It contains peer-reviewed articles, regular columns, and interviews on current computing-related issues.

Subscriptions of the magazine are provided free of cost to IEEE Computer Society members.

The current editor in chief (since 1 January 2020) is Jeff Voas of NIST.

[2] Computer won the 2018 Folio: Eddie Award for its September 2017 issue, "Blockchain Technology in Finance", in the category of Association/Nonprofit, App/Digital Edition.

Computer also received Folio: Eddie Digital Award honorable mentions in 2019, 2017, and 2016.