April 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 4

Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves

BLOG@CACM Apr 1 2023

Gary Marcus on the systems that "pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society."

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery

News Apr 1 2023

Finding novel materials needs more than pure machine learning.

Don Monroe

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News Apr 1 2023

AI Rewrites Coding

Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.

Samuel Greengard

. . . And the Computer Plays Along

News Apr 1 2023

Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.

Esther Shein

ACM Publications Finances for 2021

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News ACM Publications Finances Apr 1 2023

One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its publications and the services it provides to the community.

Wendy Hall, Divesh Srivastava, and Scott E. Delman

Contracting for Artificial Intelligence

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Opinion Technology Strategy and Management Apr 1 2023

Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.

Mari Sako

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Opinion Kode Vicious Apr 1 2023

All Sliders to the Right

Hardware overkill.

George V. Neville-Neil

Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech

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Opinion Economic and Business Dimensions Apr 1 2023

Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.

Marshall Van Alstyne, Michael D. Smith, and Herbert Lin

Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?

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Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2023

Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.

David Ott, Kenny Paterson, and Dennis Moreau

Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience

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Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2023

Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.

Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly

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Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2023

A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.

David A. Patterson

OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization

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Practice Apr 1 2023

Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.

Jorge A. Navas and Ashish Gehani

OSS Supply-Chain Security: What Will It Take?

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Practice Apr 1 2023

A discussion with Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, and Chris McCubbin

Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, Chris McCubbin, and George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Profession

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Research and Advances Contributed Articles Apr 1 2023

Protecting Autonomous Cars from Phantom Attacks

Enabling object detectors to better distinguish between real and fake objects in semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.

Eight Reasons to Prioritize Brain-Computer Interface Cybersecurity

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Research and Advances Contributed Articles Apr 1 2023

Defining and analyzing the impact of cyberattacks on novel generations of BCIs.

Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, and Gregorio Martínez Pérez

Mechanical Mathematicians

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Research and Advances Review Articles Apr 1 2023

A new generation of automatic theorem provers eliminate bugs in software and mathematics.

Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks

Research Highlights Apr 1 2023

"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network behave like a single wire.

Luca Mottola

Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs

Research Highlights Apr 1 2023

We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.

Jonathan Oostvogels, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, and Danny Hughes

Cooperation in the Commons

Opinion Last Byte Apr 1 2023

Seeking a solution to a bovine calculation situation.

Dennis Shasha