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A platform for creating a crowdsourced picture of human opinions on how machines should handle moral dilemmas.
Technologies for manipulating our digital appearance alter the way the world sees us as well as the way we see ourselves.
Toward Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation
Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.
Technical Perspective: A Perspective on Pivot Tracing
Instead of handing trace records off to a collector for long-term storage and future processing, the system described in "Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems," by Jonathan Mace, et al., installs continuous queries, on demand, inside the distributed system itself.
Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
This paper presents Pivot Tracing, a monitoring framework for distributed systems, which addresses the limitations of today's monitoring and diagnosis tools by combining dynamic instrumentation with a novel relational operator: the happened-before join.
Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED
We introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in specialized waveforms.
Directions for Professional Social Matching Systems
Future PSM systems will require diversity-enhancing yet contextually sensitive designs.
Toward ML-Centric Cloud Platforms
Exploring the opportunities to use ML, the possible designs, and our experience with Microsoft Azure.
Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science
Reviewing software testing techniques for finding security vulnerabilities.
Technical Perspective: Lighting the Way to Visual Privacy
"Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED," presents a new technique to address the issue of cameras capturing proprietary or private information—it stops most digital cameras from recording a useful image while the scene remains visible to human eyes.
Dependability in Edge Computing
Edge computing holds great promise, and almost as many challenges in deployment.
Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning
Uncovering the mysterious ways machine learning models make decisions.
Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal
There is a common belief that grades in computer science courses are bimodal. We devised a psychology experiment to understand why CS educators hold this belief.
Technical Perspective: Is There a Geek Gene?
"Evidence that Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal" uses empirical methods to determine if belief in innate differences may explain why CS teachers see a bimodality in grades.
Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.
Rethinking Search Engines and Recommendation Systems: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Novel approaches draw on the strength of game theoretic mechanism design.
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.
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.
In a career launched by groundbreaking research, Garth Gibson continues to shepherd technological advances "from blackboard through standards and to commercial reality."
Welcome to the India Region Special Section
The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.
Turbocharging Database Query Processing and Testing
Query processing and optimization are implemented in all contemporary database systems. Indian universities have played a visible role in addressing important, unsolved issues.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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