The Internet of Things We Don’t Own?
Who will control the 'ordinary pursuits of life' in the digital economy?
Security and Privacy
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The Moral Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
The big news on March 12 of this year was of the Go-playing AI-system AlphaGo securing victory against world champion Lee Se-dol. AlphaGo's victory is a stunning achievement and another milestone in the inexorable march of AI research.
This month I explore the proposal sent in March 2016 by ICANN to the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunication and Information Agency (NTIA) to end the long-standing contractual relationship between ICANN and NTIA for the conduct of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions.
ACM’s 2016 General Election: Please Take This Opportunity to Vote
Meet the candidates who introduce their plans — and stands — for the Association.
Sampling Bias in CS Education, and Where’s the Cyber Strategy?
Mark Guzdial examines a logical fallacy in consumer science education; John Arquilla sees an absence of discussion about the use of information technologies in future conflicts.
A Decade of ACM Efforts Contribute to Computer Science For All
President Obama has asked Congress to approve $4.1 billion in spending to support the Computer Science for All initiative, aimed at providing computer science education in U.S. public schools. CS education in public schools has been a main focus for ACM since the 1990s.
Existing Technologies Can Assist the Disabled
Researchers consider how to adapt broadly available technology products for those battling physical impairments.
Marvin Minsky, an American scientist who co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI laboratory and was honored with the ACM A.M. Turing Award, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 at the age of 88.
Tracing the first four decades in the life of suffix trees, their many incarnations, and their applications.
Is universal access to the Internet a realistic method for addressing worldwide socioeconomic inequality?
The Need For Corporate Diplomacy
Whether global companies succeed or fail often depends on how effectively they develop and maintain cooperative relationships with other organizations and governments.
The proliferation of social media usage has not resulted in significant social change.
More Encryption Means Less Privacy
Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.
Multimodal Biometrics For Enhanced Mobile Device Security
Fusing information from multiple biometric traits enhances authentication in mobile devices.
Technical Perspective: The State (and Security) of the Bitcoin Economy
"A Fistful of Bitcoins" examines, in the context of Bitcoin, what we could learn by studying the patterns encoded in a complete record of every single financial transaction that took place worldwide over a span of five years.
Technical Perspective: Fairness and the Coin Flip
"Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin" introduces an exciting new idea for how to provide fairness: leverage Bitcoin’s existing infrastructure for distributed consensus.
Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin
In this work, we propose to use Bitcoin to design fully decentralized protocols that are secure even if no trusted third party is available.
Are We Headed Toward Another Global Tech Bust?
Enrollments in computing-related undergraduate degree programs are booming. What is driving the enrollment boom is undoubtedly the global technology boom. We must remember, however, we have witnessed such booms in the past.
Enrollments Explode! But Diversity Students Are Leaving . . .
I want to return to the theme of diversity in our discipline. To do this, I have enlisted the help of my colleague at Google, Maggie Johnson. We are both concerned the computer science community is still not benefiting from the diversity it could and should have.
New hardware and services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.
Security Experts Weigh in on Apple vs. the Fbi, Public Policy and the Law at Nyu Event
Most participants agreed the growing sophistication of security threats demands a shift from preventing attacks to detecting them as quickly as possible.
A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection
This paper studies undefined behavior arising in systems programming languages such as C/C++. We introduce a new static checker called STACK that precisely identifies undefined behavior bugs.
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