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Opinion Oct 1 2018

Reaping the Benefits of a Diverse Background

Earlier this year, ACM named Dina Katabi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing for her creative contributions to wireless systems.

Leah Hoffmann

News Sep 27 2018

How Software Enabled the Thai Cave Rescue

Software-defined radios allowed the rescuers to communicate, when simple radio technology could not.

R. Colin Johnson

A map of rescue operations at Tham Luang cave in Thailand.

News Sep 20 2018

.S. Election System Security Still Vexing

There appears to be no standard approach among the state and local jurisdictions that will administer the next election.

Gregory Goth

Some election observers believe the best way to guarantee election security is to use paper ballots, audits, and other procedural safeguards.

News Sep 18 2018

Detecting Illness by Watching You Type

Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.

Joe Dysart

News Sep 13 2018

AI Helps Doctors Use Data Better

Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have a significant impact on health-related costs and outcomes.

R. Colin Johnson

The quantum sensor from Ram Group can monitor a patient's temperature, blood pressure, electrocardiography, heart rate, heart rate variability, and atrial and ventricular pressures.

News Sep 7 2018

Driver’s Licenses Going Digital

Iowa plans to be the first U.S. state to replace hard-copy driver's licenses with an app.

Joe Dysart

News Sep 6 2018

The Outlook for Reality: Mixed

Exploring new frontiers in augmented and virtual reality.

Jake Widman

The audience at an augmented live theater performance.

Opinion Sep 1 2018

Computer Architecture: Disruption from Above

For the research community, opportunities to shape a profoundly different, new age of computer architecture are emerging.

Andrew A. Chien

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2018

Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?

Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.

Yegor Bugayenko

News Sep 1 2018

Borders in the Cloud

New data protection laws raise questions about whether certain jurisdictions are trying to thwart the ability of foreign governments to obtain data on their citizens.

Keith Kirkpatrick

News Sep 1 2018

Robotic Implants

Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."

Gregory Mone

Opinion Sep 1 2018

When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid

Observations on the use of machine learning and facial inferences to classify people using inexplicable data.

Frank Pasquale

Research and Advances Sep 1 2018

A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks

Tensor processing units improve performance per watt of neural networks in Google datacenters by roughly 50x.

Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, and David Patterson

Research and Advances Sep 1 2018

Peer Assessment of CS Doctoral Programs Shows Strong Correlation with Faculty Citations

Strong correlation indicates notable research productivity of individual faculty members in turn boosts the standing of their programs.

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Research and Advances Sep 1 2018

Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals

This paper demonstrates a new technology that can infer a person's emotions from RF signals reflected off his body.

Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, and Dina Katabi

Research and Advances Sep 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Is Your WiFi a Sensor?

"Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals" shows that not only can the heartrate be counted with accuracy comparable to ECG devices, but the variabilities of the heart signals—in each pulse—can be recognized as well.

Romit Roy Choudhury

Opinion Sep 1 2018

Overtrust in the Robotic Age

A contemporary ethical challenge.

Alan R. Wagner, Jason Borenstein, and Ayanna Howard

Opinion Sep 1 2018

Navigating with Accelerating Technology Change

Mathematical tools such as S-curves locate inflection points in technology-accelerated social spaces; where we move next depends on our navigational skills.

Peter J. Denning

Opinion Sep 1 2018

Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?

Considering the potential danger to individuals of rapid coevolution.

Edward A. Lee

Opinion Sep 1 2018

An Academic’s Observations from a Sabbatical at Google

How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.

Adam Barker

Practice Sep 1 2018

Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

Gustavo Alonso and Peter Bailis

Practice Sep 1 2018

Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification

Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.

Noor Mubeen

Practice Sep 1 2018

GitOps: A Path to More Self-Service IT

IaC + PR = GitOps

Thomas A. Limoncelli

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Research and Advances Sep 1 2018

Can Beyond-CMOS Devices Illuminate Dark Silicon?

The "new Dark Silicon" model benchmarks transistor technologies at the architectural level for multi-core processors.

Robert Perricone, X. Sharon Hu, Joseph Nahas, and Michael Niemier

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