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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Welcome to the India Region Special Section

The India region plays an important role in the global computing landscape with its highly trained manpower, software companies, and top universities whose students serve local and global needs. The India Region special section mirrors all these facets.

P. J. Narayanan, Pankaj Jalote, and Anand Deshpande

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Turbocharging Database Query Processing and Testing

Query processing and optimization are implemented in all contemporary database systems. Indian universities have played a visible role in addressing important, unsolved issues.

Jayant R. Haritsa and S. Sudarshan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Digital Transformation in the Indian Government

The Digital India program is centered on the vision of offering digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, providing services and enabling the digital empowerment of citizens.

Neeta Verma and Savita Dawar

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

CSpathshala: Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools

Some 300,000 students from 750 schools in 11 states throughout India are learning computing through "unplugged" activities as part of CSpathshala, ACM India's education initiative.

Vipul Shah

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Technology Interventions for Road Safety and Beyond

Inadequate road infrastructure, increasing vehicle population, and poor driver training make a chaotic and often deadly mix in India. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies may improve the situation.

C. V. Jawahar and Venkata N. Padmanabhan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Computing Research at Tata Consultancy Services

Research and innovation have played a unique role in Tata Consultancy Services' journey from a computing division to its current place in global technology consulting.

Gautam Shroff and K. Ananth Krishnan

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Creative Disruption in Fintech from Sri Lanka

The farsighted entry into financial technology, and experience in mobilizing local talent, contributed to the early success of MillenniumIT.

Ajit Samaranayake, Sampath Tilakumara, Thayaparan Sripavan, and Rasika Withanawasam

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Skill Evaluation

Aspiring Minds has developed a scalable platform to test the job skills of millions of graduates entering the labor market in India every year.

Shashank Srikant, Rohit Takhar, Vishal Venugopal, and Varun Aggarwal

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Designing ICT Interventions for Women in Pakistan

In order to ensure entire populations benefit from the deployment and adoption of ICTs an understanding of the specific needs and challenges faced by women is imperative.

Maryam Mustafa, Amna Batool, and Agha Ali Raza

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Extreme Classification

What if you had the superpower to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds, a multiple-choice question with a billion choices? The objective in extreme classification is to develop algorithms with such capabilities.

Manik Varma

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Indic Language Computing

Speech and natural language processing of Indic languages is hugely important and relevant in India, where approximately 420-440 languages are in active use.

Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Hema Murthy, Surangika Ranathunga, and Ranjiva Munasinghe

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media in India

Online social media services have had a profound impact in India, increasing digital literacy, disseminating more local language content, and more. The services have had negative effects as well.

Niloy Ganguly and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

The Rise of the Indian Start-Up Ecosystem

The rise of the Indian start-up ecosystem can be characterized by three major changes over the last decade that offer interesting insights for the start-up ecosystem in India and across the world.

Charles Assisi, Avinash Raghava, and NS Ramnath

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

India Stack – Digital Infrastructure as Public Good

Digital inclusion in India has taken off in a significant way in the last few years. The country is young, ambitious, and connected.

Vivek Raghavan, Sanjay Jain, and Pramod Varma

Opinion Nov 1 2019

Hazards of the Information Superhighway

The presentation of Internet search results not only must be prioritized by some measure of quality but also the ranking criteria must be clear and well understood. Transparency is our friend in this endeavor.

Vinton G. Cerf

BLOG@CACM Nov 1 2019

The Benefits of Indolence

Yegor Bugayenko explains his realization that software developers should go neither above nor beyond.

Yegor Bugayenko

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Research in Theoretical Computer Science

Indian undergraduate programs in computing date back to the early 1980s — a time that also saw the first generation of graduate students from India taking up theoretical computer science.

Meena Mahajan, Madhavan Mukund, and Nitin Saxena

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

The Growth and Evolution of India’s Software Industry

The Indian software industry has matured from providing cost-effective back office support to driving the digital transformation of global companies.

Pankaj Jalote and Pari Natarajan

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

The Internet of the Orals

Researchers and practitioners have used interactive voice response technology to create voice-based services that have found application in India's marginalized communities.

Aditya Vashistha, Umar Saif, and Agha Ali Raza

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Highlights of Software R&D in India

India's achievement as a software superpower rests on decades of work spanning software processes, rigorous engineering, value-adding technologies, and other factors.

Supratik Chakraborty and Vasudeva Varma

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Privacy Concerns with Aadhaar

The debate engendered by the Aadhaar project has propelled India from being a predominantly pre-privacy society to one in which privacy protection in digital databases has emerged as a major national concern.

Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma

Practice Nov 1 2019

Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration

The trade-offs between write and read.

Pat Helland

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Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

Technical Perspective: A Whitebox Solution for Blackbox-Like Behaviors

DeepXplore brings a software testing perspective to deep neural networks and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for enormous amounts of follow-on work in several ways.

David G. Andersen

Research and Advances Nov 1 2019

The Five-Minute Rule 30 Years Later and Its Impact on the Storage Hierarchy

Tracing the evolution of the five-minute rule to help identify imminent changes in the design of data management engines.

Raja Appuswamy, Goetz Graefe, Renata Borovica-Gajic, and Anastasia Ailamaki

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