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# Communications of the ACM 2015: all accepted papers

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1. **[Commonsense reasoning and commonsense knowledge in artificial intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/davis-2015-commonsense-reasoning-commonsense-knowledge-artificial/)**Ernest Davis, Gary F. Marcus*428 citations · our summary*
2. **[Exascale computing and big data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699414)**Daniel A. Reed, Jack J. Dongarra*418 citations*
3. **[How Amazon web services uses formal methods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699417)**Chris Newcombe, Tim Rath, Fan Zhang et al.*349 citations*
4. **[Bitcoin ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2701411)**Aviv Zohar*327 citations*
5. **[Passwords and the evolution of imperfect authentication ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699390)**Joseph Bonneau, Cormac Herley, Paul C. van Oorschot et al.*258 citations*
6. **[In defense of soundiness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2644805)**Benjamin Livshits, Manu Sridharan, Yannis Smaragdakis et al.*238 citations*
7. **[Framing sustainability as a property of software quality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2714560)**Patricia Lago, Sedef Akinli Koçak, Ivica Crnković et al.*229 citations*
8. **[Propositions as types ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699407)**Philip L. Wadler*177 citations*
9. **[Security challenges for medical devices ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2667218)**Johannes R. Sametinger, Jerzy W. Rozenblit, Roman Lysecky et al.*167 citations*
10. **[Verifying computations without reexecuting them ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2641562)**Michael Walfish, Andrew J. Blumberg*164 citations*
11. **[Colored Petri nets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2663340)**Kurt Jensen, Lars Michael Kristensen*155 citations*
12. **[What makes Paris look like Paris? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2830541)**Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta et al.*151 citations*
13. **[Inductive programming meets the real world ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2736282)**Sumit Gulwani, José Hernández‐Orallo, Emanuel Kitzelmann et al.*136 citations*
14. **[Local Laplacian filters ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2723694)**Sylvain Paris, Samuel William Hasinoff, Jan Kautz*133 citations*
15. **[Soylent ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2791285)**Michael S. Bernstein, Greg Little, Robert C. Miller et al.*116 citations*
16. **[Open data and civic apps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2756542)**Melissa Lee, Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Douglas Wareham*88 citations*
17. **[Spatial computing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2756547)**Shashi Shekhar, Steven Feiner, Walid G. Aref*87 citations*
18. **[Internet use and psychological well-being ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2739043)**Robert E. Kraut, Moira Burke*81 citations*
19. **[Rise of concerns about AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2770869)**Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric Horvitz*76 citations*
20. **[Unifying logic and probability ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699411)**Stuart Russell*75 citations*
21. **[Using rhetorical structure in sentiment analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699418)**Alexander Hogenboom, Flavius Frăsincar, Franciska M. G. de Jong et al.*71 citations*
22. **[Managing your digital life ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2670528)**Serge Abiteboul, Benjamin André, Daniel Kaplan*65 citations*
23. **[The real software crisis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2658987)**Shriram Krishnamurthi, Jan Vítek*64 citations*
24. **[Privacy implications of health information seeking on the web ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2658983)**Timothy Libert*63 citations*
25. **[To govern IT, or not to govern IT? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2656385)**Carlos Juiz, Mark Toomey*61 citations*
26. **[Estonia ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2754951)**Gary Anthes*57 citations*
27. **[Why people post benevolent and malicious comments online ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2739042)**SoHyun Lee, Hee‐Woong Kim*53 citations*
28. **[Reaching a broader population of students through "unplugged" activities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2723671)**Thomas J. Cortina*52 citations*
29. **[The new smart cities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2771297)**Gregory Mone*51 citations*
30. **[Challenges of memory management on modern NUMA systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814328)**Fabien Gaud, Baptiste Lepers, Justin Funston et al.*50 citations*
31. **[Programming in K-12 science classrooms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2822517)**Pratim Sengupta, Amanda Dickes, Amy Voss Farris et al.*49 citations*
32. **[The arbitrariness of reviews, and advice for school administrators ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2732417)**John C. Langford, Mark Guzdial*49 citations*
