Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands!
How did the technology that we considered “cool” just a decade ago become an assault weapon used to hurt, traumatize, and even kill vulnerable people?
January 2024 - Vol. 67 No. 1
Features
From Eye Tracking to AI-Powered Learning: A Journey through Computing and Manufacturing
My journey through the intertwining worlds of computing and manufacturing began, unexpectedly, in the halls of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Protecting Life-Saving Medical Devices From Cyberattack
Alex Vakulov ponders how to protect the Internet of Medical Things.
Generative artificial intelligence and the law: there is no turning back.
ACM Publications Finances for 2022
Striving for Balance between Mission, Sustainability, and Growth
Beyond the Editorial Analogy: The Future of the First Amendment on the Internet
Can the government regulate how social media companies moderate their platforms?
The Perils of Leveraging Evil Digital Twins as Security-Enhancing Enablers
Seeking more secure and effective digital representations.
Giving individuals more control of their personal data.
Rebuttal How-To: Strategies, Tactics, and the Big Picture in Research
Demystifying rebuttal writing.
Achievement in Microarchitecture
David Papworth, a 30-year veteran of Intel, on what led to the P6 microprocessor and how that changed the microarchitectural paradigm.
Confidential Computing: Elevating Cloud Security and Privacy
Working toward a more secure and innovative future.
Hardware VM Isolation in the Cloud
Enabling confidential computing with AMD SEV-SNP technology.
Creating the First Confidential GPUs
The team at NVIDIA brings confidentiality and integrity to user code and data for accelerated computing.
Confidential computing enables users to authenticate code running in TEEs, but users also need evidence this code is trustworthy.
10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning
Understanding how human memory and learning works, the differences between beginners and experts, and practical steps developers can take to improve their learning, training, and recruitment.
What Should We Do when Our Ideas of Fairness Conflict?
Standards for fair decision making could help us develop algorithms that comport with our consensus views; however, algorithmic fairness has its limits.
On Specifying for Trustworthiness
As autonomous systems increasingly become part of our lives, it is crucial to foster trust between humans and these systems, to ensure positive outcomes and mitigate harmful ones.
Shortcut Learning of Large Language Models in Natural Language Understanding
Shortcuts often hinder the robustness of large language models.
The User as a Key Ingredient in AAC Design
"Nonverbal Communication through Expressive Objects," by Stephanie Valencia et al., describes the design of a physical object to support communication and focuses on the active involvement of an expert Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) user as a member of the design team.
Nonverbal Communication through Expressive Objects
In this work, we work closely with an AAC user to understand how motion through a physical expressive object can support their communication.
