Answering Children’s Questions About Computers
Judy Robertson addresses the disconnect between what children are taught about computers and what they actually wish to know.
Computing Profession
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Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
UCF’s 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision
A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.
SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation
"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account when choosing cryptographic parameters.
Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.
Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel
Save time by sharing and reusing build and test output.
Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.
Autonomous Tools and Design: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning
In addition to having a detailed understanding of the artifacts they intend to create, designers need to guide the software tools they use.
Deception, Identity, and Security: The Game Theory of Sybil Attacks
Classical mathematical game theory helps to evolve the emerging logic of identity in the cyber world.
As Air Taxis Arrive, Software Issues Arise
Urban 'flying car' technology is almost here, but with proponents haunted by a 1977 helicopter crash, getting safety right is the top priority.
Computer Science Relies on the Opposite of Godel’s Results
The first-order theories of Gödel's results necessarily leave mathematical objects ill-defined.
Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments
Businesses, universities, and governments increasingly are turning to algorithms to make crucial decisions about how to treat customers and citizens.
A new report calls for the U.S. government to watch, encourage, and regulate (where necessary) artificial intelligence.
Seeking Equilibria in Economics, Computer Science
Daskalakis' work brings deep theoretical analysis to bear on high-impact problems with direct effects on real-world applications.
The Model Maker of Leonardo da Vinci, Blaise Pascal, and Charles Babbage
Discovery of a previously unknown replica of the legendary Swiss Millionaire calculating machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Broadening Participation in Computing Is Easier Than You Think
Some small steps that can make a big difference.
Smarter Voice Assistants Recognize Your Favorite Brands—and Health
People often surrender their data privacy to their continuously listening voice assistants without understanding the implications.
Short Take: Big Data and IoT in Practice
Looking at some use cases for the adoption of big data in industries that deal with physical things, and drawing some inferences.
Overcoming AI Bias with AI Fairness
New tools aim to remove unconscious and other types of bias from algorithms.
The Drive Toward Self-Driving Food Delivery Vehicles
Are pizza delivery guys destined to be so 20th century?
Uncertainty in Current and Future Health Wearables
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Search-based Program Synthesis
A promising, useful tool for future programming development environments.
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