December 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 12

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Dec 1 2018

The peculiar property that makes public key cryptography interesting is that you must use one key to encrypt and the other to decrypt.

Vinton G. Cerf

Security and Privacy

Opinion Letters to the editor Dec 1 2018

Reclaim Internet Greatness

Vinton G. Cerf's "The Internet in the 21st Century" (Sept. 2018) highlighted many challenges facing today's Internet. The fundamental issue becomes what changes are warranted and who will be responsible for defining and administering them.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2018

Securing Agent 111, and the Job of Software Architect

John Arquilla describes the new state of cyberspying, while Yegor Bugayenko considers the importance of a software architect to development projects.

John Arquilla and Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Applications

News Dec 1 2018

Learning to See

Machine learning turns the spotlight on elusive viruses.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Dec 1 2018

Technology for the Deaf

Why aren't better assistive technologies available for those communicating using ASL?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Profession

News Dec 1 2018

AI Judges and Juries

Artificial intelligence is changing the legal industry.

Logan Kugler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion The profession of IT Dec 1 2018

Learning Machine Learning

A discussion of the rapidly evolving realm of machine learning.

Ted G. Lewis and Peter J. Denning

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Kode vicious Dec 1 2018

A Chance Gardener

Harvesting open source products and planting the next crop.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Point/counterpoint Dec 1 2018

Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How

Considering the difficult technical and sociological issues affecting the regulation of artificial intelligence research and applications.

Oren Etzioni

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Point/counterpoint Dec 1 2018

Counterpoint: Regulators Should Allow the Greatest Space for AI Innovation

Permissionless innovation should be the governing policy for AI technologies.

Andrea O'Sullivan and Adam Thierer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2018

Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction

Seeking to address a wider range of user requests toward task completion.

Ryen W. White

Computing Applications

Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction, illustration

Practice Dec 1 2018

How to Live in a Post-Meltdown and -Spectre World

Learn from the past to prepare for the next battle.

Security and Privacy

Practice Dec 1 2018

Why SRE Documents Matter

How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.

Shylaja Nukala and Vivek Rau

Computing Applications

Practice Dec 1 2018

How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It

Five strategies for pushing through.

Kate Matsudaira

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2018

What Motivates a Citizen to Take the Initiative in e-Participation?: The Case of a South Korean Parliamentary Hearing

Citizen-led initiatives via social media yield political influence, including even with a country's top political leaders.

Junyeong Lee and Jaylyn Jeonghyun Oh

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2018

Uncertainty in Current and Future Health Wearables

Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2018

A Century-Long Commitment to Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Society

A series of reports promises the general public a technologically accurate view of the state of AI and its societal implications.

Barbara J. Grosz and Peter Stone

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Commitment to Assessing AI and Its Impact, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2018

Designing Emotionally Sentient Agents

Emotionally sentient systems will enable computers to perform complex tasks more effectively, making better decisions and offering more productive services.

Daniel McDuff and Mary Czerwinski

Computing Applications

Designing Emotionally Sentient Agents, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2018

Search-based Program Synthesis

A promising, useful tool for future programming development environments.

Rajeev Alur, Rishabh Singh, Dana Fisman, and Armando Solar-Lezama

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Search-based Program Synthesis, illustration

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Node Replication Divides to Conquer

In "How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure," Calciu et al. show that a concurrent data structure can be built automatically and that its performance is actually competitive with state-of-the-art designs for a series of important workloads.

Tim Harris

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2018

How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure

We propose a method called Node Replication (NR) to implement any concurrent data structure.

Irina Calciu, Siddhartha Sen, Mahesh Balakrishnan, and Marcos K. Aguilera

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2018

Technical Perspective: WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution of the Web

"Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly," by Rossberg et al., gives an overview of the initial design of WebAssembly, a new low-level programming language for Web-based software.

Anders Møller

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2018

Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly

WebAssembly is the first mainstream language designed from the start with a formal semantics. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying formal techniques, but also that they lead to a remarkably clean and simple design.

Computing Applications

Opinion Last byte Dec 1 2018

Promoting Common Sense, Reality, Dependable Engineering

Peter G. Neumann traces a lifetime devoted to identifying computing risks.

Leah Hoffmann

Computing Applications

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