April 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 4

Features

Opinion Apr 1 2014

A Front Row Seat to Communications’ Editorial Transformation

For the past five years, we have been co-chairs on Communications' editorial board for the Contributed Articles and Review Articles sections. The articles we receive are representative of the expansive reach of information technology.

Alfred Aho and Georg Gottlob

Computing Applications

Opinion From the President Apr 1 2014

The Internet Governance Ecosystem

Over the past decade, the Internet and its governance has become the topic of major discussion, debate, and controversy.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

Opinion Letters to the Editor Apr 1 2014

Code That Missed Mars

Gerard J. Holzmann's article "Mars Code" (Feb. 2014) demonstrated a nonblocking implementation of concurrent double-ended queues to not work through an application of Holzmann's own Spin model checker. However, the demonstration seemed too shallow.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2014

Eyes Forward

Mark Guzdial considers why computing education lags behind other sciences, while Daniel Reed weighs balancing immediate research needs against future uncertainty.

Mark Guzdial and Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

News Apr 1 2014

Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments

Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

model of gene regulation network in mammalian cells

News Apr 1 2014

Speech-to-Speech Translations Stutter, But Researchers See Mellifluous Future

The practical need for accurate instant or simultaneous machine translations continues to grow as applications multiply.

Paul Hyman

Architecture and Hardware

U.S. Marine, Thai native, and CMU professor Alexander Waibel

News Apr 1 2014

New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing

A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.

Gregory Mone

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Technology strategy and management Apr 1 2014

MOOCs Revisited, With Some Policy Suggestions

Assessing the rapidly evolving realm of massive open online courses.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

Opinion Global computing Apr 1 2014

Thinking Outside the Continent

Encouraging the opportunities for digital innovation and invention to flourish in a variety of social environments.

Michael L. Best

Computing Applications

Opinion Kode Vicious Apr 1 2014

This Is the Foo Field

The meaning of bits and avoiding upgrade bogdowns.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2014

Small Data, Where N = Me

Seeking personalized data-derived insights from analysis of our digital traces.

Deborah Estrin

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2014

Is Multicore Hardware For General-Purpose Parallel Processing Broken?

The current generation of general-purpose multicore hardware must be fixed to support more application domains and to allow cost-effective parallel programming.

Uzi Vishkin

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Is Multicore Hardware for General-Purpose Parallel Processing Broken?, illustration

Practice Apr 1 2014

Rate-Limiting State

The edge of the Internet is an unruly place.

Paul Vixie

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Apr 1 2014

Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?

Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.

Ivar Jacobson, Pan-Wei Ng, Ian Spence, and Paul E. McMahon

Computing Applications

Practice Apr 1 2014

Multipath TCP

Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.

Christoph Paasch and Olivier Bonaventure

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2014

Who Does What in a Massive Open Online Course?

Student-participation data from the inaugural MITx (now edX) course — 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics — unpacks MOOC student behavior.

Computing Applications

Who Does What in a Massive Open Online Course?, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2014

Formally Verified Mathematics

With the help of computational proof assistants, formal verification could become the new standard for rigor in mathematics.

Jeremy Avigad and John Harrison

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Formally Verified Mathematics, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2014

Unifying Functional and Object-Oriented Programming with Scala

Scala unifies traditionally disparate programming-language philosophies to develop new components and component systems.

Martin Odersky and Tiark Rompf

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Review articles Apr 1 2014

Security and Privacy For Augmented Reality Systems

AR systems pose potential security concerns that should be addressed before the systems become widespread.

Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Molnar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Systems, illustration

Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2014

Technical Perspective: A ‘Reasonable’ Solution to Deformation Methods

Jacobson et al. construct a deformation method that allows a wide range of handle types (points, line segments, open and closed polygons) and produces deformations that are biharmonic functions.

Joe Warren

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2014

Bounded Biharmonic Weights For Real-Time Deformation

Changing an object's shape is a basic operation in computer graphics. Our goal is to make the design and control of deformations simpler by allowing the user to work freely with the most convenient combination of handle types.

Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

bounded biharmonic weights, illustration

Opinion Last byte Apr 1 2014

Future Tense: Re: Search

For some, data collecting will always be more rewarding than data mining.

Ken MacLeod

Architecture and Hardware

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