Technical Perspective: Solving Imperfect Information Games
"Heads-Up Limit Hold'em Poker Is Solved," by Michael Bowling, et al., takes the counterfactual regret minimization method for approximating a Nash equilibrium to the next level.
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Technical Perspective: Shedding New Light on an Old Language Debate
"A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub," by Baishakhi Ray, et al., studies whether programming language choice and code quality are related.
Technical Perspective: Broadening and Deepening Query Optimization Yet Still Making Progress
"Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization," by Immanuel Trummer and Christoph Koch is a remarkable tour de force exploration of the combination of both parametric and multi-objective query optimization.
Developers know refactoring improves their software, but many find themselves unable to do so when they want to.
Millennials’ Attitudes Toward It Consumerization in the Workplace
Millennials entering the workforce ignore the risks of using privately owned devices on the job.
Internet Advertising: Technology, Ethics, and a Serious Difference of Opinion
Exploring the technical and ethical issues surrounding Internet advertising and ad blocking.
Multi-Objective Parametric Query Optimization
We propose a generalization of the classical database query optimization problem: multi-objective parametric query (MPQ) optimization.
A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github
What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub in an attempt to shed some empirical light on this question.
Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time
We discuss how our Scribe system combines human labor and machine intelligence in real time to reliably convert speech to text with less than 4s latency.
Security in High-Performance Computing Environments
Exploring the many distinctive elements that make securing HPC systems much different than securing traditional systems.
Alexei Efros, recipient of the 2016 ACM prize in computing, works to harness the power of visual complexity.
Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge
Answering questions correctly from standardized eighth-grade science tests is itself a test of machine intelligence.
Trust and Distrust in Online Fact-Checking Services
Even when checked by fact checkers, facts are often still open to preexisting bias and doubt.
Technical Perspective: A Gloomy Look at the Integrity of Hardware
"Exploiting the Analog Properties of Digital Circuits for Malicious Hardware," by Kaiyuan Yang, et al., assumes semiconductor foundries (and others in chip fabrication) can be malicious, modifying designs to produce devices that can later be used for malice.
Technical Perspective: Humans and Computers Working Together on Hard Tasks
"Scribe," by Walter S. Lasecki, et al., is one of the first in a recent set of crowdsourcing papers that demonstrated how human workers can collaborate with computing systems to accomplish a real-time task that is difficult for either one to do by itself.
Exploiting the Analog Properties of Digital Circuits For Malicious Hardware
We show how a fabrication-time attacker can leverage analog circuits to create a hardware attack that is small and stealthy.
The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors
This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.
Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia For Spinnable Objects
In this article, we describe an algorithm to generate designs for spinning objects by optimizing their mass distribution.
Technical Perspective: Linking Form, Function, and Fabrication
To avoid costly feedback loops between design, engineering, and fabrication, research in computer graphics has recently tried to incorporate key aspects of function and fabrication into an "intelligent" shape modeling process. A great example for this trend is depicted in "Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects."
Turing’s Pre-War Analog Computers: The Fatherhood of the Modern Computer Revisited
Turing's machines of 1936 were a purely mathematical notion, not an exploration of possible blueprints for physical calculators.
Data Science: Challenges and Directions
While it may not be possible to build a data brain identical to a human, data science can still aspire to imaginative machine thinking.
Mathematics solves problems by pen and paper. CS helps us to go far beyond that.
Technical Perspective: Unexpected Connections
The inherent scalability of an interface is the focus of "The Scalable Commutativity Rule" by Austin T. Clements, et al.
Reimagining the Avatar Dream: Modeling Social Identity in Digital Media
Explore the limits of using the computer to imagine yourself as whomever or whatever you want to be.
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