Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud
Multiparty Computation permits computation on encrypted values.
Systems and Networking
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How Does One Divide with Napier’s Rods?
Napier's multiplication and division rods, deriving from the basic multiplication table, simplify calculations considerably.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to make it rain in the desert, a first step toward controlling the weather.
How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds
The ability to discover and experience world building is a relatively unique privilege afforded to computer programmers.
Photonic Processors Light the Way
Highly efficient light-based processors can overcome the bottlenecks of today's electronics.
Non-Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
A new blockchain-based technology is changing how the art world works, and changing how we think about asset ownership in the process.
Protecting the Global Internet from Technology Cold Wars
Considering the perceived dangers of the global information flow.
Security Done Right Can Make Smart Cities Wise
Seeking security improvements for smart cities.
Exploring Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine' and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
Back-of-the-envelope calculations are a powerful professional practice.
Should two private companies have complete control over the world's cellphones?
Integrating ethics into artificial intelligence education and development.
Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
A discussion of concerns on quantum vulnerability for the automobile industry.
The Future Is Big Graphs: A Community View on Graph Processing Systems
Ensuring the success of big graph processing for the next decade and beyond.
Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE
"WINOGRANDE" explores new methods of dataset development and adversarial filtering, expressly designed to prevent AI systems from making claims of smashing through benchmarks without making real progress.
The Sand-Heap Paradox of Privacy and Influence
In 2018, Arnold Kling wrote a famous blog article, "How the Internet turned bad." It is time for us, as a community, to ask now: "How do we turn the Internet good?"
Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?
"PlanAlyzer," by Emma Tosch et al., details PlanAlyzer software, the first tool to statically check the validity of online experiments.
Formalizing and Guaranteeing Human-Robot Interaction
As robots begin to interact closely with humans, we need to build systems worthy of trust regarding the safety and quality of the interaction.
An Internet of Things Service Roadmap
A blueprint for leveraging the tremendous opportunities the IoT has to offer.
PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments
We present the first approach for checking the internal validity of online experiments statically, that is, from code alone.
WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale
We introduce WinoGrande, a large-scale dataset of 44k problems, inspired by the original Winograd Schema Challenge, but adjusted to improve both the scale and the hardness of the dataset.
Playing With, and Against, Computers
2019 ACM Computing Prize recipient David Silver on developing the AlphaGo algorithm, his fascination with Go, and on teaching computers to play.
Updating emergency rescue equipment and tactics with digital technologies.
Protecting Enterprise Use of IoT
How to strengthen the security of the Internet of Things in organizations.
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