Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2676393
Gregory Mone
{"title":"Intelligent living","authors":"Gregory Mone","doi":"10.1145/2676393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676393","url":null,"abstract":"After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"3 1","pages":"15-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91340762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2684423
Gregory Mone
{"title":"Q&A: From Esterel to HipHop","authors":"Gregory Mone","doi":"10.1145/2684423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2684423","url":null,"abstract":"This year's CNRS Gold Medal recipient, Gérard Berry, discusses his roots in computer science, why computers are stupid, and how he has helped to simplify programming.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"57 4 1","pages":"120-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91148467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2631912
S. Marsella, J. Gratch
{"title":"Computationally modeling human emotion","authors":"S. Marsella, J. Gratch","doi":"10.1145/2631912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2631912","url":null,"abstract":"Computer models of emotion inform theories of human intelligence and advance human-centric applications.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"67 1","pages":"56-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84043001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2675742
C. Edwards
{"title":"Decoding the language of human movement","authors":"C. Edwards","doi":"10.1145/2675742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2675742","url":null,"abstract":"Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"2 1","pages":"12-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72768076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2676391
K. Kirkpatrick
{"title":"Sensors for seniors","authors":"K. Kirkpatrick","doi":"10.1145/2676391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676391","url":null,"abstract":"In-home technologies are helping seniors stay aware, healthy, and in touch.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"47 1","pages":"17-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86448088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2682922
M. Guzdial
{"title":"Meeting student and teacher needs in computing education","authors":"M. Guzdial","doi":"10.1145/2682922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2682922","url":null,"abstract":"The <i>Communications</i> Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of <i>Communications</i>, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.<br /><br /><b>twitter</b><br /><b>Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACM</b><br /><br /><b>http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm</b><br /><br />Mark Guzdial reports on the 2014 meeting of the ACM Education Council, where updates from its global representatives led to action plans.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"60 1","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76680350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2676857
M. Best
{"title":"The internet that Facebook built","authors":"M. Best","doi":"10.1145/2676857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2676857","url":null,"abstract":"The on-ramp might appear free but exiting takes a toll.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"5 1","pages":"21-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87051163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2684460
Bobby Schnabel, John White
{"title":"Pathways to computing careers","authors":"Bobby Schnabel, John White","doi":"10.1145/2684460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2684460","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the national discussion about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has become increasingly prominent. Accompanying this discussion, some questions have been raised about whether there really is a \" STEM problem \" when it comes to filling current and future jobs in the U.S. Two things are abundantly clear and critically important: the great majority of the current and foreseeable STEM jobs are in computing and IT; and there is great demand in these areas spread across all sectors of the economy. Whether in Silicon Valley or the nation's heartland, every region is facing rapid growth in demand for workers in computing and information technology-based jobs. ACM has been at the heart of the U.S. policy discussion regarding computing education and the workforce for a number of years through its Education Policy Committee (ACM EPC). The EPC has played an important role in bringing attention and action to these issues, including a seminal role in the creation of the annual U.S. Computer Science Education Week, and a major role in contributing to the development of the non-profit organization Code.org. Code.org has become the focal point for the community's effort to make computing education ubiquitous in U.S. K–12 schools. Indeed, the organization sponsored the international Hour of Code—an introduction to computing that has reached over 40 million students worldwide. The EPC's 2010 report Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K–12 Computer Science in the Digital Age (runningonempty.acm.org) had a significant impact in bringing awareness and energy to these issues. is the sequel to Running on Empty. The earlier report focused on K–12 computing education policy and availability , state by state and in aggregate. The Pathways report focuses on IT workforce needs at the U.S. state and national levels, along with examples of successful educational pathways that help meet these needs, and policy recommendations to government and economic leaders. The workforce analysis in the Path‑ ways report shows there is significant demand for IT workforce professionals in all 50 states. The examples of strategies to address this need illustrate a diverse set of educational approaches that have been successful across a wide spectrum of geographical regions , socioeconomic conditions, and slices of the K–12 educational systems. These examples provide a rich set of starting points for other states and school districts to consider and potentially emulate. The Pathways report contains a nationwide call to …","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"92 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82091753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2629458
M. Naedele, R. Kazman, Yuanfang Cai
{"title":"Making the case for a \"manufacturing execution system\" for software development","authors":"M. Naedele, R. Kazman, Yuanfang Cai","doi":"10.1145/2629458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2629458","url":null,"abstract":"Seeking to improve information integration throughout the manufacturing process.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"54 1","pages":"33-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79092871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Commun. ACMPub Date : 2014-11-26DOI: 10.1145/2677030
D. Chisnall
{"title":"No such thing as a general-purpose processor","authors":"D. Chisnall","doi":"10.1145/2677030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2677030","url":null,"abstract":"And the belief in such a device is harmful.","PeriodicalId":10645,"journal":{"name":"Commun. ACM","volume":"56 1","pages":"44-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86792010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}