Communications of the ACM

So, the departments exist.

When do they decide what the degree actually contains? Curriculum 68, March 1968, published in the Communications of the ACM.

And its own retrospective says it established computer science as an academic field of study and specified to a great extent its content.

That's the moment the field stops being whatever each department happens to be teaching and starts being a defined thing.

Evgeny Gabrilovich and Alex Gauntmaker.

The Homograph Attack, published in Communications of the ACM in 2002.

Homograph as in words that look the same.

Words that look the same and aren't.

This idea that maybe go-to statements weren't the best idea as a way to structure your programs.

And so he does, he goes back to Eindhoven and he writes up this same thing he was saying, basically, and he sends it to, to Communications of the ACM for publication.

Nicholas Wirth, who is like the creator of Pascal, right? A very proud figure, also was very heavily involved in ALGOL and all this sort of stuff.

Like, you know, language designer guy.

He is the editor who is in charge of getting this thing published, I guess.

I'm not exactly sure how things work at the communications of the ACM.

He doesn't want to wait to have it published.

He doesn't want to take the time to like go through the referee process or whatever.