August 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 8

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Aug 1 2023

GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO2

It has become clear that AI's carbon emissions, lifecycle carbon, and other negative environmental impacts are growing explosively.

Andrew A. Chien

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Cerf's Up Aug 1 2023

Large Language Models

"Write a 700-word obituary for Vint Cerf." I tried this "prompting" text on a publicly available chatbot. The output? There was a considerable degree…

Vinton G. Cerf

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2023

Teaching the FATE Community about Privacy

Jason Hong finds many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy.

Jason I. Hong

Education

News Aug 1 2023

Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow

Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."

Don Monroe

Computing Applications

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News Aug 1 2023

3D Modeling Draws on AI

Artificial intelligence can unlock speed and quality improvements in three-dimensional graphics.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Aug 1 2023

The Carbon Footprint of Artificial Intelligence

Looking for ways to cut the release of greenhouse gases attributable to AI use, at a time that usage is very likely to grow.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Computing Ethics Aug 1 2023

Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots

Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.

Computing Profession

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Opinion Education Aug 1 2023

Improving Computing Education Research through Valuing Design

Exploring alternatives to existing research systems and methods.

R. Benjamin Shapiro, Kayla DesPortes, and Betsy DiSalvo

Computing Profession

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Opinion Kode Vicious Aug 1 2023

The Human Touch

There is no substitute for good, direct, honest training.

George Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2023

SI and Binary Prefixes: Clearing the Confusion

Considering the emergence of non-standard acceptance of SI prefixes.

Hakan Temiz

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2023

For a More Transparent Governance of Open Source

Seeking the best governance models for FOSS projects.

Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo and Jordi Cabot

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2023

Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency

Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.

Wesley Sheh and Joel Nishimura

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2023

AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation

Trust and trustworthiness are central to how ethics helps society survive and thrive.

Benjamin Kuipers

Computing Profession

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Practice Aug 1 2023

Sharpening Your Tools

Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s.

Simson Garfinkel and Jon Stewart

Computing Applications

Practice Aug 1 2023

More Than Just Algorithms

A discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Aug 1 2023

A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery

Enabling researchers to leverage systems to overcome the limits of human cognitive capacity.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Aug 1 2023

A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy

A data-driven, follow-the-money approach to characterize the ransomware ecosystem uncovers two parallel ransomware criminal markets: commodity ransomware and Ransomware…

Kris Oosthoek, Jack Cable, and Georgios Smaragdakis

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Review Articles Aug 1 2023

The Principles of Data-Centric AI

Uniting data-centric perspectives and concepts to trace the foundations of DCAI.

Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Ali Memariani, and Shion Guha

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Aug 1 2023

Technical Perspective: Can We Uncover Private Backbone Infrastructures?

In "A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers," Salamatian et al. assemble techniques from the two broad strategies…

Sara Alouf

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Aug 1 2023

A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers

We present a new empirical approach for elucidating connectivity in privately owned and operated backbone networks.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Aug 1 2023

Technical Perspective: Pandemics, Remote Work, and Accessibility

"Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship," by Kelly Mack et al., provides guidance on how to make remote…

John Richards

Computing Profession

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Aug 1 2023

Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship

Interns, full-time members, and affiliates of a Microsoft Research team focused on accessibility report on the experiences of virtual interns in 2020 navigating the…

Computing Profession

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Opinion Last Byte Aug 1 2023

L-Space and Large Language Models

Design fiction is an approach to understanding and speculating about alternate futures. This column is a piece of such speculative fiction, set in 2025.

Jofish Kaye

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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