First European Quantum Computing Facility Goes Online
Quantum Inspire is smaller than IBM's Quantum Experience, but offers the first online quantum processor that uses electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.
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Virtual Reality Meets the Office
"Virtual meeting spaces greatly expand the possibilities for online communication—and, at their best, create an environment that parallels or exceeds real world interaction."
Why I Don’t Recommend CSRankings.org: Know the Values You are Ranking On
Just because a ranking is computable doesn't mean that it's right.
Measuring Up: How to Properly Measure Your Programmers
To measure or to not measure, that is the question. Ask programmers and many will tell you that measurement is a fool’s folly. Measurement undermines the team spirit, or it reduces dynamic solutions into simplified numbers that can never reflect the true complexity of the project. On the other hand, without measurement, project managers will struggle to stay on top of a project.
AI Shakes Up the Seismology World
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of earthquakes and other seismological events
Agile Management of the Corona Crisis in the Start-Up Nation
Is there an efficient management solution for this crisis?
Switzerland's EFPL has developed inexpensive prototype bots that can be used to form, and act as, swarms.
Prepare Your Meal Together with a Robot
Julie Shah and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology build robots that can learn from demonstration, understand humans, and truly collaborate.
It is apparent that the world needs thoughtful and technically credible debate on alternatives for containing the problem of harmful behavior on the Internet.
Protecting Computers and People From Viruses
Robin K. Hill considers why the comparison of organic viruses and computer viruses is so compelling.
Who Has Access to Your Smartphone Data?
ISPs, app developers, and even the government may know more about you than you think.
Frances E. Allen was the first woman recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award.
A Holistic View of Future Risks
Almost everything is somehow interrelated with everything else—and that should not surprise us.
Using Computer Programs and Search Problems for Teaching Theory of Computation
Recognizing the significance of a cornerstone of computer science.
We Need to Automate the Declaration of Conflicts of Interest
Leveraging existing data sources to improve the declaration and management of authorship conflicts of interest.
Debugging Incidents in Google’s Distributed Systems
How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps?
The value of learning skillsets within a trio of disciplines and the role each plays in DevOps.
MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
We identify gas-focused vulnerabilities and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique that automatically detects gas-focused vulnerabilities with very high confidence.
Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection approach based on a static analysis.
Durable, Dense, and Efficient: The Promise of DNA Data Storage
Is DNA the future of data storage?
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