Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM is the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). It was established in 1957 and is sent to all ACM members. Articles are intended for readers with backgrounds in all areas of computer science and information systems. The focus is on the practical implications of advances in information technology and associated management issues; ACM also publishes a variety of more theoretical journals.

The magazine straddles the boundary of a science magazine, trade magazine, and a scientific journal. While the content is subject to peer review, the articles published are often summaries of research that may also be published elsewhere. Material published must be accessible and relevant to a broad readership

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The Sweeter Lesson (2026) — Moshe Y. Vardi

The mythos of model interpretability (2018) — Zachary C. Lipton

Why Logical Clocks Are Easy (2016) — Carlos Baquero, Nuno Preguiça

Spatial Computing (2016) — Shashi Shekhar, Steven K. Feiner, Walid G. Aref

Self-adaptive software needs quantitative verification at runtime (2012) — Radu Calinescu, Carlo Ghezzi, Marta Kwiatkowska, Raffaela Mirandola

The most ancient marketing (2011) — Jaron Lanier

Will software engineering ever be engineering? (2011) — Michael Davis

Computational journalism (2011) — Sarah Cohen, James T. Hamilton, Fred Turner

Anonymity is not privacy: technical perspective (2011) — Vitaly Shmatikov

The Rise of Molecular Machines (2011) — Kirk L. Kroeker

The software industry is the problem (2011) — Poul-Henning Kamp

The legacy of Steve Jobs (2011) — Michael A. Cusumano

Improving brain-computer interfaces (2011) — Kirk L. Kroeker

Abstraction in hardware system design (2011) — Rishiyur S. Nikhil

Living in a Digital World (2011) — Samuel Greengard

Seeing is not enough (2011) — Tom Geller

Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (2011) — Paul Hyman

Making Sense of Revision-control Systems (2009) — Bryan O'Sullivan

Computing Needs Time (2009) — Edward A. Lee

Toward Nature-Inspired Computing (2006) — Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui

Method engineering for OO systems development (2003) — Brian Henderson-Sellers

Computation Beyond Turing Machines (2003) — Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin

An Agent-based Approach for Building Complex Software Systems (2001) — Nicholas R. Jennings

Amorphous Computing (2000) — Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight Jr., Radhika Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Jay Sussman, Ron Weiss

Agents with Power (1999) — Rune Gustavsson

Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms (1997) — Peter Wegner

The role of emotion in believable agents (1994) — Joseph Bates

Elements of Interaction: Turing Award Lecture (1993) — Robin Milner

Coordination Languages and Their Significance (1992) — David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero

An Introduction to Prolog III (1990) — Alain Colmerauer

Linda in Context (1989) — Nicholas Carriero, David Gelernter

Algorithm = Logic + Control (1979) — Robert A. Kowalski

The Paradigms of Programming (1979) — Robert W. Floyd

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) — Leslie Lamport

On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules (1972) — David Lorge Parnas

ELIZA—a Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine (1966) — Joseph Weizenbaum

A machine program for theorem-proving (1962) — Martin Davis, George Logemann, Donald Loveland