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Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Cognitive Biases in Software Development

We conducted a two-part field study to examine the extent to which cognitive biases occur, the consequences of these biases on developer behavior, and the practices and tools that developers use to deal with these biases.

programmer at laptop computer in bright room

Research and Advances Apr 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection

In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for fake news detection.

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

man with newspapers and a sign for a true-false crossroads, illustration

News Mar 31 2022

Europeans Wary of New Digital Identity

Rollout of European Digital Identity sparks Big Brother-type fears.

Arnout Jaspers | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Mar 29 2022

Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?

Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.

Paul Marks

Electric vehicle charging stations at a Walmart store.

BLOG@CACM Mar 23 2022

The Mesm: Ukraine Beats Russia

The Mesm is considered the first stored program digital computer in Continental Europe.

Herbert Bruderer

BLOG@CACM Mar 10 2022

Anti-Sanctions: New Operating System for Mobile Devices

There comes a time not only of crisis, but also of great opportunities. And here, it is important to take advantage of these new opportunities.

Andrei Sukhov and Aleksandr Romanov

News Mar 10 2022

The Data Science Boom is Here

Data science brings a new spin to computer science education.

Gregory Goth

BLOG@CACM Mar 4 2022

Making Bad Decisions

In software engineering, many technical decisions are context-dependent, and there are often complex edge cases to consider.

Doug Meil

BLOG@CACM Mar 4 2022

High-Performance Mobile System-on-Chip Clusters

Simply stating the problem is not enough; it is necessary to look for a quick way out of the situation, relying on available resources.

Andrei Sukhov and Aleksandr Romanov

News Mar 3 2022

Validating NFTs

Ensuring the security of non-fungible tokens.

Keith Kirkpatrick | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Mar 1 2022

Will No-Code Crack the Code?

No-code platforms help non-coders program, but developers will always be needed.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Mar 1 2022

Accelerating AI

Specialized hardware to boost the speed of machine learning also saves energy.

Don Monroe

beams of light emanating from a chip, illustration

Opinion Mar 1 2022

How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.

Pamela Samuelson

Opinion Mar 1 2022

A Call to Action

Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.

Ronald M. Baecker

the words 'Raise Your Voice' in the shape of a bullhorn

Opinion Mar 1 2022

Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?

Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.

Opinion Mar 1 2022

The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software

Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.

Toby Walsh

numbered frames around the heads of indefinite figures, illustration

Opinion Mar 1 2022

Futures of Digital Governance

Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.

Urs Gasser and Virgílio Almeida

pattern over aerial view of people sitting around a conference table

Opinion Mar 1 2022

Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.

Stuart Madnick

Practice Mar 1 2022

A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

The history of Berkeley DB.

Kirk McKusick