XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
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Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
Machine learning mimics human biases; addressing the problem is complicated.
Non-Von Neumann Computers Providing Brain-Like Functionality
By 2020, the reign of the von Neumann architecture will begin fading away after 75 years of dominance.
Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption
Organizations like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have a hard time cracking suspects' smartphones, thanks to end-to-end encryption.
Innovative programs are drawing women and minority students to computer science, and giving them the support they need to succeed.
"When Does Law Enforcement's Demand to Read Your Data Become a Demand to Read Your Mind?" (Sept. 2017) was an important contribution to the ongoing debate over electronic backdoors. I would like to outline several key aspects of that debate that also need to be addressed.
Opportunities For Women, Minorities in Information Retrieval
Mei Kobayashi describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at the annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval in Tokyo this summer.
Is There a Single Method For the Internet of Things?
Essence can keep software development for the IoT from becoming unwieldy.
Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
User Reviews of Top Mobile Apps in Apple and Google App Stores
The varying review dynamics seen in different app stores can help guide future app development strategies.
Cambits: A Reconfigurable Camera System
Multiple computational cameras can be assembled from a common set of imaging components.
Healthcare robotics can provide health and wellness support to billions of people.
Brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of fully featured replacements for body parts that don't work or are missing.
Amid growing outcry over controversial online videos, tech firms grapple with how best to police online advertising.
Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model For Open Access Publishing?
Analyzing the "Pay What You Want" business model for open access publishing.
Heads-Up Limit Hold’em Poker Is Solved
This paper is an extended version of our original 2015 Science article, with additional results showing Cepheus' in-game performance against computer and human opponents.
Technical Perspective: Exploring a Kingdom By Geodesic Measures
"The Heat Method for Distance Computation," by Crane, Weischedel, and Wardetzky, shows that the gradient of the probability density function of a random walk is parallel to geodesics.
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