Description of the 3 major, freely available, Unix-like operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD. Crossroads is the student magazine of the ACM.

"The Java language is compiled into a platform independent bytecode format. Much of the information contained in the original source code remains in the bytecode, thus decompilation is easy. We will examine how code obfuscation can help protect Java b...

Article on Ray Tracing in the student magazine of the ACM.

"During the fall of 1996, the Georgia Insitute of Technology initiated the transition from teaching procedural programming to teaching object-oriented programming at the introductory level. Our main goal was to produce an introductory class that taugh...

Summary of Unix standardization movement.

An article about the construction of a Beowulf and its use as a teaching tool.

Computer Science curricula recommendations for graduate, undergraduate, and high school.

Online registration, calendar, and links to ACM sponsored conferences.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student chapters at various universities hold programming contests for high school students. This is a list of the sponsor schools.

Interview by ACM Crossroads magazine of Susan Puglia, Executive Sponsor of the 2000 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.