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Research and Advances Feb 1 2021

Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications

Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving this critical problem.

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Opinion Feb 1 2021

Bringing Stability to Wireless Connections

2020 Marconi Prize recipient Andrea Goldsmith on MIMO technologies, millimeter-wave communications, and her goals as the new dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Leah Hoffmann

News Jan 26 2021

‘Are You Real?’

An ecosystem is emerging for ‘digital human’ development.

Gregory Goth

A Digital Employee developed by IPoft company Amelia.

News Jan 21 2021

ACM TechNews Top Articles of 2020

Once again, the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2020 included more than a bit of coverage on programming and programming languages.

Lawrence M. Fisher

News Jan 19 2021

“Can You Hear Me Now That I’m On 5G?”

Additional 5G spectrum is on the way…but which entity will control it?

Keith Kirkpatrick

The future of 5G unclear, just like its real promise.

News Jan 14 2021

Just Think: The Outlook for BCI

Where Brain-Computer Interfaces are headed.

Esther Shein

A test subject directs moves in a computer chess game with his thoughts.

News Jan 12 2021

Finally, Apps to Sink Your Teeth Into

Developers are beginning to incorporate teeth into new technologies.

Paul Marks

BLOG@CACM Jan 11 2021

Project Managers Shouldn’t Trust Their Programmers. Do This Instead

Don't simply trust and pay your programmers. Why? Because you may end up losing. Instead, you need to validate and review the work performed. Doing so set you up for winning. Here's why.

Yegor Bugayenko

News Jan 7 2021

Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course

The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?

John Delaney

News Jan 5 2021

Digital IDs Make Their Mark

Encrypted identification data on a smartcard or smartphone can deliver significant benefits while boosting security, but raise concerns about privacy and the potential for abuse.

Samuel Greengard

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems

The virtualization of conferences due to COVID-19 has sharpened my conviction that the computing-research publication system is badly broken and in need of a serious reboot.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Technical Perspective: SkyCore’s Architecture Takes It to the ‘Edge’

"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular network, flying to areas in the network in order to improve wireless connectivity.

Richard Han

News Jan 1 2021

Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19

Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.

Chris Edwards

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News Jan 1 2021

Fugaku Takes the Lead

Japan tops the Top500 supercomputer rankings, for the moment.

Don Monroe

Fugaku at Riken Center for Computational Science

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Cybersecurity Research for the Future

Considering the wide range of technological and societal trade-offs associated with cybersecurity.

Terry Benzel

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Content Moderation Modulation

Deliberating on how to regulate—or not regulate—online speech in the era of evolving social media.

Kate Klonick

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Opinion Jan 1 2021

The Immortal Soul of an Old Machine

Taking apart a book to figure out how it works.

Thomas Haigh

The Soul of a New Machine, stylized cover image

Opinion Jan 1 2021

Insights for AI from the Human Mind

How the cognitive sciences can inform the quest to build systems with the flexibility of the human mind.

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

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Practice Jan 1 2021

The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

Edlyn V. Levine

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

How to Transition Incrementally to Microservice Architecture

A field study examines technological advances that have created versatile software ecosystems to develop and deploy microservices.

Karoly Bozan, Kalle Lyytinen, and Gregory M. Rose

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes?

Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.

José González Cabañas, Àngel Cuevas, Aritz Arrate, and Ruben Cuevas

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Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

Secure Multiparty Computation

MPC has moved from theoretical study to real-world usage. How is it doing?

Yehuda Lindell

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car

Are U.S. government employees behaving ethically when they stockpile software vulnerabilities?

Stephen B. Wicker

Research and Advances Jan 1 2021

SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks

We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core network.

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