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

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

 Living in a Digital World (2011) — Samuel Greengard

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

 Seeing is not enough (2011) — Tom Geller

 The most ancient marketing (2011) — Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 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

 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

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

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

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

 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