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 (article in journal, 2012) — Radu Calinescu, Carlo Ghezzi, Marta Kwiatkowska, Raffaela Mirandola

The most ancient marketing (article in journal, 2011) — Jaron Lanier

Will software engineering ever be engineering? (article in journal, 2011) — Michael Davis

The software industry is the problem (article in journal, 2011) — Poul-Henning Kamp

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

Improving brain-computer interfaces (article in journal, 2011) — Kirk L. Kroeker

The Rise of Molecular Machines (article in journal, 2011) — Kirk L. Kroeker

The legacy of Steve Jobs (article in journal, 2011) — Michael A. Cusumano

Living in a Digital World (article in journal, 2011) — Samuel Greengard

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

Seeing is not enough (article in journal, 2011) — Tom Geller

Making Sense of Revision-control Systems (article in journal, 2009) — Bryan O'Sullivan

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

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

Method engineering for OO systems development (article in journal, 2003) — Brian Henderson-Sellers

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

Amorphous Computing (article in journal, 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 (article in journal, 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 (article in journal, 1999) — Rune Gustavsson

Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms (article in journal, 1997) — Peter Wegner

Elements of Interaction: Turing Award Lecture (article in journal, 1993) — Robin Milner

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

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

The Paradigms of Programming (article in journal, 1979) — Robert W. Floyd

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

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