August 2021 - Vol. 64 No. 8

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Aug 1 2021

Can we discover language in the vocalizations and/or gestures of non-human species? Within that question lies another: whether rich machine learning methods can demonstrate that interspecies communication is possible.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

Opinion Letters to the editor Aug 1 2021

Tales of Two Turings

In the June issue of Communications, Editor-in-Chief Andrew A. Chien suggested that ACM consider bestowing two A.M. Turing Awards per year. Reader reactions were thoughtful and provocative.

CACM Staff

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2021

A Journal for Interdisciplinary Data Science Education

Orit Hazzan and Koby Mike on the need for a journal to cover data science education exclusively.

Orit Hazzan and Koby Mike

Data and Information

News Aug 1 2021

Better Security Through Obfuscation

The quest to find greater security through obscurity.

Chris Edwards

Computing Applications

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News Aug 1 2021

Fixing the Internet

Internet security was once based on trust and needs to be updated.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Profession

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News Aug 1 2021

The Unionization of Technology Companies

New unions could change how tech giants engage with their employees.

Logan Kugler

Computing Profession

Google employees at walkout in November 2018

News Aug 1 2021

Upholding ACM’s Principles

Repeated ethical violations ends with membership revocation and ban.

Marty J. Wolf, Don Gotterbarn, and Michael Kirkpatrick

Computing Profession

Opinion Economic and business dimensions Aug 1 2021

A European Union Approach to Regulating Big Tech

Considering a new regulatory proposal for addressing digital market competition concerns.

Georgios Petropoulos

Computing Applications

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Opinion Education Aug 1 2021

What Does Saying That ‘Programming Is Hard’ Really Say, and About Whom?

Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.

Brett A. Becker

Computing Profession

Opinion Kode Vicious Aug 1 2021

In Praise of the Disassembler

There is much to be learned from the lower-level details of hardware.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2021

Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice

Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.

Ben Shneiderman

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2021

Science Needs to Engage With Society: Some Lessons From COVID-19

Recent experiences toward communicating science to the general public.

Carlo Ghezzi

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2021

The Domestic Computer Science Graduate Students Are There, We Just Need to Recruit Them

Proven practices to recruit domestic computer science graduate students.

David Whalley, Xin Yuan, and Xiuwen Liu

Computing Profession

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Practice Aug 1 2021

Biases in AI Systems

A survey for practitioners.

Ramya Srinivasan and Ajay Chander

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Practice Aug 1 2021

WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform

What was once a way to bring audio and video to the Web has expanded into more use cases than we could ever imagine.

Niklas Blum, Serge Lachapelle, and Harald Alvestrand

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2021

The Dogged Pursuit of Bug-Free C Programs: The Frama-C Software Analysis Platform

A panoramic view of a popular platform for C program analysis and verification.

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2021

Unveiling Unexpected Training Data in Internet Video

Using clever video curation and processing practices to extract video training signals automatically.

Tali Dekel and Noah Snavely

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2021

Multimedia Data Delivery Based on IoT Clouds

A method for reducing delivery delays for multimedia data produced by the Internet of Things.

Xiaonan Wang and Xingwei Wang

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Review articles Aug 1 2021

Scaling Up Chatbots for Corporate Service Delivery Systems

A future-state architectural strategy designed to support chatbot integration with service delivery systems.

Alistair Barros, Renuka Sindhgatta, and Alireza Nili

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Review articles Aug 1 2021

PL and HCI: Better Together

Collaborations between two communities have unearthed a sweet spot for future programming efforts.

Sarah E. Chasins, Elena L. Glassman, and Joshua Sunshine

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2021

Technical Perspective: The Quest for Optimal Multi-Item Auctions

"Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning," by Paul Dütting et al., contributes a very interesting and forward-looking new take on the optimal multi-item mechanism computational challenge, initiating the use of deep learning for mechanism design.

Constantinos Daskalakis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2021

Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning

We overview recent research results that show how tools from deep learning are shaping up to become a powerful tool for the automated design of near-optimal auctions.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2021

Technical Perspective: eBP Rides the Third Wave of Mobile Health

The automated blood pressure wearable system described in "eBP," by Nam Bui et al., is a sterling example of the third wave of mobile health tech to fill the preventative care gap.

Josiah D. Hester

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2021

eBP: An Ear-Worn Device for Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring

We developed eBP to measure blood pressure from inside a user's ear aiming to minimize the measurement's impact on normal activities while maximizing its comfort level.

Computing Applications

Opinion Last byte Aug 1 2021

Agent Algorithm

Crime-solving computer plays by its own rules.

Brian Clegg

Computing Applications

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