USENIX (the organization) stopped sponsoring #USENIX (the conference), so “SIGOPS stepped in to continue the conference in response to a community petition.” #ACM
on 02026-08-19list of #ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards “for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer and Information #Security” #toread
on 02026-01-15The #ACM’s #open-access project: “Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.”
on 02025-12-19Bertrand Meyer claims that the term “software engineering” dates back to at least 01966 when #ACM president Anthony A. Oettinger published it in a letter to the community, explaining: “While much of what we do is or has its root in not only computer and information science, but also many older and better defined sciences, even more is not at all scientific but of a professional and engineering nature.” #history #etymology
on 02025-11-11