Opinion Editor's letter
Is the Global Computing Community Irrevocably Divided?
The powerful forces pulling the global computing community apart have broad implications on all seven continents, not just in the U.S. and China.
January 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 1
Features
Opinion Departments
Technology can lead to improved education, but only if we move slow and do not break things.
Careers Career paths in computing
How Computing Empowered Me to Tackle Big Problems in Medicine
What have I learned that might be helpful in preparing aspiring computer scientists to lead impactful and meaningful professional lives?
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Is Higher Education an Engine of Opportunity, or a Perpetuator of Privilege?
Mark Guzdial considers the goals of computer science education and the role(s) of educators within that.
In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
What is your private data worth, to you and to the companies willing to pay you for it?
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Epic Versus Apple and the Future of App Stores
Seeking a more equitable way to govern and distribute the revenues generated by App-store marketplaces.
Opinion Law and technology
Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
Opinion Security
The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
Opinion Viewpoint
The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
Opinion Viewpoint
Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
Opinion Viewpoint
Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic
Turning believers into nonbelievers.
Declarative Machine Learning Systems
The future of machine learning will depend on it being in the hands of the rest of us.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
A look through the lens of neighbor discovery protocols reveals significant potential to improve electronic contact-tracing accuracy.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
Advances in algorithms, machine learning, and hardware can help tackle many NP-hard problems once thought impossible.
Research and Advances Review articles
Developer tools that use a neural machine learning model to make predictions about previously unseen code.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Neural Radiance Fields Explode on the Scene
Neural volume rendering exploded onto the scene in 2020, triggered by "NeRF," the impressive paper by Ben Mildenhall et al., on Neural Radiance Fields.
Research and Advances Research highlights
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Eyelid Gestures Enhance Mobile Interaction
"Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments," by Mingming Fan et al., addresses the accessibility of mobile devices to people with motor impairments.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments
We present an algorithm to detect nine eyelid gestures on smartphones in real time and evaluate it with 12 able-bodied people and four people with severe motor impairments in two studies.
