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.
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2021: Computing’s Divided Future
China and the West's fundamental systemic differences and growing geopolitical competition are increasingly open. The new reality is pulling the computing community apart, and spilling over into the academic and research communities.
Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems
The virtualization of conferences due to COVID-19 has sharpened my conviction that the computing-research publication system is badly broken and in need of a serious reboot.
In a world of nuance and interpretation, the objectivity of math spoke to me (and still does). To be able to use applied math to do science through the use of very large-scale computers was magic.
Technical Perspective: SkyCore’s Architecture Takes It to the ‘Edge’
"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular network, flying to areas in the network in order to improve wireless connectivity.
Deliberating on how to regulate—or not regulate—online speech in the era of evolving social media.
Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes?
Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.
Digital Instruments as Invention Machines
An analysis of patenting history from 1850 to 2010 to detect long-term patterns of knowledge spillovers via prior-art citations of patented inventions.
The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car
Are U.S. government employees behaving ethically when they stockpile software vulnerabilities?
SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks
We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core network.
Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes
In this paper, we study the asymptotic scaling of the space overhead needed for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Technical Perspective: Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation
In "Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes," by Omar Fawzi, et al., the authors produce an algorithm that can rapidly deduce the error in a quantum expander code, even when the syndrome is partially incorrect.
From Solar Sunrise to SolarWinds
The hack of critical departments of the U.S. government—and of many leading corporations—should come as no surprise.
Manufactured goods today do not seem to take into account the possibility of repair.
SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
We propose an Internet of Materials, where the very materials of objects and surfaces are augmented or manufactured to have computational capabilities.
Technical Perspective: The Future of Large-Scale Embedded Sensing
The system described in "SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials" works passively, energized essentially by static electricity generated as layers move relative to each other during vibration.
Security Analysis of SMS as a Second Factor of Authentication
The challenges of multifactor authentication based on SMS, including cellular security deficiencies, SS7 exploits, and SIM swapping.
The Dark Triad and Insider Threats in Cyber Security
Tracing the relationship between pathological personality traits and insider cyber sabotage.
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