It is entirely feasible to imagine the Internet of Medical Things with a significant capacity for remote medical diagnosis and triage.
Vinton G. Cerf Page 5DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.
John Arquilla, Jeremy Roschelle Pages 6-7COLUMN: News
Chips designed specifically to model the neurons and synapses in the human brain are poised to change computing in profound ways.
Samuel Greengard Pages 9-11
Motion pictures are using new techniques in computer-generated imagery to create feature-length performances by convincingly "de-aged" actors.
Don Monroe Pages 12-14
Experts agree technology causes some negative behaviors, but they are divided on how bad the problem is.
Logan Kugler Pages 15-16COLUMN: Broadening participation
A unique partnership seeks to address the underrepresentation and unique barriers facing Latina women and girls of color in information technology.
Jannie Fernandez, JeffriAnne Wilder Pages 18-21COLUMN: Kode vicious
Rethinking the content of introductory computing around a data-centric approach to better engage and support a diversity of students.
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler Pages 24-26COLUMN: Viewpoint
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
Christine L. Borgman, Michael J. Scroggins, Irene V. Pasquetto, R. Stuart Geiger, Bernadette M. Boscoe, Peter T. Darch, Charlotte Cabasse-Mazel, Cheryl Thompson, Milena S. Golshan Pages 30-32SECTION: Practice
A tool that helps journalists discover new story angles by offering insight not search results.
Neil Maiden, Konstantinos Zachos, Amanda Brown, Dimitris Apostolou, Balder Holm, Lars Nyre, Aleksander Tonheim, Arend van den Beld Pages 46-53
Data on CS graduation rates among six academic institutions in NC traces the demographics of those participating (or not) in the discipline.
Fay Cobb Payton, Alexa Busch Pages 60-68SECTION: Review articles
Research replication only works if there is confidence built into the results.
Andy Cockburn, Pierre Dragicevic, Lonni Besançon, Carl Gutwin Pages 70-79SECTION: Research highlights
Magellan's key insight is that a successful entity matching system must offer a versatile system building paradigm for entity matching that can be easily adapted for different application needs.
Wang-Chiew Tan Page 82
Entity matching can be viewed as a special class of data science problems and thus can benefit from system building ideas in data science.
AnHai Doan, Pradap Konda, Paul Suganthan G. C., Yash Govind, Derek Paulsen, Kaushik Chandrasekhar, Philip Martinkus, Matthew Christie Pages 83-91
We show that by making just a few changes to a parallel/distributed relational database system, such a system can become a competitive platform for scalable linear algebra.
Shangyu Luo, Zekai J. Gao, Michael Gubanov, Luis L. Perez, Dimitrije Jankov, Christopher Jermaine Pages 93-101COLUMN: Last byte