April 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 4

Features

Opinion Department: Editor's letter Apr 1 2018

Large-scale funding enables examination of larger questions that cross problem spaces, systems, abstractions, even fields. I believe the need for large investments has never been greater.

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Applications

Opinion Apr 1 2018

The Sound of Programming

Bootstrap World has developed online courses in programming, among other subjects, but what makes Bootstrap World so memorable for me is that the team has focused heavily on accessibility.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

Opinion Departments Apr 1 2018

Open Access and ACM

ACM is under significant pressure to move from a subscription-based to an open access publishing model. Such a transition is exceedingly challenging and would threaten ACM's financial viability, a risk that must be taken seriously.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Applications

Opinion Letters to the editor Apr 1 2018

Predicting Failure of the University

Henry C. Lucas, Jr.'s Viewpoint "Technology and the Failure of the University" (Jan. 2018) was a tour de force of unfounded assertions.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2018

Fostering Inclusion, Keeping the Net Neutral

ACM-W chair Jodi Tims offers ways everyone can promote inclusiveness, while Daniel A. Reed assesses the debate over Net neutrality.

Jodi Tims and Daniel A. Reed

Computing Profession

News Apr 1 2018

Always Out of Balance

Computational theorists prove there is no easy algorithm to find Nash equilibria, so game theory will have to look in new directions.

Neil Savage

Systems and Networking

Always Out of Balance, illustrative photo

News Apr 1 2018

Chips for Artificial Intelligence

Companies are racing to develop hardware that more directly empowers deep learning.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

Chips for Artificial Intelligence, illustration

News Apr 1 2018

Artificial (Emotional) Intelligence

Enabled by advances in computing power and neural networks, machines are getting better at recognizing and dealing with human emotions.

Marina Krakovsky

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial (Emotional) Intelligence, illustration

Opinion Technology strategy and management Apr 1 2018

Business Ecosystems: How Do They Matter for Innovation?

Considering the significant interrelationship of innovation, corporate strategy, and public policy for business ecosystems.

Mari Sako

Computing Profession

Opinion Kode vicious Apr 1 2018

Popping Kernels

Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2018

Push Versus Pull

Flipping the publishing business model.

Sheldon H. Jacobson

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2018

Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment

Exploring the connection qualities between smartphones and their users.

Stephen B. Wicker

Computing Profession

Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment, illustrative photo

Practice Apr 1 2018

DevOps Delivers

The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.

Nicole Forsgren

Computing Applications

Practice Apr 1 2018

Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?

It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.

Jez Humble

Computing Applications

Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here? illustration

Practice Apr 1 2018

Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)

Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.

Bridget Kromhout

Computing Applications

Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture, illustration

Practice Apr 1 2018

DevOps Metrics

Your biggest mistake might be collecting the wrong data.

Nicole Forsgren and Mik Kersten

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2018

Building a Smart City: Lessons from Barcelona

Smart Internet-based infrastructure is one thing but will be ignored without the public's continuing engagement.

Mila Gascó-Hernandez

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2018

Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google

For a static analysis project to succeed, developers must feel they benefit from and enjoy using it.

Architecture and Hardware

Lessons from Building Static Analysis Tools at Google, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2018

Realizing the Potential of Data Science

Data science promises new insights, helping transform information into knowledge that can drive science and industry.

Computing Applications

Realizing the Potential of Data Science, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Apr 1 2018

Bridgeware: The Air-Gap Malware

The challenge of combatting malware designed to breach air-gap isolation in order to leak data.

Mordechai Guri and Yuval Elovici

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Expressive Probabilistic Models and Scalable Method of Moments

The authors of "Learning Topic Models—Provably and Efficiently," developed a new method for fitting topic models and at large scale.

David M. Blei

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2018

Learning Topic Models – Provably and Efficiently

This article shows that some new theoretical algorithms that have provable guarantees can be adapted to yield highly practical tools for topic modeling.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Last byte Apr 1 2018

Finding October

Two teams, blue and red, play a game in which Red has a submarine we call October, as in Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October.

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

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