Communications of the ACM
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June 2021
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Machine Learning Security Needs New Perspectives and Incentives
Researchers and developers racing to make deep learning available to different applications need to actively seek out and address security challenges before they cause irreparable damage.
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A Number Theorist Who Connects Math to Other Creative Pursuits
Jordan Ellenberg calls on mathematics to explore everything from Internet fads to voting rights.
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Theorists and Experimentalists Must Join Forces
Collaborations between theorists and experimentalists are crucial for accelerating research.
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The Risks of Election Believability (or Lack Thereof)
With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
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Aversion to Versions
Code needs to run anywhere as long as the necessary dependencies can be resolved.
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Locality and Professional Life
The locality principle extends beyond computer memories. It teaches us something about being human.
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Depth and Persistence: What Researchers Need to Know About Impostor Syndrome
Understanding impostor syndrome's complexity and its effect on research persistence.
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Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research
Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process.
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A Vision to Compute like Nature: Thermodynamically
Advocating a new, physically grounded, computational paradigm centered on thermodynamics and an emerging understanding of using thermodynamics to solve problems.