeek, September 10, 2015
Google chief Internet Evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf is starting a new project to solicit ideas from the public about how to improve the Internet, specifically to address issues such as education and what he calls the "Digital Dark Age."

"New Tool Reduces Smartphone Battery Drain From Faulty Apps"
Purdue University News, September 10, 2015
A new software tool that can reduce smartphone battery power drain by 16 percent was developed by Purdue researchers. They presented their findings atACM's MobiCom 2015 conference.

"Humanizing Technology: A History of Human-Computer Interaction"
The New York Times, September 7, 2015
ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ben Schneiderman wants to make the history of human-computer interaction more prominent with what he calls "the Human-Computer Interaction Pioneers Project," a website on which he profiles pioneers in the field.

"'Molecular Tweeting' Could Hold the Key to Busting Superbugs"
Scientific American, August 31, 2015
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers are using the metaphor of Twitter to help them better understand the ways communication among bacteria can lead to antibiotic resistance. They presented their findings this month at theACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB), and atACM's International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (ACM NANOCOM).

"Tired of Memorizing Passwords? A Turing Award Winner Came Up With This Algorithmic Trick"
Network World, August 31, 2015
1995 ACM A. M. Turing Award winning-scientist Manuel Blum is working on what he calls "human computable" passwords that are not only relatively secure but also don't require us to memorize a different one for each site. He demonstrated his method at last month at theHeidelberg Laureate Forum.

"Why the World's Top Computing Experts are Worrying About Your Data"
Computerworld, August 26, 2015
Many of the world's top computer science experts met at theHeidelberg Laureate Forumto determine how the widespread collection of data about consumers can be prevented from causing harm in the future.

"Understanding the Google Computer, and Making It Better"
CCC Blog, August 26, 2015
Google engineers, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University, presented detailed performance characteristics on warehouse-scale computers that power Internet-based services and the cloud at ACM'sInternational Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).

"Crash-Tolerant Data Storage"
MIT News, August 24, 2015
MIT) researchers will detail the first computer file system that mathematically ensures no loss of data when the system crashes at theACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)in October.

UbiComp2015:
"Making IoT Configuration More Secure and Easy-to-Use"
University of Southampton, September 10, 2015
Researchers at the University of Southampton say they have identified easy-to-use techniques that will make the process of configuring Internet of Things (IoT) devices more secure.

"Android Widgets May Boost Effectiveness of Sleep-Monitoring Apps"
Penn State News, September 8, 2015
Researchers at Penn State have developed SleepTight, an Android sleep-monitoring app widget that serves as a data-capturing tool and provides visual reminders of the user's activities and sleep patterns.

"Your Smartphone Can Tell If You're Bored"
Technology Review, September 2, 2015
Researchers at Telefonica Research in Spain have developed an algorithm that enables a smartphone to determine whether or not its user is bored.

"Vint Cerf: 'Sometimes I'm Terrified' by the IoT"
Network World, August 25, 2015
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM past president Vint Cerf says he finds certain aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) worrisome, particularly its integration of appliances and bug-prone software.

"At Microsoft, Software-Defined Networking Takes Cloudy Turn"
eWeek, August 20, 2015
Microsoft has thrown its support behind software-defined networking and made it a major part of its presentation at ACM'sSIGCOMM 2015 conferencein London.

"IBM's 'Rodent Brain' Chip Could Make Our Phones Hyper-Smart"
Wired, August 17, 2015
IBM researchers say they have built the digital equivalent of a rodent brain encompassing 48 TrueNorth chips, an experimental processor designed to emulate neurons. TrueNorth is currently suitable for only one aspect of deep learning—enabling the neural network to execute models it has been trained for—but IBM's Dharmendra Modha, 2009 ACM Gordon Bell Prize recipient, notes this is appropriate.

"For 40 Years, Computer Scientists Looked for a Solution That Doesn't Exist"
Boston Globe, August 10, 2015
Creating a faster method for performing the "edit distance" calculation—a challenge computer scientists have worked on for four decades—was demonstrated as futile by MIT researchers at theACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2015).

"Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System"
IEEE Spectrum, August 6, 2015
Research by Japanese researchers to see how mall patrons would react to a social robot was presented at the10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015).

"Intelligent Robots Don't Need to Be Conscious to Turn Against Us"
Business Insider, August 5, 2015
University of California, Berkeley professor Stuart Russell, founder of the university's Center for Intelligent Systems and 2005 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award recipient, says artificial intelligence (AI) does not have to achieve consciousness to be threatening.

