Quantum Communication at 7,600km and Beyond
There are two major challenges to achieving secure quantum cryptography over long distances.
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Consumers, Corporations, and Government: Computing in China
Unique historical, socioeconomic, and political conditions have created a distinctive path for China's rapid integration of computing and technology into its economy and society.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in China
In addition to government-supported academic research, China's technical giants, such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei, are actively investing in AI research and related development.
Cloud Bursting for the World’s Largest Consumer Market
The development and popularization of cloud computing, especially in emerging domains, brings great convenience and also poses new challenges.
Is Last-Mile Delivery a ‘Killer App’ for Self-Driving Vehicles?
There are two dimensions of challenge to an efficient autonomous delivery vehicle solution.
Fintech: AI Powers Financial Services to Improve People's Lives
Financial technology, or fintech, is a fast-evolving field that has reshaped the financial industry.
Video Consumption, Social Networking, and Influence
China's online video industry has as many similarities as differences with the U.S.
Simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability set Lua apart from other scripting languages.
Modern Debugging: The Art of Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Systematic use of proven debugging approaches and tools lets programmers address even apparently intractable bugs.
Skill Discovery in Virtual Assistants
Skill recommendations must be provided when users need them most, without being obtrusive or distracting.
Will Supercomputers Be Super-Data and Super-AI Machines?
New challenges in architecture, system software, and application technologies must be addressed to help develop next-generation exascale supercomputing systems.
People Logistics in Smart Cities
Governments have been searching for new technologies to make cities in China more efficient, and smart mobility has been the top priority in all solutions.
Software Challenges for the Changing Storage Landscape
Conventional storage software stacks are unable to meet the needs of high-performance Storage-Class Memory technology. It is time to rethink 50-year-old architectures.
Technical Perspective: Making Sleep Tracking More User Friendly
"LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study" provides a nice balance in terms of minimizing the burden on users and the granularity at which we can automatically track various measures of sleep.
LIBS: A Bioelectrical Sensing System from Human Ears for Staging Whole-Night Sleep Study
We explore a new form of wearable systems, called LIBS, that can continuously record biosignals such as brain wave, eye movements, and facial muscle contractions, with high sensitivity and reliability.
Technical Perspective: Backdoor Engineering
"Where Did I Leave My Keys?" by Checkoway et al. reports on the amazing independent reconstruction of a backdoor, discovered in the firmware of a VPN router commonly used to secure access to corporate intranets.
Where Did I Leave My Keys?: Lessons from the Juniper Dual EC Incident
In this paper, we describe the results of a full independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness and VPN key establishment protocol subsystems, which we carried out in response to the Juniper Dual Elliptic Curve incident.
The Productivity Paradox in Health Information Technology
New York State healthcare providers increased their use of the technology but delivered only mixed results for their patients.
Formally Verified Software in the Real World
Verified software secures the Unmanned Little Bird autonomous helicopter against mid-flight cyber attacks.
Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?
What just happened in artificial intelligence and how it is being misunderstood.
The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.
Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided
In this work, we design and develop bufferless protocols that demonstrate how to implement the MPI-3 RMA interface and support scaling to millions of cores.
Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI
"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized.
Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones
We conceive a notion of reactive control that allows drones to execute the low-level control logic only upon recognizing the need to, based on the influence of the environment onto the drone operation.
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