January 2017 - Vol. 60 No. 1

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Features

Opinion

Information and Misinformation on the Internet

The Internet influenced the decisions of voters in both the June 2016 U.K. referendum on European Union membership and the November 2016 U.S. elections. The disturbing aspect of these is the quantity of poor-quality content, the production of deliberately false information, and the reinforcement of bad information through the social media.
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How We Teach CS2All, and What to Do About Database Decay

Valerie Barr considers how to make computer science education meaningful and relevant to all, while a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory offers strategies to counter database decay.
Research and Advances Research highlights

Eulerian Video Magnification and Analysis

We present Eulerian Video Magnification, a computational technique for visualizing subtle color and motion variations in ordinary videos by making the variations larger.
Research and Advances Research highlights

HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures

In this Research Highlight, we demonstrate the success of HACC on two very different machines, the CPU/GPU system Titan and the BG/Q systems Sequoia and Mira, attaining very high levels of scalable performance.
Opinion Last byte

Open Field Tic-Tac-Toe

In the spirit of Gomoku, two people play a version of the classic paper-and-pencil game tic-tac-toe but on an infinite checkerboard. In it, a player wins by getting four pieces in a row — vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

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