December 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 12

Features

Opinion Cerf's Up Dec 13 2023

The role of ACM members, as professionals in the computing realm, makes them candidates for the provision of expert testimony in both criminal and civil judicial proceedings.

Vinton G. Cerf

Society

Opinion Dec 14 2023

Comparing Chatbots Trained In Different Languages

Antony Chayka and Andrei Sukhov examine how training chatbots in English or Russian affects their responses.

Antony Chayka and Andrei Sukhov

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Antony Chayka of Samara University, and Andrei Sukhov of Sevastopol State University and Samara University

News Dec 1 2023

Tales of Topological Qubits

Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.

Chris Edwards

Systems and Networking

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News Dec 13 2023

Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive

A battle over “truth and who has access to it in the digital age.”

Esther Shein

Society

console servers labeled 'Internet Archive'

News Dec 13 2023

Revamping Python for an AI World

Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.

Neil Savage

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Opinion Dec 14 2023

Thus Spake ChatGPT

On the reliability of AI-based chatbots for science communication.

Subhabrata Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Dec 14 2023

Why Is the Current XAI Not Meeting the Expectations?

Seeking better explanations for how algorithmic decisions are made.

Alessio Malizia and Fabio Paternò

Data and Information

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Opinion Dec 14 2023

A Clash of Civilizations

The much-sought holy grail of more and faster innovation will come from integrating pipeline thinking and adoption thinking.

Peter J. Denning and Todd W. Lyons

Computing Profession

Opinion Dec 14 2023

Halfway Around the World

Learn the language, meet the people, eat the food.

George V. Neville-Neil

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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Opinion Dec 14 2023

A Strategy for Scaling Advanced Analytics

Key elements for scaling advanced analytics.

Mikael Berndtsson, Anna-Carin Jonsson, Magnus Carlsson, and Thomas Svahn

Data and Information

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Opinion Dec 14 2023

Five Ways Executives Misunderstand Technology

How executives might better understand technology.

Stephen Andriole

Computing Profession

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Opinion Dec 14 2023

There Was No ‘First AI Winter’

Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.

Thomas Haigh

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Practice Dec 14 2023

Pointers in Far Memory

Rethinking how data and computations should be organized.

Data and Information

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Practice Dec 14 2023

How Flexible Is CXL’s Memory Protection?

Replacing a sledgehammer with a scalpel.

Samuel W. Stark, A. Theodore Markettos, and Simon W. Moore

Data and Information

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Research and Advances Dec 14 2023

Data Analytics Anywhere and Everywhere

Mobile, ubiquitous, and immersive computing appear poised to transform visualization, data science, and data-driven decision making.

Niklas Elmqvist

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Dec 14 2023

Theoretical Analysis of Edit Distance Algorithms

To what extent have the techniques for theoretical analysis of edit distance algorithms achieved their goals?

Paul Medvedev

Theory

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Research and Advances Research Dec 14 2023

When Two Cameras Are a Crowd

Understanding and handling interference across multiple active cameras.

Jongho Lee, Mohit Gupta, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, and Suman Banerjee

Computing Applications

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Research Highlights December 2023 Dec 13 2023

Maximum Flow Through a Network: A Storied Problem and a Groundbreaking Solution

“Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow,” by Li Chen et al., comes within striking distance of answering the question: “Does maximum flow have a scalable algorithm?”

Shang-Hua Teng

Systems and Networking

Research Highlights Dec 13 2023

Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow

We present an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with m edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities in m1+o(1) time.

Systems and Networking

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Opinion Dec 13 2023

Ulterior Motives

2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements during her career.

Leah Hoffmann

Education

2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer of the University of British Columbia

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