April 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 4

April 2022 CACM cover

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Apr 1 2022

Preserving the Internet

The Internet is equally available for beneficial and harmful purposes as is often the case with infrastructure open to public use. How can we preserve its beneficial uses…

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2022

Achieving CS for All Could Take Decades

Mark Guzdial assesses the outlook for students taking computer science classes at the high school level.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

Professor Mark Guzdial

News Apr 1 2022

Can AI Learn to Forget?

Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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News Apr 1 2022

Still Waiting for Self-Driving Cars

Why is it taking so long for autonomous vehicles to hit the road?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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News Apr 1 2022

Technology’s Impact on Morality

Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology's impact on our ethical thinking.

Logan Kugler

Computing Applications

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Opinion Technology strategy and management Apr 1 2022

Global Supply Chain Disruption and Resilience

Tracking the myriad factors influencing shifting supply chains.

Mari Sako

Computing Applications

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Opinion The profession of IT Apr 1 2022

Systems Abstractions

Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.

Peter J. Denning

Computing Applications

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Opinion Kode Vicious Apr 1 2022

Getting Off the Mad Path

Debuggers and assertions.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2022

Opening the black box or Pandora's Box?

Veda C. Storey, Roman Lukyanenko, Wolfgang Maass, and Jeffrey Parsons

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2022

Communications’ Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event

How AI and science are shaping each other.

Andrew A. Chien

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section Apr 1 2022

The second Communications Regional Special Section spotlighting European countries and Israel highlights selected research and innovation projects in areas of traditional…

Jessica R. Cauchard, Matthias Jarke, and Nuria Oliver

Computing Applications

images from April 2022 CACM Europe Region Special Section

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Trends in Computer Science Research within European Countries

European institutes provide major worldwide contributions to research in multiple computer science domains.

Dima Kagan, Michael Fire, and Galit Fuhrmann Alpert

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

On-Skin Computing

A new generation of wearable devices, so-called epidermal devices modeled after human skin, promises significantly better compatibility with the human body.

Jürgen Steimle

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Mobile Phone Usage Data for Disaster Response

Mobility data can provide near real-time insights before, during, and after a disaster, when understanding population movements and mobility is important to the efficient…

Thomas R. C. Smallwood, Véronique Lefebvre, and Linus Bengtsson

Computing Applications

man's hands using a mobile phone

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Robotic Process Automation Platform UiPath

The UiPath platform provides core capabilities that make it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans' interactions with information…

Liliana Dobrica

Computing Applications

RPA robot icon

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

A Federated Infrastructure for European Data Spaces

The Gaia-X project, with more than 300 members, aims at a federated data architecture that comprises not only data and smart services, but also cloud infrastructure…

Boris Otto

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Fenix: A Pan-European Federation of Supercomputing and Cloud e-Infrastructure Services

Six leading European supercomputing centers are harmonizing and federating their e-infrastructure services portfolio with the goal of supporting a variety of science and…

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

On 6G and Trustworthiness

Not only data but physical and virtual objects will be controlled with 6G. This requires addressing trustworthiness of the system and its services at an unprecedented…

Gerhard P. Fettweis and Holger Boche

Computing Applications

man in superhero suit on 6G background

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Internet of Production: Entering Phase Two of Industry 4.0

The Excellence Cluster "Internet of Production," started in 2019, aims at a new level of digital collaboration with data, models, and knowledge in production.…

Gertrude Kappel, Christian Brecher, Matthias Brockmann, and István Koren

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Privacy-Preserving AI for Future Networks

Traditional management solutions for telco networks are reaching their limits in dealing with today's complex ecosystem. Novel solutions are required to guarantee…

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Partnership on AI, Data, and Robotics

The AI, Data and Robotics Association was founded to strengthen European competitiveness, societal well-being, and environmental sustainability.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Hot topics Apr 1 2022

Toward a Broad AI

AI research and machine learning in particular aims at a new level of AI with considerably enhanced and broader capabilities for skill acquisition and problem solving.

Sepp Hochreiter

Computing Applications

AI initials

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

Energy Informatics: Key Elements for Tomorrow's Energy System

The transition of energy systems toward renewable sources has led to a strong need for essential contributions from the computer science community to maintain stability…

Hartmut Schmeck, Antonello Monti, and Veit Hagenmeyer

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region

The trustworthiness of AI systems must be planned, rather than an afterthought.

Stuart E. Middleton, Emmanuel Letouzé, Ali Hossaini, and Adriane Chapman

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

Recommender Systems Under European AI Regulations

With the EU Regulatory Framework for AI, the European Commission aims at introducing the first comprehensive legal framework on AI.

Tommaso Di Noia, Nava Tintarev, Panagiota Fatourou, and Markus Schedl

Computing Applications

doctor head mirror with AI initials

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

MobiGuide: Guiding Clinicians and Chronic Patients Anytime, Anywhere

The European MobiGuide project aimed to develop a generic architecture to support chronic patients and their clinicians.

Mor Peleg, Yuval Shahar, and Silvana Quaglini

Computing Applications

stethoscope worn by a smartphone

Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

European Leadership in Process Management

We describe process mining's European roots as well as developments in the field, and show how it differs from traditional process management and automation.

Wil Van Der Aalst

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Europe Region special section: Big trends Apr 1 2022

When Software Engineering Meets Quantum Computing

We present highlights of EU-level quantum computing initiatives, argue the need for quantum software engineering, and shed light on possible research directions.

Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue, and Rui Abreu

Computing Applications

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Practice Apr 1 2022

Federated Learning and Privacy

Building privacy-preserving systems for machine learning and data science on decentralized data.

Kallista Bonawitz, Peter Kairouz, Brendan Mcmahan, and Daniel Ramage

Security and Privacy

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2022

Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence as Pillars of Personalized Learning Models

Personalized learning models can cut student dropout rates, boost student success, improve the integration of online and on-site students, better support teachers in…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Apr 1 2022

Market Segmentation in the Emoji Era

A better understanding and use of unstructured data can improve customer loyalty and relationships for most organizations.

Jorge Fresneda, Jeremy Hui, and Chelsey Hill

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias ‘In the Wild’

The authors of "Cognitive Biases in Software Development" rightly highlight the need for situated studies that examine cognitive bias 'in the wild'…

Marian Petre

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2022

Cognitive Biases in Software Development

We conducted a two-part field study to examine the extent to which cognitive biases occur, the consequences of these biases on developer behavior, and the practices and…

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2022

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…

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Research highlights Apr 1 2022

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.

Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Preslav Nakov, and Min-Yen Kan

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Last byte Apr 1 2022

Beating the House

Ante up.

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

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