Exit From the Covid-19 Lockdown: There’s an App for That
The Dutch government wants every citizen to download an app for tracking and tracing potential Covid-19 infections, but the app does not yet exist.
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Safety Proposal Points in Same Direction
In her February 2020 column ("Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?"), Nancy Leveson says the solution to software safety is not "building a software architecture and generating the requirements later." We are surprised that anyone would propose such an approach.
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional imagery to computer graphics.
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work.
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology
It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.
Contextual Word Representations: Putting Words into Computers
Advances in how programs treat natural language words have a big impact in AI.
We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.
Technical Perspective: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem
"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input "looks like."
Looking to Big Data, AI for COVID-19 Shutdown Exit Strategies
Crowdsourced data, artificial intelligence, and cryptography are emerging as vital tools for controlling transmission of COVID-19 as countries look for exit strategies.
Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy
Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on design in terms of functions, behaviors, and structures.
Teaching CS Humbly, and Watching the AI Revolution
Mark Guzdial on a book that changed his thinking about teaching computer science, and Jiajie Zhang on the AI Revolution.
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Deceiving the Masses on Social Media
The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.
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