Articles Tagged: History of computing
Articles & Features
How Computers Transformed Environmental Science
By Deepak Mahto, May 2024
Beyond Genetics: The Evolution of Bio-Digital Innovations
By Deepak Mahto, February 2024
Human-Robot Collaboration
By Deepak Mahto, October 2023
Redefining Creativity
By Deepak Mahto, June 2023
Augmented Humans from Myth to Reality
By XRDS Staff, January 2023
SECTION: Features
Ideas from Actions, Alternative Anatomical Architectures
In this curation of his work, performance artist Stelarc, explains the process of extending his body and his self while exploring movement, sound, and autonomy.
By Stelarc, January 2023
DEI takes center stage
By XRDS Staff, July 2022
The journey to smart cities
By Manandeep, April 2022
Beware of toxic computing
By Manandeep, September 2021
The amalgamation of technology and sustainability
By Manandeep, June 2021
DEPARTMENT: Back
Hydrogen cars versus electric vehicles, which is more sustainable?
By Kun Jin, June 2021
SECTION: Features
Socializing the web
Though today we think of the web and social media as nearly synonymous, the technology of the early web made social interaction difficult. The author discusses her work creating some of the web's earliest social applications and asks why our interfaces for seeing and communicating with each other online are still so primitive.
By Judith Donath, March 2021
Music, industry, and researching your own hidden curriculum
Whether working in academia, industry, or entertainment building a career means navigating a variety of challenges. The authors revisit a number of lessons learned while building systems (or records), how to transfer those lessons to new domains, how to turn your research skills on what you haven't learned yet, and build an extra curriculum for yourself.
By Henriette Cramer, Avriel Epps-Darling, March 2021
Altered images, art or propaganda?
By Daniela Zieba, September 2020
Right place, right time, right people
By Daniela Zieba, July 2020
DEPARTMENT: Milestones
Solving global issues through computing
By Jovian Anthony Jaison, November 2019
AI then and now
By Daniela Zieba, April 2019
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
A world full of emojis
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference coverage, to security and privacy, to CS theory. Selected blog posts, edited for print, are featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety. If you are interested in joining as a student blogger, please contact us.
By Maria Gaci, January 2019
A Brief History of Gamification
By Alok Pandey, September 2017
Startups: then and now
By Alok Pandey, June 2017
SECTION: Features
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum on the moving frontier between mathematics and computer science
Young and early-career researchers at the 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum discuss how the frontier between mathematics and computer science is shifting, what the future promises, and the implications the frontier's shape and dynamics will have on both fields.
By Edmon Begoli, Vincent Schlegel, Michael Atiyah, Praise Adeyemo, Tim Baarslag, April 2017
COLUMN: INIT
The center and the periphery: beyond Eurocentrism
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
Additive manufacturing
By Jay Patel, April 2016
The timeline of things
By Jay Patel, December 2015
FEATURE: Features
Profile: Matthew Pryor
Using tech to manage droughts, from Australia to California
By Adrian Scoică, December 2015
SECTION: Features
Profile: Susumu Tachi
The scientist who invented telexistence
By Adrian Scoică, November 2015
SECTION: Features
The Wrens of Bletchley Park
The lives and times of the British women who operated Colossus, and their all-important role in events leading to D-Day and the close of the Second World War.
By Michael Smith, March 2015
