February 2024 - Vol. 67 No. 2

Features

Opinion Cerf's Up Feb 12 2024

What properties would be useful to realize in a system intended to keep personal information, where it is needed, up to date?

Vinton G. Cerf

Security and Privacy

Jan 23 2024

Why Bother Localizing Information Technology Products?

Alex Tray offers advice and insight into how and why to localize information technology products.

Alex Tray

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

News Jan 23 2024

Algorithmic Advance: the Group Isomorphism Problem

Exploring a potential way to immensely speed up algorithms for the group isomorphism problem.

Erica Klarreich

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jan 25 2024

Teaching Transformed

The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has simultaneously caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation among teachers.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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News Jan 23 2024

Virtual Reality as Therapy

Leveraging precisely designed alternate realities as therapeutic tools.

Gregory Mone

Architecture and Hardware

seated person wearing a VR headset gestures in front of a seated man taking notes

Opinion Jan 24 2024

Autocorrect Is Not: People Are Multilingual and Computer Science Should Be Too

Considering the interconnection of computing and human languages.

Christopher Hoadley and Sara Vogel

Computing Applications

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Opinion Feb 13 2024

Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI

Applying AI techniques to journalism.

Computing Profession

humanoid robot holding a pen and tablet, illustration

Opinion Jan 26 2024

How the AI Boom Went Bust

Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.

Thomas Haigh

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Jan 19 2024

Dear Diary

On keeping a laboratory notebook.

George Neville-Neil

Computing Profession

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Opinion Feb 13 2024

Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula

First-job readiness versus long-term career preparation.

Rahul Simha, Amruth N Kumar, and Rajendra K Raj

Computing Profession

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Opinion Jan 19 2024

Virtual and the Future of Conferences

Making conferences more accessible.

Steven Fraser and Dennis Mancl

Computing Profession

Opinion Feb 13 2024

Gaining Benefit from Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Why ethics is not enough.

Alfred Z. Spector

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Careers Jan 24 2024

Security Mismatch

In software companies a natural conflict exists between security teams and product delivery teams—one's nature is to slow down progress, the other wants to speed it up. The secret is to view security as an enabler, not a hindrance.

Phil Vachon

Security and Privacy

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Careers Jan 24 2024

Knowing What You Need to Know

In the post-pandemic world, businesses are often handling a combination of on-site and remote workers. To be successful, this requires a new set of management tools.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Computing Profession

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Research and Advances Jan 18 2024

Inherent Limitations of AI Fairness

AI fairness should not be considered a panacea: It may have the potential to make society more fair than ever, but it needs critical thought and outside help to make it happen.

Maarten Buyl and Tijl De Bie

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Jan 18 2024

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI

Computing educators and students face challenges and opportunities in adapting to LLMs capable of generating accurate source code from natural-language problem descriptions.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Feb 12 2024

Talking about Large Language Models

It is a serious mistake to apply to AI systems the same intuitions that we deploy in our dealings with each other.

Murray Shanahan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Feb 12 2024

Anthropomorphism and Human-Robot Interaction

Humans are more likely to interact with robots if the robots look human.

Rae Yule Kim

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Jan 26 2024

Energy and Emissions of Machine Learning on Smartphones vs. the Cloud

An extensive study from Google finds machine-learning training in the cloud can significantly reduce carbon footprints.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Feb 13 2024

Technical Perspective: How Easy Is It to Describe Hard Polynomials?

"Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits," by Nutan Limaye et al., achieves a landmark in the larger quest of understanding hardness, dentity testing, and reconstruction.

Prof.Dr. Nitin Saxena

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Feb 13 2024

Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits

In this paper, we prove the first superpolynomial lower bounds against algebraic circuits of all constant depths over all fields of characteristic 0.

Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan, and Sébastien Tavenas

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Feb 14 2024

Technical Perspective: Bridging AI with Real-Time Systems

"Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines," by Shengzhong Liu et al., proposes a new methodology for overcoming the limitations of current AI frameworks to enable the use of deep neural networks in mission-critical systems.

Giorgio Buttazzo

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Feb 14 2024

Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines

This paper discusses algorithmic priority inversion in mission-critical machine inference pipelines used in modern neural-network-based perception subsystems and describes a solution to mitigate its effect.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Jan 23 2024

The Human Touch

In this short sci-fi story from Brian Clegg, a race of AI beings from another world force a human to grapple with the age-old trolley problem...for keeps.

Brian Clegg

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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