The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.
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The growing popularity of computational workflows is also a cause for concern. How can we enjoy the common benefits of the workflows and eliminate the risks?
Perspectives on the role and responsibility of the data-management research community in designing, developing, using, and overseeing automated decision systems.
Technical Perspective: The Compression Power of the BWT
"Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture," by Dominik Kempa and Tomasz Kociumaka, finally settles the question of how well r in the BWT captures repetitiveness.
Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture
In this paper, we show that r = (z log2 n) holds for every text. This result has numerous implications for text indexing and data compression.
Learning New Things and Avoiding Obstacles
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Jack Dongarra never intended to work with computers.
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications.
Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Explorations in CPS education and related research projects over the past two decades unveil where CPS learning is headed.
The Go Programming Language and Environment
Released as open source in November 2009, Go has become the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider. Its creators look back on how Go got here and why it has stuck around.
Technical Perspective: ‘What Is the Ideal Operating System?’
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation
We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.
Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for fake news detection.
Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?
Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.
The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.
Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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