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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

National Digital Library of India: Democratizing Education in India

The National Digital Library of India was conceptualized with an aim to bring equity of access to educational resources for every Indian through a single window access mechanism.

Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Partha Pratim Das, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Prutor: An Intelligent Learning and Management System for Programming Courses

The Prutor browser-based tutoring system offers an integrated development environment (IDE) with a text editor, linter, interactive access to a remote compiler, and a debugger.

Amey Karkare and Purushottam Kar

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Bringing the Missing Women Back: CS Education for Women in India's Engineering Institutions

Several initiatives have come up to address gender gaps in the context of engineering education in India.

Bidisha Chaudhuri, Meenakshi D'Souza, and Janaki Srinivasan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Toward Explainable Deep Learning

Explainability has become a cornerstone of responsible AI use and deployment.

Vineeth N. Balasubramanian

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Fake News in India: Scale, Diversity, Solution, and Opportunities

The massive proliferation of fake news in India has created a dire need to consider solutions explicitly catering to the region.

Shivangi Singhal, Rishabh Kaushal, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Theory Research in India: 2019–2022

We explore some of the results of exciting new research in the field of algorithms in India.

C. Aiswarya, V. Arvind, and Saket Saurabh

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

AI and Data Science Centers in Top Indian Academic Institutions

A ook at the activities of artificial intelligence and data science centers located at seven top Indian institutes.

B. Ravindran, Sunita Sarawagi, and Aditi Jain

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

COVID-19 Modeling for India and a Roadmap for the Future

A look at models developed in India to forecast the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country.

Siva Athreya, Gautam I. Menon, and Rajesh Sundaresan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Cybersecurity in India

A look at some of the major research accomplishments resulting from the efforts of several academic institutes to secure cyberspace.

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Practice Nov 1 2022

Research for Practice: Convergence

The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.

Martin Kleppmann and Peter Alvaro

News Nov 1 2022

Applying the Metaverse

Business, entertainment, and fashion companies already are staking their claims in this enhanced virtual world.

Keith Kirkpatrick

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Reliability at Multiple Stages in a Data Analysis Pipeline

Data-centric methods designed to increase end-to-end reliability of data-driven decision systems.

Yuval Moskovitch and H. V. Jagadish

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Opinion Nov 1 2022

The New Wizard of Menlo Park

An ambitious reporter's quest to interview a reclusive tech CEO leads her to find out who really pulls the strings.

Brian Clegg

Research and Advances Oct 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things

"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.

Yang Zhang

Opinion Oct 1 2022

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.

Vinton G. Cerf

News Oct 1 2022

Neurosymbolic AI

Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.

Don Monroe

News Oct 1 2022

Applied AI Teaches Handwriting

In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?

Esther Shein

Opinion Oct 1 2022

Data Platforms and Network Effects

How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.

Michael A. Cusumano

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Opinion Oct 1 2022

Securing the Company Jewels

GitHub and runbook security.

George V. Neville-Neil

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Practice Oct 1 2022

Linear Address Spaces

Unsafe at any speed.

Poul-Henning Kamp

Research and Advances Oct 1 2022

Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape

A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.

Advait Deshpande

Research and Advances Oct 1 2022

Creating a Revolutionary Academic Program

Overcoming the inherent challenges.

Umakishore Ramachandran and Zvi Galil

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Research and Advances Oct 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning

"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification space.

Athina Markopoulou

Research and Advances Oct 1 2022

Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web

In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long short-term memory layers and convolutional neural networks.

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