September 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 9

Features

Opinion Departments Sep 1 2022

Computing has become highly important in everyday life during the past 75 years. In addition to its many benefits, however, it has also played a major role in driving societal polarization.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

Careers Career paths in computing Sep 1 2022

The Making of an IT Strategy Consultant

Years ago, my mentor asked me how I envisioned my career. I replied, "It's important that my work is fun." She replied rather dryly, "You can't live off fun, Kristian."

Kristian Sørensen

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2022

Changing the Nature of AI Research

Subbarao Kambhampati considers how artificial intelligence may be straying from its roots.

Subbarao Kambhampati

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Sep 1 2022

Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners

Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.

Chris Edwards

Computing Applications

graph lines in big data concept, illustration

News Sep 1 2022

The Road to 6G

Looking past 5G to sixth-generation wireless technology.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Applications

News Sep 1 2022

How AI Is Driving the Esports Boom

Artificial intelligence is helping the esports industry take the world by storm.

Logan Kugler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Esports Gaming Lab at St. Louis University

Opinion Law and technology Sep 1 2022

These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For

Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.

Andres Guadamuz

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Security Sep 1 2022

Security by Labeling

Protecting and empowering the digital consumer.

Andreas Kuehn

Computing Applications

refrigerator-freezer in a home appliance store

Opinion The profession of IT Sep 1 2022

The Atlas Milestone

Celebrating virtual memory, which has made such a difference in how we approach programming, memory management, and secure computing.

Peter Denning and Roland Ibbett

Computing Profession

Tom Kilburn at the Manchester Atlas computer console

Opinion Point/counterpoint Sep 1 2022

On the Model of Computation: Point: We Must Extend Our Model of Computation to Account for Cost and Location

We must extend our model of computation to account for cost and location.

William Dally

Computing Applications

Opinion Point/counterpoint Sep 1 2022

On the Model of Computation: Counterpoint: Parallel Programming Wall and Multicore Software Spiral: Denial Hence Crisis

Parallel programming wall and multicore software spiral: Denial hence crisis.

Uzi Vishkin

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Sep 1 2022

Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket

Toward new research directions in computer science.

Florence Maraninchi

Computing Profession

hand putting an egg into one of four baskets, illustration

Practice Sep 1 2022

Middleware 101

What to know now and for the future.

Alexandros Gazis and Eleftheria Katsiri

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

smoke coming from the top of a computer, illustration

Practice Sep 1 2022

Persistence Programming

Are we doing this right?

Archie L. Cobbs

Computing Applications

Sisyphus pushing a boulder of binary digits up a hill, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles Sep 1 2022

Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

Lessons from a pandemic.

Computing Applications

passengers in airport terminal separated by seats marked 'x'

Research and Advances Contributed articles Sep 1 2022

Deconstructing the Bakery to Build a Distributed State Machine

A rigorous journey from the bakery algorithm to a distributed state machine.

Leslie Lamport

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

ticket dispenser in front of an alphanumeric display screen, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Sep 1 2022

When SDN and Blockchain Shake Hands

A survey of recent efforts to combine SDN and BC shows promising results and points to directions for future research.

Majd Latah and Kubra Kalkan

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios

"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely new perspective.

Falko Dressler

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2022

Polymorphic Wireless Receivers

We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.

Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2022

Technical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security Measures

"Measuring Security Practices," by Louis F. DeKoven et al., provide a unique perspective into how users choose to implement common security advice in practice.

Nicolas Christin

Security and Privacy

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2022

Measuring Security Practices

This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement of a large population of computer devices.

Security and Privacy

security operator monitoring multiple screens

Opinion Last byte Sep 1 2022

Advancing the Ability of Robots to Help

ACM Athena Lecturer Ayanna Howard considers the benefits of robotics and the potential drawbacks of overtrust.

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

Dean Ayanna Howard of the Ohio State University College of Engineering

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