Examining the conflicting claims involving the use of automated tools in copyright-related notice-and-takedown procedures.
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Experiments as Research Validation: Have We Gone Too Far?
Reconsidering conference paper reviewers' requirements for experimental evidence.
Theory Without Experiments: Have We Gone Too Far?
Seeking a better understanding of computing through a mixture of theory and appropriate experimental evidence.
Debugging High-Performance Computing Applications at Massive Scales
Dynamic analysis techniques help programmers find the root cause of bugs in large-scale parallel applications.
Trustworthy Hardware from Untrusted Components
This defense-in-depth approach uses static analysis and runtime mechanisms to detect and silence hardware backdoors.
On the Categorization of Scientific Citation Profiles in Computer Science
A new dynamic growth model reveals how citation networks evolve over time, pointing the way toward reformulated scientometrics.
Technical Perspective: A Woodworker’s Easy Fix
The authors of "Guided Exploration of Physically Valid Shapes for Furniture Design" have found a way to provide the user with instant feedback on how to fix unstable or toppling wooden panel constructions.
Automated Education and the Professional
Technology boffins argue the new technologies of intelligent personal learning environments will put universities out of business. Will the purported successor, an automated global virtual university, be up to the task of professional education?
Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI
Old questions being answered with both AI and HCI.
A Lovelace, Babbage, and Analytical Engine Lego Set?
On LEGO's ideas site, a new set has been proposed that would let children build the Analytical Engine, and learn about the roles Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage played in computing history.
Five are honored for exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Google Takes On Mobile Payments
Android Pay follows hard on the heels of Apple Pay in the 'tap and pay' sector.
Why Doesn’t ACM Have a SIG For Theoretical Computer Science?
In 1992, Yuri Gurevich wrote, "It is amazing, however, how different computer science is, especially theoretical computer science, in Europe and the U.S." How did such a sharp division arise between TCS in North America and Europe?
Feeling the way across new frontiers at the interface of people and machines.
Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
Seeking a better approach to pharmaceutical research and development.
You are given two bags, each containing some number NumPerBag of flares. You know there are NumBad flares in one of the bags but not which bag. The other bag has all good flares. Each time you test a flare, you use it up.
Meg Leta Jones's "Forgetting Made (Too) Easy" (June 2015) raised an important concern about the Court of Justice of the European Union's Google Spain judgment. Google "is without any guidance as to which interests should trump others, when, and why," she wrote. This is not quite true.
Security For Mobile and Cloud Frontiers in Healthcare
Designers and developers of healthcare information technologies must address preexisting security vulnerabilities and undiagnosed future threats.
Understanding the U.S. Domestic Computer Science Ph.D. Pipeline
Two studies provide insights into how to increase the number of domestic doctoral students in U.S. computer science programs.
Technical Perspective: Corralling Crowd Power
"Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside," introduces an exciting vision of using crowd workers to power an interactive system — here, a word processor — in accomplishing complex cognitive tasks.
Challenges Deploying Complex Technologies in a Traditional Organization
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan had to partner with experienced cloud providers to deliver television-quality exhibits.
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