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Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

Technical Perspective: The ‘Art’ of Automatic Benchmark Extraction

"DIAMetrics," by Shaleen Deep et al., describes a versatile framework from Google for automatic extraction of benchmarks and their distributed execution and performance monitoring.

Peter Boncz

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2022

Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?

Carlos Baquero on whether using artificial intelligence provides an unfair advantage to writers.

Carlos Baquero

News Dec 1 2022

Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies

Digital technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holograms allow museums and other institutions to preserve historical events and tell stories in an engaging way.

Esther Shein

demonstration of the Skin & Bones app on a tablet computer

News Dec 1 2022

Quantum Computers and the Universe

Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.

Don Monroe

quantum computing visual representation, illustration

Opinion Dec 1 2022

The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.

Peter J. Denning and John Arquilla

various photos of the same building from different perspectives

Opinion Dec 1 2022

The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project

Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.

George Neville-Neil

one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Opinion Dec 1 2022

Can Universities Combat the ‘Wrong Kind of AI’?

Seeking an artificial intelligence reset.

Devdatt Dubhashi

instructor and two students in a university research laboratory

Opinion Dec 1 2022

Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3

How distributed technologies could return more control to users.

Alex Pentland

cube faces with styled images of a female and male

Practice Dec 1 2022

CSRB’s Opus One

Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.

Poul-Henning Kamp

XKCD illustration of a modern digital infrastructure

Practice Dec 1 2022

FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data

A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.

CACM Staff

ribbons with incorporated light beams, illustration

Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

Producing Competent HPC Graduates

Employers seek recruits who can apply the knowledge, skill, and culture they acquire in college to solve problems as soon as they enter the workforce.

Juan Chen, Sheikh Ghafoor, and John Impagliazzo

woman pointing to a computer display of a seated male

Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

The Evolution of Mathematical Software

Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.

Jack J. Dongarra

code and colored bars on a computer display

Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography

Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.

Ewa Nowara, Daniel McDuff, Ashutosh Sabharwal, and Ashok Veeraraghavan

Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?

A framework for aiding future Java mutation tool comparisons.

Research and Advances Dec 1 2022

DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale

This paper introduces DIAMetrics: a novel framework for end-to-end benchmarking and performance monitoring of query engines.

Opinion Dec 1 2022

Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI

Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.

Leah Hoffmann

dots in rainbow colors suggesting diversity

News Nov 29 2022

Cyberlaw: Where We Are and What’s On the Horizon

Legislating for cyberspace means establishing new legal frameworks and rethinking existing ones. The global picture is mixed.

Karen Emslie | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Talita Dias said viewing cyberspace as a new 'space' is misleading.

News Nov 22 2022

AI is Solving Classical Computing’s Quantum Problem

Quantum computers, once thought to be "superior" to classical computers, increasingly are being seen as yet another accelerator for specialized problems, according to IBM.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

The number of equations that need to be solved to fully describe the many-body problem of the quantum interactions among this many pixels is 100,000.

News Nov 17 2022

Technology Transforms Textiles

Robotic fabrics sense motion and movements, and adapt accordingly.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Nov 3 2022

Samsung Breach Slams Consumers

Including this writer.

David Geer | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Nov 1 2022

Small Sensors for Big Challenges

Shwetak Patel hopes to build something that could impact the lives of a billion people.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Nov 1 2022

The Impact of Virtual Meetings

Virtual meetings have mixed effects on employee productivity, creativity, and relationships.

Logan Kugler

eight faces in windows on a laptop display for an e-meeting

Opinion Nov 1 2022

An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices

Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.

Pamela Samuelson

open smartphone with internals visible, illustration

Opinion Nov 1 2022

Mobile-App Privacy Nutrition Labels Missing Key Ingredients for Success

Android and iOS privacy labels confuse developers and end users.

Lorrie Faith Cranor

hands holding a smartphone, security concept

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