August 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 8

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Aug 1 2022

ACM has the responsibility to fulfill its mission to the fullest, not just for the sake of computing professionals but for society at large.

Yannis Ioannidis

Computing Profession

Opinion Cerf's up Aug 1 2022

Color Blind Accessibility Manifesto

Designing experiences from an accessibility and inclusion perspective significantly expands creative possibilities and creates better solutions for everyone.

Federico Monaco

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2022

Advancing in the Technical Hierarchy

Doug Meil considers the steps to becoming a technical leader.

Doug Meil

Computing Profession

News Aug 1 2022

Formalizing Fairness

Algorithmic fairness aims to remedy issues stemming from algorithmic bias.

Marina Krakovsky

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Aug 1 2022

Crossing the Uncanny Valley

The "uncanny valley effect" may be holding back the field of robotics.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

News Aug 1 2022

Neurotechnology and the Law

How closely should implants be regulated?

Esther Shein

Architecture and Hardware

computer chip embedded into a human brain, illustration

Opinion Education Aug 1 2022

Why Universities Must Resist GPA-based Enrollment Caps in the Face of Surging Enrollments

Considering the challenges for universities to adapt their business models to changing student demands.

Carla E. Brodley

Computing Profession

Opinion Kode Vicious Aug 1 2022

When Should a Black Box Be Transparent?

When is a replacement not a replacement?

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

black cube surrounded by other colored cubes, illustration

News Interview Aug 1 2022

An Interview with Dana Scott

ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.

Len Shustek

Computing Applications

ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2022

Transforming Science through Cyberinfrastructure

NSF's vision for the U.S. cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for science and engineering in the 21st century.

Manish Parashar, Amy Friedlander, Erwin Gianchandani, and Margaret Martonosi

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2022

Computational Thinking in the Era of Data Science

Incorporating data thinking into computer science education.

Koby Mike, Noa Ragonis, Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, and Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

overlapping colored word clouds, illustration

Practice Aug 1 2022

FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware

Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.

Michael Mattioli

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Aug 1 2022

Interpretable Machine Learning: Moving from Mythos to Diagnostics

A path forward for the ML community to address a stark disconnect.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

drafting tools, blueprints, and a pair of glasses on a desktop

Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2022

Advances in the Quantum Internet

A deep dive into the quantum Internet's potential to transform and disrupt.

Laszlo Gyongyosi and Sandor Imre

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Aug 1 2022

The Dawn of Crowdfarms

Some small companies are making crowdwork part of their formal business via teams that can complete multifaceted, complex tasks requiring specialized expertise.

Computing Applications

group looking together at same computer displays

Research and Advances Review articles Aug 1 2022

The Seattle Report on Database Research

Every five years, a group of the leading database researchers meet to reflect on their community's impact on the computing industry as well as examine current research challenges.

Computing Applications

database stacks marked with descriptive text

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?

In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair data structures.

Qin Zhang

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2022

Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness

We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2022

Technical Perspective: hXDP: Light and Efficient Packet Processing Offload

In "hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs," the authors offer an interesting solution to bridging the performance gap between the CPU and the home network.

Noa Zilberman

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Aug 1 2022

hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs

We present hXDP, a solution to run on FPGAs software packet processing tasks described with the eBPF technology and targeting the Linux's eXpress Data Path.

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Last byte Aug 1 2022

The Luce Goose

A space-traveling bail-bond agent and the ship's resourceful AI chase fugitives across the galaxy.

E. C. Logan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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