Educational Interventions and Female Enrollment in IT Degrees
A study of female students enrolled in IT degrees in Australia traces how programs influenced decision making.
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The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology
Technological and economic forces are now pushing computing away from being general purpose and toward specialization.
Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques
The evolution of and countermeasures for existing reconnaissance techniques.
Technical Perspective: Localizing Insects Outdoors
"3D Localization for Subcentimeter-Sized Devices," by Iyer, et al., neatly separates and solves the problems of robotic locomotion, sensing, localization, and communications packaged into a tiny payload.
3D Localization for Subcentimeter-Sized Devices
We present the first localization system that consumes microwatts of power at a mobile device and can be localized across multiple rooms in settings such as homes and hospitals.
Is MFA Needed to Improve Security?
Considering the outlook for multi-factor authentication applications.
The Scramble for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computers are expected to undermine today's computer security.
Auditing AI and Autonomous Systems; Building an Infrastructure of Trust
How do we build trust? How can we systematically assure trust in our systems? How would auditing AI and autonomous systems contribute to this goal?
Explaining how the world's most famous accounting/audit disaster—Enron—exemplifies the merits of Independent Audit and helps illustrate how a robust system of oversight is essential to building trust.
Driving the Cloud to True Zero Carbon
Climate change has come to the fore as a business concern, and this compels the business leaders of computing technology companies to be on the side of progress toward true zero carbon.
Technical Perspective: Solving the Signal Reconstruction Problem at Scale
"Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications," by Abolfazl Asudeh, et al. shows that algorithmic insights about SRP, combined with database techniques, can be used to scalably solve the signal reconstruction problem.
The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.
Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
CAPE: A Framework for Assessing Equity throughout the Computer Science Education Ecosystem
Examining both the leading indicators of equity in CS and the lagging indicators of student outcomes.
Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta
How design and operation of modern cloud-scale systems conflict with GDPR.
Keeping Science on Keel When Software Moves
An approach to reproducibility problems related to porting software across machines and compilers.
DP-Cryptography: Marrying Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Emerging Applications
Synthesizing the emerging directions of research at the intersection of differential privacy and cryptography.
Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications
Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving this critical problem.
Bringing Stability to Wireless Connections
2020 Marconi Prize recipient Andrea Goldsmith on MIMO technologies, millimeter-wave communications, and her goals as the new dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Encrypted identification data on a smartcard or smartphone can deliver significant benefits while boosting security, but raise concerns about privacy and the potential for abuse.
Shape the Future of Computing
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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