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Research and Advances Oct 1 2020

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.

Benjamin Livshits

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2020

Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively

Orit Hazzan on the challenges of taking a CS soft skills class online after teaching it in a classroom for a decade.

Orit Hazzan

Professor Orit Hazzan of Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology

News Sep 1 2020

Virtual Collaboration in the Age of the Coronavirus

Videoconferencing apps took off during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but more efficient ways to collaborate virtually are waiting in the wings.

Paul Marks

Suitable Technologies' telepresence robot

Opinion Sep 1 2020

Avalanches Make Us All Innovators

Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.

Peter J. Denning

'Avalanche Danger' sign on snowy mountaintop

Opinion Sep 1 2020

Integrating Management Science Into the HPC Research Ecosystem

How management science benefits from High Performance Computing.

Guido Schryen

buildings on a circuit board, illustration

Practice Sep 1 2020

Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

Arvind Narayanan, Arunesh Mathur, Marshini Chetty, and Mihir Kshirsagar

user's hands at mouse and keyboard

Practice Sep 1 2020

Is Persistent Memory Persistent?

A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.

Terence Kelly

USB memory drive

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Becoming an ‘Adaptive’ Expert

Investigating student knowledge transfer and metacognitive activities at college CS departments and at coding bootcamps.

Quinn Burke and Cinamon Sunrise Bailey

two darts in dartboard bullseye

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy

In distributed systems theory, CALM presents a result that delineates the frontier of the possible.

Joseph M. Hellerstein and Peter Alvaro

island beach

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information

We investigate the intrinsic value of location data in the context of strong privacy, where location information is only available from end users via purchase.

Heba Aly, John Krumm, Gireeja Ranade, and Eric Horvitz

map location indicator with dollar sign, illustration

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Progress in Spatial Computing for Flood Prediction

There are few algorithms for multi-flow graphs beyond flow accumulation. The authors of "Flood-Risk Analysis on Terrains" take a big step to fill this knowledge gap.

Shashi Shekhar

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Flood-Risk Analysis on Terrains

In this paper, we study a number of flood-risk related problems, give an overview of efficient algorithms for them, as well as explore the efficacy and efficiency of these algorithms on real terrains.

Aaron Lowe, Pankaj K. Agarwal, and Mathias Rav

forest stream

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Computing the Value of Location Data

"Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information," by Heba Aly et al., describes a technique for computing the monetary value of a person's location data for a potential geo-marketplace.

Cyrus Shahabi

Opinion Sep 1 2020

Little Green Message

A different kind of first-contact scenario.

Brian Clegg

wavy green lines

News Aug 27 2020

Why Did We Go Digital?

Princeton University's Ken Steiglitz feels an attachment to the analog.

Allyn Jackson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Princeton University professor emeritus Ken Steiglitz.

News Aug 12 2020

Finding Common Ground

Self-driving vehicles start to understand pedestrians, cyclists.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Controls of a self-driving car.

News Aug 4 2020

Instant Videos: Just Add Text

Artificial intelligence software can create a video montage from a few typed words.

Joe Dysart

The system responds to input text with video clips that could used to illustrate that text.

Opinion Aug 1 2020

Broken Hearts and Coffee Mugs

The ordeal of security reviews.

George V. Neville-Neil

broken heart latte pattern in coffee cup

Opinion Aug 1 2020

Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science

Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.

scissors on binary code background, illustration

Practice Aug 1 2020

To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging

A discussion with Robert O'Callahan, Kyle Huey, Devon O'Dell, and Terry Coatta.

CACM Staff

orange metal box labeled as 'software data recorder'

Research and Advances Aug 1 2020

Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences

Fully appreciating the overarching scope of CS requires weaving more than ethics into the reigning curricula.

Randy Connolly

umbrella surrounded by labels for academic disciplines, illustration

Research and Advances Aug 1 2020

Threats of a Replication Crisis in Empirical Computer Science

Research replication only works if there is confidence built into the results.

Andy Cockburn, Pierre Dragicevic, Lonni Besançon, and Carl Gutwin

BLOG@CACM Jul 31 2020

The Software that Led to the Lockdown

One of the key drivers for the decision to lockdown the U.K. in late March 2020 was a computational epidemiological model developed at Imperial College, London.

Michael Wooldridge

News Jul 24 2020

What’s That Smell?

A new system can mimic the brain's olfactory senses.

Joe Dysart | Commissioned by CACM Staff

A special chip can mimic the brain’s olfactory senses.

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