Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
Theory
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Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.
Development Use Cases for Semantics-Driven Modeling Languages
Choosing underlying semantic theories and definition techniques must closely follow intended use cases for the modeling language.
From Code Complexity Metrics to Program Comprehension
Understanding code depends not only on the code but also on the brain.
Technical Perspective: Finding Connections between One-Way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity
"Toward Basing Cryptography on the Hardness of EXP," by Yanyi Liu and Rafael Pass, establishes surprisingly tight bidirectional connections between one-way functions and the cross-domain notion of Kolmogorov complexity.
Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Finding novel materials needs more than pure machine learning.
Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.
Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves
Gary Marcus on the systems that "pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society."
Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience
Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.
A new generation of automatic theorem provers eliminate bugs in software and mathematics.
Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code as promised.
Serendipity: When Research in One Area Leads to a Positive Result in Another
A problem of the extremely optimal family of circulant graphs: when research in one scientific field gives an unexpected result in another.
Considering the Impact of Technology on Society
Moshe Vardi on having the difficult conversation about technology and social responsibility.
Virtual Influencers in the Real World
We are increasingly engaging with these digital personalities, online and offline.
Metrics for Success: Why and How to Evaluate Privacy Choice Usability
Assessing the usability of choice and consent mechanisms.
Management and technology challenges of AI-enabled application projects.
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