33. **[Permissionless innovation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2790832)**Henry W. Chesbrough, Marshall Van Alstyne*48 citations*
34. **[Privacy behaviors after Snowden ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2663341)**Sören Preibusch*47 citations*
35. **[Why knowledge representation matters ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2803170)**Yoav Shoham*47 citations*
36. **[Smart data pricing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2756543)**Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe‐Wong, Sangtae Ha et al.*46 citations*
37. **[Growing pains for deep learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2771283)**Chris Edwards*45 citations*
38. **[Programming the quantum future ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699415)**Benoît Valiron, Neil J. Ross, Peter Selinger et al.*43 citations*
39. **[Evaluation without ground truth in social media research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2666680)**Reza Zafarani, Huan Liu*40 citations*
40. **[Software dataplane verification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2823400)**Mihai Dobrescu, Katerina Argyraki*40 citations*
41. **[Immutability changes everything ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2844112)**Pat Helland*39 citations*
42. **[Network science, web science, and internet science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699416)**Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall, Jon Crowcroft et al.*37 citations*
43. **[On the categorization of scientific citation profiles in computer science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2701412)**Tanmoy Chakraborty, Suhansanu Kumar, Pawan Goyal et al.*37 citations*
44. **[Who builds a house without drawing blueprints? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2736348)**Leslie Lamport*37 citations*
45. **[Model-based testing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2697399)**Robert V. Binder, Bruno Legeard, Anne Krämer*36 citations*
46. **[Security for mobile and cloud frontiers in healthcare ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2790830)**David F. Kotz, Kevin Fu, Carl A. Gunter et al.*36 citations*
47. **[The moral challenges of driverless cars ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2788477)**Keith Kirkpatrick*36 citations*
48. **[Is "good enough" computing good enough? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2742482)**Logan Kugler*33 citations*
49. **[Hacking nondeterminism with induction and coinduction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2713167)**Filippo Bonchi, Damien Pous*32 citations*
50. **[Hadoop superlinear scalability ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2719919)**Neil J. Günther, Paul Puglia, Kristofer Tomasette*32 citations*
51. **[Trustworthy hardware from untrusted components ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699412)**Simha Sethumadhavan, Adam Waksman, Matthew Suozzo et al.*32 citations*
52. **[Keys under doormats ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814825)**Harold Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steven M. Bellovin et al.*31 citations*
53. **[What's the best way to teach computer science to beginners? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2714488)**Mark Guzdial*31 citations*
54. **[Convolution engine ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2735841)**Wajahat Qadeer, Rehan Hameed, Ofer Shacham et al.*30 citations*
55. **[Information cartography ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2735624)**Dafna Shahaf, Carlos Guestrin, Eric Horvitz et al.*30 citations*
56. **[Natural language translation at the intersection of AI and HCI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2767151)**Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning*29 citations*
57. **[Algebraic fingerprints for faster algorithms ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2742544)**Ioannis Koutis, Ryan Williams*28 citations*
58. **[Debugging high-performance computing applications at massive scales ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2667219)**Ignacio Laguna, Dong H. Ahn, Bronis R. de Supinski et al.*27 citations*
59. **[Personalizing maps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2756546)**Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto*27 citations*
60. **[Who owns IT? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2660765)**Stephen J. Andriole*27 citations*
61. **[Designing statistical privacy for your data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2660766)**Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Daniel Kifer*26 citations*
62. **[Python for beginners ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2716560)**Esther Shein*24 citations*
63. **[Decoding femininity in computer science in India ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2663339)**Roli Varma, Deepak Kapur*23 citations*
64. **[Discovering genes involved in disease and the mystery of missing heritability ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2817827)**Eleazar Eskin*23 citations*
65. **[Innovators assemble ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2804228)**Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley*23 citations*
66. **[Non-volatile storage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814342)**Mihir Nanavati, Malte Schwarzkopf, Jake Wires et al.*23 citations*
