Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
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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.
The Pushback Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Code Review
Research shows that White, male, and younger engineers receive less pushback than those in other demographics.
Given the complexity of data science projects and related demand for human expertise, automation has the potential to transform the data science process.
Technical Perspective: Applying Design-Space Exploration to Quantum Architectures
"Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" presents a study on scaling trapped-ion quantum architectures, and challenges the conventional wisdom of experimentalists in the field.
Technical Perspective: How Do Experts Learn New Programming Languages?
"Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?" by Shrestha et al. provides insight into the difficulty of learning new languages and suggests paths forward to addressing it.
Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?
Our findings demonstrate that interference is a widespread phenomenon, forcing programmers to adopt suboptimal, opportunistic learning strategies.
Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Toward realizing QCCD-based trapped ion systems with 50-100 qubits, we perform an extensive application-driven architectural study evaluating the key design choices of trap sizing, communication topology, and operation implementation methods.
A focus on causality is promising to help researchers overcome shortcomings that have bedeviled more traditional approaches to artificial intelligence.
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