Moshe Vardi suggests in his January 2020 column that ACM conferences do more to support remote participation. I have several concerns about his proposals.
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Online Voting Still Security Pipedream
The Viewpoint in the September 2019 issue "Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)," while interesting, was flawed and failed to justify the claims made.
You Can Publish It!: (You Have To)
The Viewpoint Column "Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)" in the September 2019 issue is naïve and unscientific. It does not cite any of the scientific literature the author is claiming to refute.
The concept of randomness is easy to grasp on an intuitive level but challenging to characterize in rigorous mathematical terms.
A Case Against Mission-Critical Applications of Machine Learning
In their column "Learning Machine Learning" (Dec. 2018), Ted G. Lewis and Peter J. Denning raised a crucial question about machine learning systems.
Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
Don’t Ignore the Cost of ‘Embedded Energy’
Andrew A. Chien's Editor's Letter (March 2019) addressed the topic of our common responsibility for the ecological cost of our industry but said nothing about so-called "embedded energy" when exploring the growth of electronic waste.
Between the Lines in the China Region Special Section
I thought privacy in China deserved better treatment than was expressed in the foreword of the special section on the China Region (Nov. 2018), that "People in China seem less sensitive about privacy."
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
Vinton G. Cerf's "The Internet in the 21st Century" (Sept. 2018) highlighted many challenges facing today's Internet. The fundamental issue becomes what changes are warranted and who will be responsible for defining and administering them.
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