2002 ACM Turing laureate Len Adleman, 2014 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Dan Boneh, 2015 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Brent Waters, and ACM Fellows Patrick McDaniel and Paul Van Oorschot discuss current issues in cybersecurity.
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Consider Indirect Threats of AI, Too
Alan Bundy's Viewpoint "Smart Machines Are Not a Threat to Humanity" (Feb. 2017) was too limited in light of the recent accomplishments of artificial intelligence. Reducing the entire field to four "successful AI systems" does not give the full picture of the impact of AI on humanity.
ACM has recognized 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cryptography, computer architecture, high performance computing, and programming languages.
Address the Consequences of AI in Advance
The February 2017 Viewpoints, "Smart Machines Are Not a Threat to Humanity" and "AI Dangers: Imagined and Real," both relied heavily on the lack of direct relevance of Moore's Law.
Use the Scientific Method in Computer Science
Adi Livnat's and Christos Papadimitriou's critique of genetic algorithms in "Sex as an Algorithm" (Nov. 2016) stands in counterpoint to a voluminous empirical record of practical successes.
To help celebrate 50 years of the ACM Turing Award and the visionaries who have received it, ACM has launched a campaign called "Panels in Print," which takes the form of a collection of responses from Turing laureates, ACM award recipients, and other ACM experts on a given topic or trend.
React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript
A discussion with Pete Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, and Terry Coatta
Reclaim the Lost Promise of the Semantic Web
I was eager to learn about the latest developments in the Semantic Web as explored in "A New Look at the Semantic Web" (Sept. 2016), but by the end I had the impression the entire vision of a Semantic Web was somehow at risk.
Learn to Live with Academic Rankings
No one likes being reduced to a number. For example, there is much more to my financial picture than my credit score. Yet it is used to make decisions that matter to me, as Moshe Y. Vardi discussed in his Editor’s Letter (Sept. 2016).
Election Auditing and Verifiability
Re "The Risks of Self-Auditing Systems" (June 2016): While Internet voting (like any remote-voting method) is indeed vulnerable to vote buying and selling, end-to-end verifiable voting is not.
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