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Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone
We show a simple and accurate approach to measuring surface tension that's available to anyone with a smartphone.
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud
Multiparty Computation permits computation on encrypted values.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to make it rain in the desert, a first step toward controlling the weather.
How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds
The ability to discover and experience world building is a relatively unique privilege afforded to computer programmers.
Finding the Art in Systems Conversions, Naming
Doug Meil considers a third distinct type of development, while Mario Antoine Aoun ponders alternate names for ACM.
The architect of the Sagrada Familia appears to have done parametric modeling in his head; software is helping to complete the structure a century later.
Non-Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A new blockchain-based technology is changing how the art world works, and changing how we think about asset ownership in the process.
Protecting the Global Internet from Technology Cold Wars
Considering the perceived dangers of the global information flow.
Security Done Right Can Make Smart Cities Wise
Seeking security improvements for smart cities.
Exploring Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine' and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
Back-of-the-envelope calculations are a powerful professional practice.
Should two private companies have complete control over the world's cellphones?
Integrating ethics into artificial intelligence education and development.
Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
A discussion of concerns on quantum vulnerability for the automobile industry.
The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing Systems
Ensuring the success of big graph processing for the next decade and beyond.
Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE
"WINOGRANDE" explores new methods of dataset development and adversarial filtering, expressly designed to prevent AI systems from making claims of smashing through benchmarks without making real progress.
Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?
"PlanAlyzer," by Emma Tosch et al., details PlanAlyzer software, the first tool to statically check the validity of online experiments.
Formalizing and Guaranteeing Human-Robot Interaction
As robots begin to interact closely with humans, we need to build systems worthy of trust regarding the safety and quality of the interaction.
An Internet of Things Service Roadmap
A blueprint for leveraging the tremendous opportunities the IoT has to offer.
PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments
We present the first approach for checking the internal validity of online experiments statically, that is, from code alone.
WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale
We introduce WinoGrande, a large-scale dataset of 44k problems, inspired by the original Winograd Schema Challenge, but adjusted to improve both the scale and the hardness of the dataset.
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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