January 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 1

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Jan 1 2022

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.

Andrew A. Chien

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Departments Jan 1 2022

Will AI Destroy Education?

Technology can lead to improved education, but only if we move slow and do not break things.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Careers Career paths in computing Jan 1 2022

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?

Peter M. Small

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Jan 1 2022

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.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

News Jan 1 2022

Shrinking Artificial Intelligence

Energy concerns push AI optimizations to the edge.

Chris Edwards

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 1 2022

Converting Laws to Programs

In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.

Esther Shein

Computing Applications

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News Jan 1 2022

Monetizing Your Personal Data

What is your private data worth, to you and to the companies willing to pay you for it?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Technology strategy and management Jan 1 2022

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.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

Opinion Law and technology Jan 1 2022

Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination

Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.

Pauline T. Kim

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Security Jan 1 2022

The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.

Brian LaMacchia

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2022

The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code

Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.

Vincent J. Hellendoorn and Anand Ashok Sawant

Computing Applications

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Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2022

Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders

Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.

Olga Fink, Torbjørn Netland, and Stefan Feuerriegelc

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2022

Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic

Turning believers into nonbelievers.

Computing Applications

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Practice Jan 1 2022

Declarative Machine Learning Systems

The future of machine learning will depend on it being in the hands of the rest of us.

Piero Molino and Christopher Ré

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Practice Jan 1 2022

Static Analysis

The fundamental challenge of software engineering is one of complexity.

Patrick Thomson

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2022

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.

Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty, and Samarjit Chakraborty

Computing Applications

COVID symbols over commuters on subway platform, looking at their phones

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2022

Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.

Gwanhoo Lee and Jaeho Kim

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Jan 1 2022

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.

Lance Fortnow

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

direction sign in front of two open doors marked P and NP respectively

Research and Advances Review articles Jan 1 2022

Neural Software Analysis

Developer tools that use a neural machine learning model to make predictions about previously unseen code.

Michael Pradel and Satish Chandra

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2022

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.

Frank Dellaert

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

neural radiance field scene representation

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2022

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…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2022

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.

Tiago Guerreiro

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Jan 1 2022

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…

Mingming Fan, Zhen Li, and Franklin Mingzhe Li

Computing Applications

Opinion Last byte Jan 1 2022

Orbit Design

When should the satellites fly?

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

Infrared Astronomical Satellite over Earth

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