Communications of the ACM

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The power of deep neural networks has sparked renewed interest in reinforcement learning, with applications to games, robotics, and beyond.

Open development and sharing of software gained widespread acceptance 15 years ago, and the practice is accelerating.

Mobile apps make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create massive impact on social causes ranging from world hunger to domestic violence.

Computer security problems have far exceeded the limits of the human brain. What can we do about it?

Seeking to reframe computational thinking as computational participation.

Keeping ego out of software-design review.

Considering the benefits and downsides of collaborative research.

ShiViz is a new distributed system debugging visualization tool.

SQL has a brilliant future as a major figure in the pantheon of data representations.

Microservices aren't for every company, and the journey isn't easy.

The aim is to improve cities' management of natural and municipal resources and in turn the quality of life of their citizens.

John H. Holland's general theories of adaptive processes apply across biological, cognitive, social, and computational systems.

The skills and knowledge that earn promotions are not always enough to ensure success in the new position.

Algorithmic advances take advantage of the structure of massive biological data landscape.

From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.

Even a little genetic engineering can render us too comfortable for our own good.