"Turing Award-Winner Stonebraker on the Future of Taming Big Data"
Forbes, July 29, 2015
In a lecture at MIT's 9th Annual Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Symposium, 2014 ACM A. M. Turing Award recipient Michael Stonebraker discussed how the future of big data usage hinges on several factors, one of which is the need to exploit falling computer memory costs to store data longer and retrieve it at faster speeds.

"Artificial Intelligence Expert Likens AI Dangers to Nuclear Weapons"
Naked Security, July 24, 2015
University of California professor Stuart Russell, 2005 recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, says the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) research are as grave as those of nuclear technology.

"What Is a 'Computer' Anymore?"
The Atlantic, July 20, 2015
IBM Cognitive Computing Group founder Dharmendra Modha, recipient of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2009, foresees computers becoming increasingly adaptable to humans, instead of vice-versa, with the emergence of brain-inspired computing and its integration into modern computing infrastructures.

"Research Reveals How Advertisers Play the Online Bidding Game"
Cornell Chronicle, July 14, 2015
Researchers led by Cornell University professor Eva Tardos have proposed a method for estimating what advertisers feel an ad is worth based on what computer scientists call "no-regret learning." The research was selected for the Best Paper Award at the16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC15).

"Firing Squad Synchronization, Computer Science's Most Macabre-Sounding Problem"
Motherboard, July 14, 2015
The solution to the problem of getting a firing squad to fire in sync was worked out by computer science pioneers John McCarthy (1971 ACM A. M. Turing Award recipient) and Marvin Minsky (1969 Turing Award recipient) in the early 1960s.

"Cutting Cost and Power Consumption for Big Data"
MIT News, July 10, 2015
MIT researchers are developing a new system that could enable flash-based servers to perform as well as RAM-based servers, but at less cost and using less energy. They presented their system at theInternational Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).

PLDI 2015:
"Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers"
MIT News, July 9, 2015
MIT researchers presented Helium, a program designed to automatically fix existing code without requiring the original source, at ACM's SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

"Researchers Look to Bots, Big Data to Fix Software Flaws"
eWeek, July 22, 2015
MIT researchers presented Code Phage, which is able to take pieces of one code that can counter a vulnerability and graft it into another piece of software.

SIGGRAPH 2015:
"Erase Obstructions From Photos With a Click"
Technology Review, August 4, 2015
IT researchers presented algorithm to separate an image's foreground from its background in order to remove unwanted obstructions.

"MIT Camera Culture Group Develops the 'eyeSelfie' to Help Monitor Eye Health"
Boston Globe, August 5, 2015
MIT Media Lab researchers developed eyeSelfie, a low-cost, handheld device for taking images of the retina, optic nerve, and vasculature.

"3D Cursors Sculpt at SIGGRAPH"
EE Times, August 9, 2015
University of Montreal researchers demonstrated a system that uses a tablet to control a 3D cursor that can be used to draw and manipulate objects in 3D simulations.

"Information in Bright Sunlight and Darkness"
Carnegie Mellon News, August 10, 2015
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Toronto have created a mathematical model to help address a major problem of depth-sensing cameras: their inability to work in bright light, especially sunlight.

"UMass Amherst Computer Scientists Introduce New Graphics Software"
UMass Amherst, August 11, 2015
Computer scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Evangelos Kalogerakis have developed a software modeling program that can compare the style similarity of 3D objects.

"Animation Research Moves Forward, One Wardrobe at a Time"
Georgia Tech News Center, August 11, 2015
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers developed algorithm that enables virtual characters to intelligently manipulate simulated cloth in order to put on clothes and get dressed.

Nothing cryptic: Israeli scientist works to simplify information security
JNS.org, June 24, 2015
2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences recipient Dan Boneh talks about ensuring security and privacy for mobile phone users, PDF document sharers, and others.

When to Keep Fitness Goals a Secret
The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2015
Proceedings paper from CHI 2015showed that people who used Facebook were less likely to set fitness goals in the first place than others who kept their commitments to themselves.

Longstanding Problem Put to Rest
MIT News, June 10, 2015
In their STOC 2015 conference paper, MIT researcher Piotr Indyk (who, along with Andrei Broder and Moses S. Charikar, received the 2012 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award) and MIT student Arturs Backurs demonstrate new solution to NP-complete problem.

Microsoft Algorithm Improves Directions in Large Networks for Bing Maps
EurekAlert, June 9, 2015
Microsoft researchers say Customizable Route Planning more accurately estimates the time needed for turns, U-turns, road closures, and traffic jams. The research leveraged a classic algorithm by 1972 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra.

Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap: How One Woman Is Making a Difference in Many Lives
The Conversation, June 8, 2015
Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College and former president of ACM, says the decline of women's participation in computer science (CS) can be reversed.

Code.org Inks 11 New Partnerships to Help Expand Computer Science Education
GeekWire, June 3, 2015
Code.org this week announced 11 new partnerships with organizations dedicated to helping the computer science education advocate reach even more schools than it could on its own. (ACM is a partner of Code.org.)

To Handle Big Data, Shrink It
MIT News, May 20, 2015
MIT researchers will present an algorithm that finds the smallest possible approximation of a matrix that guarantees reliable computations at the 47th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 15).

Tech Giants Don't Want Obama to Give Police Access to Encrypted Phone Data
The Washington Post, May 19, 2015
A group of more than 140 technology companies, prominent technologists, and civil society groups have signed a letter addressed to President Barack Obama urging him to reject any government proposals that might allow law enforcement to force technology companies to install backdoors or otherwise weaken the encryption they use to secure their devices and data. The signatories include USACM, as well as policy experts such as SRI International Computer Science Lab principal scientist Peter G. Neumann, moderator of the ACM Risks Forum.

Code.org Targets High School Computer Science
USA Today, May 14, 2015
Code.org (of which ACM is a partner) is collaborating with College Board to work to expand computer science in US high schools and increase the number of female and minority students taking computer science courses. Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi says the nonprofit will provide the curriculum, tools, training, and funding to school districts that qualify.

Self-driving cars getting dinged in California
msn.com, May 11, 2015
A higher priority is teaching cars to avoid causing a serious accident that could set public and political acceptance of the technology back years, says ACM SIGBED Chair Raj Rajkumar.

Girls Just Want to Code. The Trick Is Making Sure They Don't Stop
CNet, May 8, 2015
Harvey Mudd College president and former ACM president Maria Klawe cites the trend of intimidation by a classroom where males are a majority discouraging girls' pursuit of STEM degrees as a clear argument for changing how schools teach computer science.

Nepal: CRICIS Computing Is Needed
CCC Blog, May 7, 2015
Texas A&M University computer science professor and ACM 2014 Lawler Award recipient Robin Murphy says the recent earthquake in Nepal illustrates the need for critical real-time computing and information systems (CRICIS) computing.

Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Calls for Rapid Web Security Enhancements
eWeek, May 5, 2015
The need for security was a recurring theme of the remarks made by Internet pioneer and past ACM president Vint Cerf at the National Press Club.

One Way to Reduce Email Stress: Re-Invent the Mailing List
MIT News, April 27, 2015
MIT CSAIL researchers present prototype system Murmur—which they hope will improve the experience of using email mailing lists by incorporating popular social media features such as upvoting, following, and blocking—at CHI 2015.

RSA: Panel Calls NSA Access to Encryption Keys a Bad Idea
Network World, April 22, 2015
Panelists at the RSA 2015 security conference's cryptography panel this week expressed skepticism about the encryption key escrow schemes being put forward by the US government to ensure it has access to encrypted communications data. On the panel were 2002 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipients Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, and Whitfield Diffie, co-recipient of the ACM 1996 Paris Kanellakis Award.

Vigilance Is the Price of Secure Computing
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 20, 2015
ACM SIGACCESS Chair Andrew Sears believes that a serious and sustained investment in cybersecurity education is key to keeping the US safe.

Explore Resources for Women Undergrads in Science, Engineering
US News & World Report, April 20, 2015
ACM-W Chair Valerie Barr cites the importance of "celebrations"—face-to-face mentoring events—to network and build community, and provide support for women in STEM.

These Nightmare Bracelets Were Made by a New 3D Printing Design Method
Motherboard, April 9, 2015
New type of user interface called Tactum that uses skin as the primary input method will win "best paper honorable mention" at CHI 2015.

Stanford Crypto Expert Dan Boneh Wins $175K Computer Science Award
Network World, March 31, 2015
Stanford University's Dan Boneh honored by ACM and Infosys Foundation for his cryptography work.

Wearable Technology Can Help With Public Speaking
University of Rochester NewsCenter, March 30, 2015
University of Rochester team presented an intelligent user interface for smart glasses at ACM's Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI 2015).

Reviewing Online Homework at Scale
MIT News, March 30, 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a system that automatically compares students' solutions to programming assignments, and batches those that use the same methods. They presented the OverCode system at CHI 2015.

Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind
MIT News, March 10, 2015
MIT researchers will present a paper describing the device at the ACM CHI 2015 conference.

What Can We Do to Improve Computer Education?
Opensource.com, March 6, 2015
The SIGCSE 2015 Technical Symposium provided an opportunity to address issues with computer programs, curricula, and courses at all levels of instruction.

Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, March 4, 2015
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers presented their teaching tool, called CoWriter, at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Dozens of Tech, Education, and Nonprofit Execs Urge Passage of Washington Computer Science Bill
GeekWire, March 4, 2015
More than 50 business and education leaders have signed a strongly worded appeal to the Washington state House of Representatives, urging them to vote for a bill that would expand computer science education in the state's schools. Among the 53 signers of the letter are Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi.

Flexible Sensors Turn Skin into a Touch-Sensitive Interaction Space for Mobile Devices
Saarland University, March 4, 2015
Researchers at Saarland and Carnegie Mellon universities will present their iSkin project at the ACM CHI 2015 conference. Their paper won the conference's Best Paper Award.

SC15 Chair on HPC Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
HPC Wire, March 3, 2015
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the November event. To publicize the conference, SC15 has launched a blog and newsletter featuring news about the future of the SC conference series.

Why Computers Still Struggle to Tell the Time
PC World, March 2, 2015
Speaking at ACM's Applicative conference, George Neville-Neil, ACM Queue's Kode Vicious columnist said the problem stems largely from the hardware most computers use to tell time: often inexpensive crystal oscillators that lose precision over time.

Could IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip Change the Way Computers Are Built?
The Washington Post, March 2, 2015
Dharmendra Modha, head of brain-inspired computing at IBM who received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2009 for his work on cortical simulations, says the company wants to create a "brain in a box" that consumes less than 1 kilowatt of power.

Communicating Science Broadly: NSF launches new multimedia features to showcase research
NSF.gov, February 26, 2015
A new video interview series with NSF-funded scientists and program officers features ACM Distinguished Speaker and Distinguished Member Juan Gilbert.

Queen's Researchers in Bid to Develop World's Fastest Supercomputers
Queen's University Belfast, February 24, 2015
"This project sheds valuable insight on how to use many core-based systems effectively, proving major benefits for a wide range of scientific endeavors that depend on large-scale simulations," says ACM Fellow and 2013 Ken Kennedy Award recipient Jack Dongarra.

Google's Vint Cerf Warns of "Digital Dark Age"
BBC News, February 13, 2015
ACM past president Vint Cerf, one of the pioneers of Internet technology and now a vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, worries about a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" in which the rapid pace of technological advancement will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access.

Researcher Receives $1 Million NSF Grant to Devise New Supercomputing Model
Texas Tech Today, February 10, 2015
Texas Tech University professor and George Michael HPC Fellowship recipient Yong Chen has received a $1-million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a faster and improved method for supercomputing.

Legislators Want Computer Science to Count for Language Requirement
Campus Technology, February 9, 2015
Only 40 percent of high schools count credits earned in a computer science class toward requirements, while the rest treat such courses as electives, according to a recent study by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA).

School Leaders Mostly Mystified by Computer Science Education
THE Journal, February 2, 2015
A disparity exists in the type of computer science (CS) education available to students in higher- versus lower-income schools, according to a new Oracle Academy survey of US teachers administered by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA).

Sustained Investment in Research Is Needed to Combat Cyberthreats, CISE AD Tells Congress
Computing Research Policy Blog, January 29, 2015
In testimony before the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Research and Technology Subcommittee on Tuesday, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) assistant director and ACM Fellow Jim Kurose said sustained basic research investment is necessary for countering growing cyberthreats.

Out of Control AI Will Not Kill Us, Believes Microsoft Research Chief
BBC News, January 28, 2015
Microsoft Research chief and ACM Fellow Eric Horvitz, who recently received the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize for outstanding advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research, thinks AI systems eventually could achieve consciousness, but he doubts they could become a threat to humanity.

MOOCs Aim to Strengthen Computer Science and Physics Teaching in Middle and High Schools
Forbes, January 13, 2015
Many agree that one of the best ways to close the gender and diversity gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is to begin educating students in those fields earlier in their K-12 careers, writes Harvey Mudd College president and former ACM president Maria Klawe.

The Hype Is Dead, but MOOCs Are Marching On
Knowledge@Wharton, January 5, 2015
Coursera co-founder and recipient of the 2007 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences Daphne Koller says much of the cooling of enthusiasm for massive open online courses in the past two years has more to do with outsized expectations than unimpressive performance.