Privacy concerns arise around the New York Police Department's drone program.
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Research groups working independently are closing in on imbuing limbs with a sense of touch via "e-dermis."
Seeking Digital Humanities, IT Tech Support
Herbert Bruderer explains why the opposite of digital is not analog; Robin K. Hill describes how the challenges of user support are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Libraries Considered Hazardous
Libraries of the future cannot merely be catalogs of digital content. The objects in the digital library will need to interact in some fashion so that truth value of their contents can be adjusted as new knowledge becomes available.
A Brave New World of Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering technologies are advancing at a furious rate, changing the world one cell at a time.
An array of technologies are making farms more efficient, safer, and profitable.
Technical Perspective: To Do or Not To Do: Extending SQL with Integer Linear Programming?
"Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries," by Brucato et al., makes a case for marrying the well-established paradigms of constrained optimization (specifically ILP) and traditional SQL querying.
Seeking to promote regulations for reliable software for the long-term prosperity of the software industry.
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
Innovations like domain-specific hardware, enhanced security, open instruction sets, and agile chip development will lead the way.
Even Central Users Do Not Always Drive Information Diffusion
Diffusion speed and scale depend on all kinds of information, not just which users have the most or fewest connections.
SONYC: A System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution
SONYC integrates sensors, machine listening, data analytics, and citizen science to address noise pollution in New York City.
Blockchains From a Distributed Computing Perspective
The roots of blockchain technologies are deeply interwoven in distributed computing.
Separation logic is a key development in formal reasoning about programs, opening up new lines of attack on longstanding problems.
Technical Perspective: How Economic Theories Can Help Computers Beat the Heat
The authors of "Distributed Strategies for Computational Sprints" bring the rich theory of allocating scarce resources to the challenge of managing computational sprinting in datacenters.
Scalable Computation of High-Order Optimization Queries
We present a complete system that supports package queries, a new query model that extends traditional database queries to handle complex constraints and preferences over answer sets, allowing the declarative specification and efficient evaluation of a significant class of constrained optimization problems—ILP—within a database.
Distributed Strategies for Computational Sprints
We describe a computational sprinting architecture in which many, independent chip multiprocessors share a power supply and sprints are constrained by the chips' thermal limits and the rack's power limits.
Rogue Drone Pilots Face A New Foe: Deep Learning AI
A growing number of counter-drone systems look to overwhelm rogue drones, and find their pilots.
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Defending the Orbital Internet
Hypersonic space debris threatens communications beyond the atmosphere.
Efficiency, Innovation Mark Research In Future Memories
The U.S. National Science Foundation is exploring multiple approaches.
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