December 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 12

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Dec 1 2022

I am certainly no philosopher, but as I observe the apparent erosion of agreement on factual evidence in our society. Somewhere along the line, critical thinking must be given the stature it deserves.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2022

Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?

Carlos Baquero on whether using artificial intelligence provides an unfair advantage to writers.

Carlos Baquero

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Dec 1 2022

Quantum Computers and the Universe

Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

quantum computing visual representation, illustration

News Dec 1 2022

Swarm Robotics Moves Forward

Drawing inspiration from nature to enable complex behaviors.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

News Dec 1 2022

Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies

Digital technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holograms allow museums and other institutions to preserve historical events and tell stories in an engaging way.

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

demonstration of the Skin & Bones app on a tablet computer

Opinion The profession of IT Dec 1 2022

The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence

The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.

Peter J. Denning and John Arquilla

Computing Applications

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Opinion Kode Vicious Dec 1 2022

The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project

Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Profession

one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2022

Can Universities Combat the ‘Wrong Kind of AI’?

Seeking an artificial intelligence reset.

Devdatt Dubhashi

Computing Applications

instructor and two students in a university research laboratory

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2022

Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3

How distributed technologies could return more control to users.

Alex Pentland

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2022

Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.

Computing Profession

joined hands of various colors encircling the globe, illustration

Practice Dec 1 2022

FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data

A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

ribbons with incorporated light beams, illustration

Practice Dec 1 2022

CSRB’s Opus One

Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.

Poul-Henning Kamp

Architecture and Hardware

XKCD illustration of a modern digital infrastructure

Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2022

Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality among U.S. Computing Faculty

A study of the intersections of gender, race, socioeconomic status, prestige, and subfield structure in computing.

Computing Profession

college jacket patch featuring gender symbols and an unequal sign

Research and Advances Contributed articles Dec 1 2022

Producing Competent HPC Graduates

Employers seek recruits who can apply the knowledge, skill, and culture they acquire in college to solve problems as soon as they enter the workforce.

Juan Chen, Sheikh Ghafoor, and John Impagliazzo

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

woman pointing to a computer display of a seated male

Research and Advances Turing lecture Dec 1 2022

The Evolution of Mathematical Software

Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.

Jack J. Dongarra

Architecture and Hardware

code and colored bars on a computer display

Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2022

How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?

A framework for aiding future Java mutation tool comparisons.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Review articles Dec 1 2022

Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography

Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.

Ewa Nowara, Daniel McDuff, Ashutosh Sabharwal, and Ashok Veeraraghavan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2022

Technical Perspective: The ‘Art’ of Automatic Benchmark Extraction

"DIAMetrics," by Shaleen Deep et al., describes a versatile framework from Google for automatic extraction of benchmarks and their distributed execution and performance monitoring.

Peter Boncz

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Dec 1 2022

DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale

This paper introduces DIAMetrics: a novel framework for end-to-end benchmarking and performance monitoring of query engines.

Computing Applications

Opinion Last byte Dec 1 2022

Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI

Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.

Leah Hoffmann

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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