Communications of the ACM

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

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Viewpoints

20 Technology Strategy and Management

The Business of Quantum Computing

Considering the similarities of quantum computing development to the early years of conventional computing.

By Michael A. Cusumano

23 Privacy and Security

A Pedagogic Cybersecurity Framework

A proposal for teaching the organizational, legal, and international aspects of cybersecurity.

By Peter Swire

27 Kode Vicious

The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code

Teach your junior programmers how to read code.

By George V. Neville-Neil

29 Viewpoint

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code

A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.

By Jean-François Abramatic, Roberto Di Cosmo, and Stefano Zacchiroli

32 Viewpoint

Are CS Conferences (Too)

Closed Communities?

Assessing whether newcomers have a more difficult time achieving paper acceptance at established conferences.

By Jordi Cabot, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, and Valerio Cosentino

Watch the authors discuss their work in this exclusive Communications video. https://cacm.acm.org/ videos/building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code

Departments

5 Cerf’s Up

The Internet in the 21st Century

By Vinton G. Cerf

6 Letters to the Editor

Hennessy and Patterson on the Roots of RISC

8 BLOG@CACM

Can We Use AI for Global Good?

Amir Banifatemi observes how the AI for Good Summit “allowed us to start a dialogue, find a common frame of reference, and decide how our steps would be smart and structured.”

31 Calendar

114 Careers

Last Byte

120 Q&A

Reaping the Benefits of a Diverse Background

Earlier this year, ACM named Dina Katabi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing for her creative contributions to wireless systems.