January 2019 - Vol. 62 No. 1

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Jan 1 2019

Open Collaboration in an Age of Distrust

We are manifestly in a new era of international relations—"An Age of Distrust"—where the trend toward increased trade and integration has stalled, if not reversed.

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Applications

Opinion Cerf's up Jan 1 2019

A People-Centered Economy

Innovation for Jobs (i4j.info) recently published a book describing a new, people-centered view of work. Rather than organizing work around tasks, the idea is to organize work around people and their skills.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

Opinion Departments Jan 1 2019

Are We Having An Ethical Crisis in Computing?

The computing field seems to be going through another image crisis these days. Many view this as an ethical crisis. I am dubious of the diagnosis.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Jan 1 2019

Answering Children’s Questions About Computers

Judy Robertson addresses the disconnect between what children are taught about computers and what they actually wish to know.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

News Jan 1 2019

Quantum Leap

A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 1 2019

Hidden Messages Fool AI

Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.

Chris Edwards

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 1 2019

Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?

Three-dimensional scanning can be used to protect or rebuild historic structures, but who owns that digital data?

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Law and technology Jan 1 2019

Illegal Pricing Algorithms

Examining the potential legal consequences of using pricing algorithms.

Michal S. Gal

Computing Applications

Opinion Technology strategy and management Jan 1 2019

CRISPR: An Emerging Platform for Gene Editing

Considering a potential platform candidate in the evolving realm of gene-editing technologies research.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

Opinion Historical reflections Jan 1 2019

Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo

Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.

Thomas Haigh

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2019

UCF’s 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision

A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.

Niels Da Vitoria Lobo and Mubarak A. Shah

Computing Profession

2018 UCF Computer Vision group participants

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2019

Modeling in Engineering and Science

Understanding behavior by building models.

Edward A. Lee

Computing Applications

Practice Jan 1 2019

Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel

Save time by sharing and reusing build and test output.

Alpha Lam

Computing Applications

Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel, illustration

Practice Jan 1 2019

Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age

Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.

Jessie Frazelle

Computing Applications

Practice Jan 1 2019

SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2019

Autonomous Tools and Design: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning

In addition to having a detailed understanding of the artifacts they intend to create, designers need to guide the software tools they use.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2019

Framework for Implementing a Big Data Ecosystem in Organizations

Featuring the various dimensions of data management, it guides organizations through implementation fundamentals.

Sergio Orenga-Roglá and Ricardo Chalmeta

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2019

The Church-Turing Thesis: Logical Limit or Breachable Barrier?

In its original form, the Church-Turing thesis concerned computation as Alan Turing and Alonzo Church used the term in 1936—human computation.

B. Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Review articles Jan 1 2019

Intelligent Systems for Geosciences: An Essential Research Agenda

A research agenda for intelligent systems that will result in fundamental new capabilities for understanding the Earth system.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Review articles Jan 1 2019

Deception, Identity, and Security: The Game Theory of Sybil Attacks

Classical mathematical game theory helps to evolve the emerging logic of identity in the cyber world.

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2019

Technical Perspective: Photorealistic Facial Digitization and Manipulation

If facial performance capture is possible for conventional RGB videos in real time, then believable facial expressions can be transferred effortlessly from one person to another in a live-action scenario. This capability is demonstrated by the system of Thies et al. detailed in "Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos."

Hao Li

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2019

Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos

Face2Face is an approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2019

Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation

"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account when choosing cryptographic parameters.

Dan Boneh

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2019

Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.

Computing Profession

Opinion Last byte Jan 1 2019

Randomized Anti-Counterfeiting

Consumers and pharmaceutical companies have at least one interest in common: Neither wants the consumer to consume counterfeit drugs.

Dennis Shasha

Systems and Networking

numbered pills in a bottle, illustration

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