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Cyber Insecurity and Cyber Libertarianism
Here we are, 70 years into the computer age and after three ACM Turing Awards in the area of cryptography, and we still do not seem to know how to build secure information systems. And yet, our community marches forward with …Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?
Online social media have provided a megaphone for voices that might not have been heard except in limited circles. The amplifying effect, however, gives visibility to deliberate (or ignorant) misinformation, hate speech, incitement …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Ending Null Pointer Crashes
Void safety, says Bertrand Meyer, relies on type declarations and static analysis.COLUMN: News
Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.The Internet of Things
2009 ACM Prize recipient Eric Brewer, 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award co-recipient Vint Cerf, 2016–2017 Athena Lecturer Jennifer Rexford, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Martin Casado, ACM Fellows Nick Feamster and Jim Kurose …COLUMN: Law and Technology
The Anonymization Debate Should Be About Risk, Not Perfection
Focusing on the process of anonymity rather than pursuing the unattainable goal of guaranteed safety.COLUMN: Education
Preparing Tomorrow's Faculty to Address Challenges in Teaching Computer Science
Using a "boot camp" workshop for new faculty orientation.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Toward a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Surmounting the Obstacles
A 10-point plan toward fashioning a proposal to ban some — if not all — lethal autonomous weapons.SECTION: Practice
Making Money Using Math
Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.MongoDB's Javascript Fuzzer
The fuzzer is for those edge cases that your testing did not catch.Research For Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware For Deep Learning
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.SECTION: Contributed articles
Who Owns the Social Web?
User attitudes toward online intellectual property reveal how far social norms have strayed from legal notions of ownership.Responsible Research and Innovation in the Digital Age
RRI requires doing the best science for the world, not only the best science in the world.SECTION: Review articles
Contest Theory
Exploring the basic game theory models of contests found in online services.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Functional Compilers
"Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion" points out that stream fusion by itself is not well suited for generating bulk instructions such as vector or SIMD instructions.Exploiting Vector Instructions with Generalized Stream Fusion
Programmers should not have to sacrifice code clarity or good software engineering practices to obtain performance. This work shows how to attain this goal for high-level Haskell in the domain of sequence-processing functions …Technical Perspective: Building Knowledge Bases from Messy Data
"DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction" is a prime example of groundbreaking work in the area of Knowledge Base Construction.DeepDive: Declarative Knowledge Base Construction
We describe DeepDive, a system that combines database and machine learning ideas to help to develop knowledge base construction systems.COLUMN: Last byte
Beyond 'Star Trek'
On a mission to boldly go where no man has gone before, the series and movies somehow missed some promising technologies . . .DEPARTMENT: Departments
