December 2019 - Vol. 62 No. 12

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Dec 1 2019

Engaging Future Generations of ACM Leaders

As a volunteer-driven organization, ACM's future health depends not only on appealing to a diverse membership, but also on creating a pipeline of future leaders.

Cherri M. Pancake

Computing Profession

Opinion Cerf's up Dec 1 2019

A Hands-Free Ride

I recently had the opportunity to take a ride in a Waymo self-driving car in Chandler, AZ.

Vinton G. Cerf

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Letters to the editor Dec 1 2019

Online Voting Still Security Pipedream

The Viewpoint in the September 2019 issue "Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)," while interesting, was flawed and failed to justify the claims made.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2019

Getting High School, College Students Interested in CS

Mark Guzdial considers how few U.S. high school students take computer science, while Robin K. Hill shares what she's learned in teaching first-year college computing students.

Mark Guzdial and Robin K. Hill

Computing Applications

News Dec 1 2019

Malevolent Machine Learning

AI attacks throw light on the nature of deep learning.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Dec 1 2019

Robots Aim to Boost Astronaut Efficiency

A multitude of robotic assistants for astronauts and rovers are in development to make space exploration more resource-efficient.

Paul Marks

Architecture and Hardware

News Dec 1 2019

Regulating Information Technology

Why isn't IT regulated, when it can have such substantial impacts on people's lives?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Profession

Opinion Computing ethics Dec 1 2019

Should Researchers Use Data from Security Breaches?

Evaluating the arguments for and against using digital data derived from security breaches.

David M. Douglas

Computing Profession

scale weighing sack of breached data, illustration

Opinion Kode vicious Dec 1 2019

Koding Academies

A low-risk path to becoming a front-end plumber.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion The profession of IT Dec 1 2019

Uncertainty

Considering how to best navigate stability and randomness.

Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis

Computing Applications

Lucy wearing chef's cap and working with chocolate

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2019

Public Entrepreneurship and Policy Engineering

Training the next generation of leader and problem solver.

Beth Simone Noveck

Computing Applications

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Practice Dec 1 2019

Hack for Hire

Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.

Ariana Mirian

Architecture and Hardware

hackers and many screens in dark room, illustrative photo

Practice Dec 1 2019

API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2019

The Rise of Serverless Computing

The server is dead, long live the server.

Paul Castro, Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy, and Aleksander Slominski

Architecture and Hardware

writing in clouds: The server is dead, long live the server

Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2019

Automated Program Repair

Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.

Claire Le Goues, Michael Pradel, and Abhik Roychoudhury

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2019

Rethinking Search Engines and Recommendation Systems: A Game Theoretic Perspective

Novel approaches draw on the strength of game theoretic mechanism design.

Moshe Tennenholtz and Oren Kurland

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2019

Technical Perspective: Bootstrapping a Future of Open Source, Specialized Hardware

OpenPiton research is one of the watershed moments in the fundamental shift toward the construction of an open source ecosystem for implementing prototype chips.

Michael B. Taylor

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2019

OpenPiton: An Open Source Hardware Platform For Your Research

We present OpenPiton, an open source framework for building scalable architecture research prototypes from one core to 500 million cores.

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Last byte Dec 1 2019

RISCy Beginnings

In a career launched by groundbreaking research, Garth Gibson continues to shepherd technological advances "from blackboard through standards and to commercial reality."

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

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