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BLOG@CACM May 23 2017

Opening Ceremony Kicks Off ACM-ICPC as Competition Nears

Hundreds of people gathered in the theater at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, S.D., on Monday (May 22) as students, coaches, and community members attended the 2017 ACM-ICPC Opening Ceremony.

Kelsey Sinclair

BLOG@CACM May 22 2017

Gaming and Touring Prep Students For Programming Contest

Students and coaches are exploring local attractions, playing competitive games, and attending the Competitive Learning Symposium in advance of the 2017 ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.

Kelsey Sinclair

BLOG@CACM May 22 2017

ACM-ICPC Has Outgrown Its Humble Start

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition draws the best collegiate programmers from around the world, but it started as a humble statewide competition.

Kelsey Sinclair

BLOG@CACM May 22 2017

International Competitors Head to Rapid City For ACM-ICPC

Finalist teams from around the world descended on Rapid City, South Dakota this past weekend for the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Sightseeing and some cultural adjustments were in order.

Kelsey Sinclair

BLOG@CACM May 22 2017

The Mythical Brooks Law

Yes, you can make a project less late by adding manpower. If you are a good manager.

Bertrand Meyer

News May 18 2017

Solid-State Batteries to Support the Growth of Iot

Compared to lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries don't have the potential to burn or explode, and they can recharge via energy harvesting.

R. Colin Johnson

The flat components of a solid-state battery.

News May 16 2017

Going Retro With Rube

Old-time machine contest fosters STEM creativity.

Gregory Goth

Part of a 2016 winning entry from first-time participants from the Indian Woods Middle School Overland Park, KS.

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion

Programmers should not have to sacrifice code clarity or good software engineering practices to obtain performance. This work shows how to attain this goal for high-level Haskell in the domain of sequence-processing functions.

Geoffrey Mainland, Roman Leshchinskiy, and Simon Peyton Jones

Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion, illustration

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Functional Compilers

"Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion" points out that stream fusion by itself is not well suited for generating bulk instructions such as vector or SIMD instructions.

Guy Blelloch

Research and Advances May 1 2017

DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction

We describe DeepDive, a system that combines database and machine learning ideas to help to develop knowledge base construction systems.

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Building Knowledge Bases from Messy Data

"DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction" is a prime example of groundbreaking work in the area of Knowledge Base Construction.

Alon Halevy

Opinion May 1 2017

Toward a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Surmounting the Obstacles

A 10-point plan toward fashioning a proposal to ban some — if not all — lethal autonomous weapons.

Wendell Wallach

Practice May 1 2017

Making Money Using Math

Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.

Erik Meijer

Practice May 1 2017

MongoDB’s Javascript Fuzzer

The fuzzer is for those edge cases that your testing did not catch.

Robert Guo

BLOG@CACM May 1 2017

Ending Null Pointer Crashes

Void safety, says Bertrand Meyer, relies on type declarations and static analysis.

Bertrand Meyer

News May 1 2017

Combating Cancer With Data

Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.

Esther Shein

News May 1 2017

Bionics in Competition

Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.

Keith Kirkpatrick

News May 1 2017

Making Chips Smarter

Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.

Samuel Greengard

Opinion May 1 2017

The Anonymization Debate Should Be About Risk, Not Perfection

Focusing on the process of anonymity rather than pursuing the unattainable goal of guaranteed safety.

Woodrow Hartzog and Ira Rubinstein

The Anonymization Debate Should Be About Risk, Not Perfection, illustration

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Who Owns the Social Web?

User attitudes toward online intellectual property reveal how far social norms have strayed from legal notions of ownership.

Catherine C. Marshall and Frank M. Shipman

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Responsible Research and Innovation in the Digital Age

RRI requires doing the best science for the world, not only the best science in the world.

Research and Advances May 1 2017

Contest Theory

Exploring the basic game theory models of contests found in online services.

Milan Vojnović

Opinion May 1 2017

Beyond ‘Star Trek’

On a mission to boldly go where no man has gone before, the series and movies somehow missed some promising technologies . . .

David Allen Batchelor

Opinion May 1 2017

Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?

Online social media have provided a megaphone for voices that might not have been heard except in limited circles. The amplifying effect, however, gives visibility to deliberate (or ignorant) misinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence, and advocacy of terrorism.

Vinton G. Cerf

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