ACM has opened more than 117,500 articles published between 1951 and the end of 2000, during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, which include many foundational articles by the pioneers of the field, are now freely available to view and download via the ACM DL.
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Cornell University
In the mid-1970s, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman invented public key cryptography, an innovation that ultimately changed the world. Today public key cryptography provides the primary basis for secure communication over the internet, enabling online ...
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
,Geography and Geoinformation Science Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
,Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
This book presents fundamental new techniques for understanding and processing geospatial data. These “spatial gems” articulate and highlight insightful ideas that often remain unstated in graduate textbooks, and which are not the focus of research ...
Clemson University
,Wellesley College
,Toronto Metropolitan University
,This book investigates multiple facets of the emerging discipline of Tangible, Embodied, and Embedded Interaction (TEI). This is a story of atoms and bits. We explore the interweaving of the physical and digital, toward understanding some of their wildly ...
CWI, Amsterdam and University of Warsaw
,University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research Ltd
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-source shortest ...
The ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) provides a mechanism to publish the contents of conferences, technical symposia and workshops in the ACM Digital Library, increasing …
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This list of classic books is the result of a poll ACM conducted where members named their favorite computer science books.
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In the decades since the 1960s, ACM, along with leading professional and scientific computing societies, has endeavored to tailor...
View MoreThe National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has a long history of funding community “visioning” workshops that aim to bring together experts from academia, industry, and government to engage in open discussions about future...
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Case studies look retrospectively at challenges and problems already addressed, while attempting to draw out some of the lessons learned in the course of those endeavors (so readers needn't learn those lessons for themselves the hard way).
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ACM TechBriefs is a series of short technical bulletins, which present a balanced perspective on the impact of specific developments or applications of technology.
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