Top ACM TechNews articles of 2019
One of the most popular topics among the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2019 was, once again, programming and programming languages.
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Why Is There No Well-Known Swiss IT Industry?
Herbert Bruderer asks why no information technology industry emerged in Switzerland in the 1950s, despite the appearance of computers from several sources.
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
Can Antiferromagnetic Materials Replace Silicon in Future Computers?
Seeking alternatives to silicon as Moore’s Law approaches its end.
New MacArthur Fellow Takes Aim at Online Harassment, Doxing
Danielle Citron, a privacy scholar who has done pioneering work in combating hate crimes and other abuses in cyberspace, has been named a 2019 MacArthur fellow.
A personalized take on three things we have to celebrate about the Internet today.
Evolution Through Revolution: Getting Your Team to Embrace Change
Don't accept the status quo. Instead, build a team willing to fight for positive change.
Dependability in Edge Computing
Edge computing holds great promise, and almost as many challenges in deployment.
Mastering Concurrent Computing through Sequential Thinking
A 50-year history of concurrency.
Multiplication Hits the Speed Limit
A problem "around since antiquity" may have been resolved by a new algorithm.
Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?
The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.
How the Internet Spans the Globe
The modern Internet is made possible by hundreds of thousands of miles of undersea cables.
Increasing Automation in Policing
Seeking the delicate balance between civil liberties and policing public safety.
Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?
Industry's dreams and fears for this new technology.
Cracks in Open Collaboration in Universities
Universities and the interchange of scholars and students in international collaborations have long played an important role in knitting a fabric of human relationships and shared understanding. This fabric is fraying rapidly.
In Search of the Shortest Possible Schedule
Bertrand Meyer considers how to speed up software engineering.
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
Autonomy and Automation on the Water
Self-driving and remote-controlled vessels are taking over some duties from human crews.
Columbia University researchers achieve a meeting of minds on Artificial Intelligence-assisted hearing technology.
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