January 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 1

Features

Opinion Editor's Letter Jan 1 2023

Four years have seen accelerating division and growing fissures driven by international geopolitics and increasing technology and trade restrictions. The world is at an inflection point. What should ACM do?

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Profession

Opinion Departments Jan 1 2023

How Not to Win a Tech War

For the U.S. to compete with China, the U.S. is using Chinese talent. Approximately 65% of doctoral students in computing in North America are international students. My estimate is that this pool is dominated by Chinese students.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

Careers Career Paths in Computing Jan 1 2023

A Computer Scientist with a Biologist’s Ambition: Advance Humanity

I became a computer science student without ever having seen a computer before.

Michelle Zhou

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

BLOG@CACM Jan 1 2023

Making AI Fair, and How to Use It

Marc Rotenberg looks at how an early AI study led to the 1974 Privacy Act, while Jeremy Roschelle considers different aspects of human-centric AI.

Marc Rotenberg and Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jan 1 2023

Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Architectures

The overhead of error correction presents a serious challenge to scaling up quantum computing and may produce unexpected winners.

Chris Edwards

Architecture and Hardware

sound waves on both sides of a quantum computer, illustration

News Jan 1 2023

The Outlook for Crypto

Can cryptocurrencies cut their environmental impact?

Neil Savage

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 1 2023

Making Traffic a Thing of the Past

New AI technologies are making it possible to autonomously reduce traffic.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

birdseye view of traffic on a roadway, illustration

News Jan 1 2023

In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 1931-2022

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. "was a statesman in the best sense of the word, as well as a great leader, a very kind man, and a fine engineer," said fellow ACM A.M. Turing Award winner and ACM Fellow Ivan Sutherland.

Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford

Computing Profession

News Jan 1 2023

Remembering Valérie Issarny

Computer scientist Valérie Issarny, a director of research at France's National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology and chair of the ACM Europe Council since October 2021, passed away November 12, 2022.

John Delaney

Computing Profession

Opinion Technology Strategy and Management Jan 1 2023

From Quantum Computing to Quantum Communications

Attempting to disentangle mechanical principles.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

Opinion Law and Technology Jan 1 2023

Getting a Handle on Handles

Navigating moniker management.

Alexandra J. Roberts

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Security Jan 1 2023

Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats?

Considering the conundrum of software updates.

Fabio Massacci and Giorgio di Tizio

Computing Applications

smartphone screen showing 'Update' text and icons

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2023

The End of Programming

The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

Matt Welsh

Computing Applications

hands on a keyboard with text "/end" in foreground, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2023

Are We Cobblers without Shoes?: Making Computer Science Data FAIR

In search of more efficient data sharing.

Natasha Noy and Carole Goble

Computing Profession

initials F, A, I, R, amid computer equipment, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2023

The AI Ethicist’s Dirty Hands Problem

Attempting to balance sometimes-conflicting interests.

Henrik Skaug Sætra, Mark Coeckelbergh, and John Danaher

Computing Applications

oversized hands and three people holding placards with person icons

Practice Jan 1 2023

Distributed Latency Profiling through Critical Path Tracing

CPT can provide actionable and precise latency analysis.

Brian Eaton, Jeff Stewart, Jon Tedesco, and N. Cihan Tas

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Practice Jan 1 2023

Research for Practice: Crash Consistency

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.

Ramnatthan Alagappan and Peter Alvaro

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Jan 1 2023

The Many Faces of Resilience

A review of network science and complexity theory as they apply to the ability of systems to resist stress and recover from faults.

Ted G. Lewis

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Jan 1 2023

ACE: Toward Application-Centric, Edge-Cloud, Collaborative Intelligence

Constructing a unified platform for the scalable, reliable, robust, and efficient development and deployment of ECCI applications.

Architecture and Hardware

bright light behind a row of computer servers, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Jan 1 2023

Democratizing Domain-Specific Computing

Creating a programming environment and compilation flow that empowers programmers to create their own DSAs efficiently and affordably on FPGAs.

Architecture and Hardware

FPGA initials on top of a 3D block of circuitry

Research and Advances Review Articles Jan 1 2023

A Linearizability-based Hierarchy for Concurrent Specifications

Two linearizability-style correctness conditions that can be used to argue safety properties of progressively more concurrent behaviors of objects.

Armando Castañeda, Sergio Rajsbaum, and Michel Raynal

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research Highlights Jan 1 2023

Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias

"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded to the publication of the groundbreaking 2018 "Gender Shades" study.

Vincent Conitzer, Gillian K. Hadfield, and Shannon Vallor

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research Highlights Jan 1 2023

Actionable Auditing Revisited: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products

This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial analysis models.

Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini

Computing Profession

Opinion Last Byte Jan 1 2023

Maximal Cocktails

Poring over possible mixtures.

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

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