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Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact of using sampled metrics instead of exactly computed metrics.
Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on visualization search.
Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information.
Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.
Existing and new technologies can help cut datacenters' carbon footprint.
AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?
The emergence of large learned models is changing the nature of artificial intelligence research in fundamental ways.
Enterprise Metrics and Optimization
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
Turing’s Influence on Computer Construction is Overestimated
How great was Turing's influence on early British automatic computers? Opinions differ considerably.
InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Development Contests into Crisis
In my opinion, the main problem of the InnovateFPGA contest is the lack of a permanent team to lead.
Inventing an imaginary company helped me imagine how powerful it can be to have data available that permits fact-based analysis of business performance, projections for future business operations, and understanding of the marketplace the business serves.
Addressing Labor Shortages with Automation
Labor shortages have many companies turning to automation technology, but with mixed outcomes.
Depending on climate conditions, the availability of renewables and other factors, immersion cooling can make a profound difference in both energy consumption and costs.
A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning
Kernel methods clarify why neural networks generalize so well.
Jack J. Dongarra is the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades.
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
Toward Total-System Trustworthiness
Considering how to achieve the long-term goal to systemically reduce risks.
Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing's Responsibility
Efficiencies delivered by computing technology could play a vital role in enabling continued functionality within a resource-constrained future.
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.
The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
The growing popularity of computational workflows is also a cause for concern. How can we enjoy the common benefits of the workflows and eliminate the risks?
Perspectives on the role and responsibility of the data-management research community in designing, developing, using, and overseeing automated decision systems.
Challenges, Experiments, and Computational Solutions in Peer Review
Improving the peer review process in a scientific manner shows promise.
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