August 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 8

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Aug 1 2020

It is entirely feasible to imagine the Internet of Medical Things with a significant capacity for remote medical diagnosis and triage.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2020

How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated

John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.

John Arquilla and Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Aug 1 2020

Neuromorphic Chips Take Shape

Chips designed specifically to model the neurons and synapses in the human brain are poised to change computing in profound ways.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

News Aug 1 2020

Digital Humans on the Big Screen

Motion pictures are using new techniques in computer-generated imagery to create feature-length performances by convincingly "de-aged" actors.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

News Aug 1 2020

Are We Addicted to Technology?

Experts agree technology causes some negative behaviors, but they are divided on how bad the problem is.

Logan Kugler

Computing Profession

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Opinion Broadening participation Aug 1 2020

TECHNOLOchicas: A Critical Intersectional Approach Shaping the Color of Our Future

A unique partnership seeks to address the underrepresentation and unique barriers facing Latina women and girls of color in information technology.

Jannie Fernandez and JeffriAnne Wilder

Computing Profession

middle school girls in TECHNOLOchicas LiFT T-shirts

Opinion Kode vicious Aug 1 2020

Broken Hearts and Coffee Mugs

The ordeal of security reviews.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

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Opinion Education Aug 1 2020

Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education

Rethinking the content of introductory computing around a data-centric approach to better engage and support a diversity of students.

Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler

Computing Profession

Opinion Privacy and security Aug 1 2020

OMSCS: The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Lessons learned from the first five years of Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science program.

Zvi Galil

Computing Profession

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Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2020

Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science

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

Computing Applications

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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

Computing Applications

orange metal box labeled as 'software data recorder'

Practice Aug 1 2020

Power to the People

Reducing datacenter carbon footprints.

Jessie Frazelle

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2020

Digital Creativity Support for Original Journalism

A tool that helps journalists discover new story angles by offering insight not search results.

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles 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

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2020

Examining Undergraduate Computer Science Participation in North Carolina

Data on CS graduation rates among six academic institutions in NC traces the demographics of those participating (or not) in the discipline.

Fay Cobb Payton and Alexa Busch

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Review articles 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

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Entity Matching with Magellan

Magellan's key insight is that a successful entity matching system must offer a versatile system building paradigm for entity matching that can be easily adapted for different application needs.

Wang-Chiew Tan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2020

Magellan: Toward Building Ecosystems of Entity Matching Solutions

Entity matching can be viewed as a special class of data science problems and thus can benefit from system building ideas in data science.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Supporting Linear Algebra Operations in SQL

Do we need a completely new database system to support machine learning?

Yannis Papakonstantinou

Systems and Networking

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2020

Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System

We show that by making just a few changes to a parallel/distributed relational database system, such a system can become a competitive platform for scalable linear algebra.

Systems and Networking

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Opinion Last byte Aug 1 2020

Seeing Light at the End of the Cybersecurity Tunnel

After decades of cybersecurity research, Elisa Bertino remains optimistic.

Leah Hoffmann

Security and Privacy

Purdue University Professor Elisa Bertino

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