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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Digital Interventions at Scale: Lessons from NPTEL and IIT Madras B.S. Degree Program

Online learning provides an effective approach to some of the systemic challenges related to higher education in India. Two key initiatives have demonstrated positive results.

Jayakrishnan Warriem, Andrew Thangaraj, Madhavan Mukund, and Bharathi Balaji

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

National Digital Library of India: Democratizing Education in India

The National Digital Library of India was conceptualized with an aim to bring equity of access to educational resources for every Indian through a single window access mechanism.

Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Partha Pratim Das, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Prutor: An Intelligent Learning and Management System for Programming Courses

The Prutor browser-based tutoring system offers an integrated development environment (IDE) with a text editor, linter, interactive access to a remote compiler, and a debugger.

Amey Karkare and Purushottam Kar

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Bringing the Missing Women Back: CS Education for Women in India's Engineering Institutions

Several initiatives have come up to address gender gaps in the context of engineering education in India.

Bidisha Chaudhuri, Meenakshi D'Souza, and Janaki Srinivasan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Toward Explainable Deep Learning

Explainability has become a cornerstone of responsible AI use and deployment.

Vineeth N. Balasubramanian

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Fake News in India: Scale, Diversity, Solution, and Opportunities

The massive proliferation of fake news in India has created a dire need to consider solutions explicitly catering to the region.

Shivangi Singhal, Rishabh Kaushal, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Theory Research in India: 2019–2022

We explore some of the results of exciting new research in the field of algorithms in India.

C. Aiswarya, V. Arvind, and Saket Saurabh

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

AI and Data Science Centers in Top Indian Academic Institutions

A ook at the activities of artificial intelligence and data science centers located at seven top Indian institutes.

B. Ravindran, Sunita Sarawagi, and Aditi Jain

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

COVID-19 Modeling for India and a Roadmap for the Future

A look at models developed in India to forecast the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country.

Siva Athreya, Gautam I. Menon, and Rajesh Sundaresan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Cybersecurity in India

A look at some of the major research accomplishments resulting from the efforts of several academic institutes to secure cyberspace.

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Practice Nov 1 2022

Research for Practice: Convergence

The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.

Martin Kleppmann and Peter Alvaro

Opinion Nov 1 2022

Accountability and Liability in Computing

The slow progress in cybersecurity is leading many to conclude the problem is not due to just a lack of technical solution but reflects a market failure, which disincentivizes those who may be able to fix serious security vulnerabilities from doing so.

Moshe Y. Vardi

News Nov 1 2022

Applying the Metaverse

Business, entertainment, and fashion companies already are staking their claims in this enhanced virtual world.

Keith Kirkpatrick

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Reliability at Multiple Stages in a Data Analysis Pipeline

Data-centric methods designed to increase end-to-end reliability of data-driven decision systems.

Yuval Moskovitch and H. V. Jagadish

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Intent-Based Networking for the Enterprise: A Modern Network Architecture

IBN promises to better align network operations with enterprise intent, but several challenges must be resolved before it can reach its full potential.

Matthias Falkner and John Apostolopoulos

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats

The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat setting.

Karthik Dantu

Research and Advances Nov 1 2022

Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites

In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.

Opinion Nov 1 2022

The New Wizard of Menlo Park

An ambitious reporter's quest to interview a reclusive tech CEO leads her to find out who really pulls the strings.

Brian Clegg

BLOG@CACM Oct 27 2022

Starlink’s Critical Vulnerability, or Elon Musk is Not Worrying in Vain

We analyze the operations of the Starlink Global Satellite System deployed by SpaceX, in terms of its security and resilience.

Andrei Sukhov, Evgeny Sagatov, and Dmitry Filimonov

News Oct 18 2022

Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through

At the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a diverse panel of researchers discussed the applications and implications of deep learning.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Oct 18 2022

Data Loss Prevention vs. Data-Centric Audit and Protection: What Is the Difference?

A look at the typical tasks solved by DCAP systems, and how they differ from those solved by DLP systems.

Alex Vakulov

BLOG@CACM Oct 18 2022

Data Governance and the Psychology of Tension Management

The balancing of the chaos of no data tension and too much tension on data assets is what data governance frameworks and processes attempt to manage.

Doug Meil

BLOG@CACM Oct 17 2022

In Pursuit of an International Computation Center in Europe

The story of the UNESCO International Computation Center.

Herbert Bruderer

News Oct 4 2022

There is Plenty of Room at The Top (of Supercomputing)

Jack Dongarra on the future of high-performance computing.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

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