67. **[Automotive systems get smarter ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2811286)**Samuel Greengard*22 citations*
68. **[Forging relationships ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2754956)**Neil J. Savage*22 citations*
69. **[Future internets escape the simulator ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699392)**Mark Berman, Piet M. A. Demeester, Jae Wook Lee et al.*22 citations*
70. **[Learning through computational creativity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699391)**Leen‐Kiat Soh, Duane F. Shell, Elizabeth Ingraham et al.*22 citations*
71. **[Where code comes from ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2846088)**Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley*22 citations*
72. **[Bare-metal performance for virtual machines with exitless interrupts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2845648)**Nadav Amit, Abel Gordon, Nadav Har’El et al.*21 citations*
73. **[How to de-identify your data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814340)**Olivia Angiuli, Joe Blitzstein, Jim Waldo*21 citations*
74. **[Computing is history ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814845)**Thomas J. Misa*20 citations*
75. **[Electronic health records and patient safety ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2822515)**Muhammad Zia Hydari, Rahul Telang, William M. Marella*20 citations*
76. **[Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2699410)**Petra Saskia Bayerl, Babak Akhgar*20 citations*
77. **[Teach foundational language principles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2663342)**Thomas Ball, Benjamin G. Zorn*20 citations*
78. **[Turing lectureThe computer science of concurrency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2771951)**Leslie Lamport*20 citations*
79. **[Sketch-Thru-Plan ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2735589)**Philip R. Cohen, Edward Kaiser, M. Cecelia Buchanan et al.*19 citations*
80. **[Automated support for diagnosis and repair ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2658986)**Dalal Alrajeh, Jeff Kramer, Alessandra Russo et al.*18 citations*
81. **[Guided exploration of physically valid shapes for furniture design ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2801945)**Nobuyuki Umentani, Takeo Igarashi, Niloy J. Mitra*18 citations*
82. **[Putting the data science into journalism ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2742484)**Keith Kirkpatrick*18 citations*
83. **[The case for banning killer robots ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2835965)**Ronald C. Arkin*18 citations*
84. **[Toward more secure software ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2736281)**Dorothy E. Denning*18 citations*
85. **[We need a building code for building code ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2700341)**Carl E. Landwehr*18 citations*
86. **[Computing numerically with functions instead of numbers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814847)**Lloyd N. Trefethen*17 citations*
87. **[Crash consistency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2788401)**Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram V, Ramnatthan Alagappan et al.*17 citations*
88. **[Fail at scale ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2814330)**Ben Maurer*17 citations*
89. **[IllumiRoom ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2754391)**Brett R. Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek et al.*17 citations*
90. **[The science of managing data science ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2745390)**Kate Matsudaira*17 citations*
91. **[Can traditional programming bridge the ninja performance gap for parallel computing applications? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2742910)**Nadathur Satish, Changkyu Kim, Jatin Chhugani et al.*16 citations*
92. **[Increasing the participation of individuals with disabilities in computing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2835961)**Richard E. Ladner, Sheryl E. Burgstahler*16 citations*
93. **[NoDB ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2830508)**Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica‐Gajic, Miguel Branco et al.*16 citations*
94. **[There is no now ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2733108)**Justin Sheehy*16 citations*
95. **[What can be done about gender diversity in computing? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2816937)**Moshe Y. Vardi*16 citations*
96. **[Why did computer science make a hero out of Turing? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2658985)**Maarten Bullynck, Edgar Graham Daylight, Liesbeth De Mol*16 citations*
97. **[Testing web applications with state objects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2755501)**Arie van Deursen*15 citations*
98. **[Answering enumeration queries with the crowd ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2845644)**Beth Trushkowsky, Tim Kraska, Michael J. M. Franklin et al.*14 citations*
99. **[Is information technology destroying the middle class? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2666241)**Moshe Y. Vardi*14 citations*
100. **[Optimization as motion selection principle in robot action ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2743132)**Jean‐Paul Laumond, Nicolas Mansard, Jean Bernard Lasserre*14 citations*

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