In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
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Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic
Turning believers into nonbelievers.
Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
A look through the lens of neighbor discovery protocols reveals significant potential to improve electronic contact-tracing accuracy.
Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.
Confidential Computing Conquers Hacks
Protecting data while it is in use, rather than at rest or in flight.
Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.
Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities
Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.
AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease
3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.
Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
This paper proposes speculative taint tracking (STT), a high security and high performance hardware mechanism, to block speculative execution attacks.
Technical Perspective: A Recipe for Protecting Against Speculation Attacks
"Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data," by Jiyong Yu et al., might be a beginning of an end to speculation-based attacks.
Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing
ACM Computing Prize recipient Scott Aaronson discusses his work in quantum complexity.
The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only an issue of fairness, but also of excellence; research consistently finds that diverse teams produce better results than non-diverse teams.
Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?
The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.
Michael A. Cusumano's October 2021 column, "Section 230 and a Tragedy of the Commons," contains some fundamental factual errors that further muddle a debate that already has been rife with inaccuracies.
What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
ACM Publications Finances for 2020
This annual update on ACM Publications finances summarizes income and expenses for the 2020 calendar year.
Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning
What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to 13-15 year olds through situations/issues set in the context of cybersecurity in ways that "lift the hood" on how ML models are designed, how they they work, and the impact of human decisions in this process.
Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
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