The Growth and Evolution of India’s Software Industry
The Indian software industry has matured from providing cost-effective back office support to driving the digital transformation of global companies.
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Researchers and practitioners have used interactive voice response technology to create voice-based services that have found application in India's marginalized communities.
Highlights of Software R&D in India
India's achievement as a software superpower rests on decades of work spanning software processes, rigorous engineering, value-adding technologies, and other factors.
The debate engendered by the Aadhaar project has propelled India from being a predominantly pre-privacy society to one in which privacy protection in digital databases has emerged as a major national concern.
Technical Perspective: A Whitebox Solution for Blackbox-Like Behaviors
DeepXplore brings a software testing perspective to deep neural networks and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for enormous amounts of follow-on work in several ways.
DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems
We design, implement, and evaluate DeepXplore, the first white-box framework for systematically testing real-world deep learning systems.
Bias, Harassment Drive Women from STEM Jobs: Survey
Nearly half of female professionals in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics jobs surveyed said they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Quantum Photonics Spawns Optical Age
Initial applications could include optical quantum sensors, optical quantum transistors, and optically uncrackable quantum encryption.
Driving Hate from The Internet: Noble or Futile?
Cracking down on those who post violent manifestos and other hateful content.
Machine language translation is advancing rapidly, but can it reach the level of human understanding?
Biggest Brands Embrace an Obscure Online Subculture
For years, the "Extremely Online" have shared the latest Internet memes and inside jokes. Now companies are doing the same.
Underwater drones offer scientists a glimpse into the world's least-known frontier.
If We Want Women to Persist in Computing, Teach Them Programming – At Any Age
Two recent reports point to the important of teaching female students to program and that it's never "too late."
Women in STEM: No Simple Answers
National averages of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions vary greatly, for many reasons.
How ACM Evolves in Response to Community Needs
One question people ask me as President is how ACM — as a global, volunteer-based organization — can evolve over time. Does it evolve to keep up with changes going on in our profession?
I keep hearing excuses for not working on difficult problems: "Eventually AI will solve this so there's no point working on it now." Sorry, wrong answer.
Technical Perspective: The Scalability of CertiKOS
The authors of "Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels" illustrate that formal verification can scale up to a moderate-size program (6,500 lines of C) that has substantial shared-memory concurrency.
Pinning Down Variables, and Taking an Agile Approach
Robin K. Hill tries to better define variables, while Edwin Torres acknowledges he is his own greatest obstacle.
How can we fill more computer science classrooms when there just aren't enough teachers to go around?
Unlocking Data to Improve Public Policy
When properly secured, anonymized, and optimized for research, administrative data can be put to work to help government programs better serve those in need.
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