The U.S. Goes All-In on Tech Inclusion
A wave of U.S. federal funding aims to make the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields more inclusive.
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Technology For the Most Effective Use of Mankind
In a keynote address (see https://goo.gl/RwkwK1) at the 2016 meeting of the Computing Research Association, Kentaro Toyama argued that persistent societal challenges, such as socio-economic inequality, do not have technology-centric solutions.
Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central It Departments
Central IT needs to guide functional areas and departments toward effective operational and procurement practices.
Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis
We present Eulerian Video Magnification, a computational technique for visualizing subtle color and motion variations in ordinary videos by making the variations larger.
Technical Perspective: Mapping the Universe
"HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures" describes the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) framework, which uses a novel algorithmic structure to map code onto multiple supercomputer platforms, whether heterogeneous CPU/GPU or multi/many-core systems.
Technical Perspective: Magnifying Motions the Right Way
"Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis" demonstrates that phase differences at a given frequency band, due to subtle motions in a video, can be independently amplified and added back into the original signal.
HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures
In this Research Highlight, we demonstrate the success of HACC on two very different machines, the CPU/GPU system Titan and the BG/Q systems Sequoia and Mira, attaining very high levels of scalable performance.
As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.
Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
Artificial Intelligence: Think Again
Social and cultural conventions are an often-neglected aspect of intelligent-machine development.
How We Teach CS2All, and What to Do About Database Decay
Valerie Barr considers how to make computer science education meaningful and relevant to all, while a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory offers strategies to counter database decay.
Cell-Graphs: Image-Driven Modeling of Structure-Function Relationship
Cell-graph construction methods are best served when physics-driven and data-driven paradigms are joined.
Settling p via Closed Loop Digital Wallets
Starbucks and others are providing app-based alternatives to Apple Pay, Android Pay.
Swearing Dolls, Other Iot Intrusions Threaten Children’s Well-Being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
Void safety is a guarantee that no code will ever catch a reference with its pants down.
In Memoriam: Andrew Birrell 1951-2016
He specialized in "in the general area of operating systems and distributed systems, with occasional excursions into security."
Macarthur Fellow Gene Luen Yang's graphic novels introduce kids to computer programming.
Creating Connection with Autonomous Facial Animation
Biologically based computational modeling promises virtual characters capable of face-to-face human interaction.
Interactive Visualization of 3D Scanned Mummies at Public Venues
A full-body virtual autopsy of an ancient Egyptian mummy showed visitors he was likely murdered.
Technical Perspective: 3D Image Editing Made Easy
The authors of "Extracting 3D Objects from Photographs Using 3-Sweep" present an important step toward achieving 3D editing.
In this paper, we present a new hardware-software system, called Software Defined Battery, which allows system designers to integrate batteries of different chemistries.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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