A Computational Lens on Economics
Our digital infrastructure, which has become a key component of the economic system in developed countries, is one of the few components that did not buckle under the stress of COVID-19.
Security and Privacy
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Challenge Yourself by Reaching for the Highest Bar
"Challenge yourself and reach for the highest bar. If you succeed, keep pushing the boundaries," my friend advised when I started my career at IBM Research. These words have been a guiding force in my career ever since.
Reducing and Eliminating E-Waste
We need to mitigate the environmental impact of disposing of electronics at their end of useful life.
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators
DSAs gain efficiency from specialization and performance from parallelism.
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Blockchain technology can shape innovation and competition in digital platforms, but under what conditions?
ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter for Planet-Scale Applications
This paper distills lessons from Bitcoin ASIC Clouds and applies them to other large scale workloads, showing superior TCO (total cost of ownership) versus CPU and GPU.
Facial recognition technology faces opposition from technology industry giants, and from the grass roots.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
Exit From the Covid-19 Lockdown: There’s an App for That
The Dutch government wants every citizen to download an app for tracking and tracing potential Covid-19 infections, but the app does not yet exist.
What Do DDT and Computing Have in Common?
In addition to reaping computing's bounty (education, information access, entertainment, commerce, efficiency, and more), we should "own" and work to reduce the negative impacts of computing.
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.
How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More
Leveraging expectations for better communication.
The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology
It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.
Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.
Strategically augmented street lamps can become the key enabling technology in smart cities.
Looking to Big Data, AI for COVID-19 Shutdown Exit Strategies
Crowdsourced data, artificial intelligence, and cryptography are emerging as vital tools for controlling transmission of COVID-19 as countries look for exit strategies.
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