Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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Neuroscience Misses the Meaning
Examining each transistor in a microprocessor using techniques for analyzing how the human brain works did not yield anticipated understanding.
Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where they are encountered.
Nae’s Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
A new wave of consumer-centric connected fitness and health-related devices is changing healthcare.
Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.
Pollsters’ Failures Signal Need For Changes
For opinion researchers, the unexpected outcomes of the Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election signals it is time to reassess the kinds of data they gather and how they analyze and present it.
It’s Not the Algorithm, It’s the Data
In risk assessment and predictive policing, biased data can yield biased results.
Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?
Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry.
Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.
BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.
Computing History Beyond the U.K. and U.S.: Selected Landmarks from Continental Europe
It is past time to acknowledge 400 years of European computational innovation from non-English-speaking scientists and engineers.
Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
Government-sanctioned and market-based anti-piracy measures can both mitigate economic harm from piracy.
A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS
We systematically test popular TLS implementations and find unexpected transitions in many of their state machines that have stayed hidden for years. We show how some of these flaws lead to critical security vulnerabilities.
Technical Perspective: Cleaning Up Flaws in TLS Implementations
One unfortunate fact about protocols is that as they get older and applied to more scenarios — and TLS is used basically everywhere — they tend to gain weight. A truism of the security community is that "complexity is the enemy of security." What is the community doing about this?
In a series of interactive murder mysteries, I might not have done it, but, then again, maybe I did
Social and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things
"Denial-of-service" cyberattacks require us to up our technical game in Internet security and safety. They also expose the need to frame and enforce social and ethical behavior, privacy, and appropriate use in Internet environments.
Liberal Arts Academia Wants You!
Janet Davis makes a plea to CS practitioners to consider even a short teaching stint.
Model learning emerges as an effective method for black-box state machine models of hardware and software components.
Supercomputers to Replace Particle Accelerators?
Moving beyond the need for physical experiments.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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