July 2019 - Vol. 62 No. 7

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Jul 1 2019

Halfway Round!: Growing the Regional Special Sections

In November 2017, we launched Communications' Regional Special Sections. A year and half later, I'm happy to report we're halfway around the world and gaining momentum!

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Profession

Opinion Cerf's up Jul 1 2019

Back to the Future, Part II

This year is the 50th anniversary of the activation of the Arpanet project.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

Opinion Departments Jul 1 2019

To Serve Humanity

We are in the midst a profound transformation of our society, with computer science and its artifacts as a major driver of change.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Jul 1 2019

Bringing More Women, Immigrants, to Computer Science

Gloria Townsend on encouraging women to pursue CS, and Sheldon Waite on supporting immigrants to fill STEM jobs.

Gloria Townsend and Sheldon Waite

Computing Profession

News Jul 1 2019

Good Algorithms Make Good Neighbors

Many computer scientists doubted ad hoc methods would ever give way to a more general approach to finding nearest neighbors. They were wrong.

Erica Klarreich

Systems and Networking

approximate nearest neighbor model, illustration

News Jul 1 2019

The Edge of Computational Photography

Smartphones and consumer cameras increasingly give professional photographers a run for their money.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jul 1 2019

Protecting the 2020 Census

A new framework is being used to secure the 2020 U.S. Census from database reconstruction attacks.

Logan Kugler

Computing Profession

U.S. Census 2020 on American flag background

Opinion Legally speaking Jul 1 2019

API Copyrights Revisited

Deliberating on the main arguments in recent sets of briefs filed in support of Google's U.S. Supreme Court petition.

Pamela Samuelson

Computing Profession

Opinion Computing ethics Jul 1 2019

Who Benefits?

Considering the case of smart cities.

Susan J. Winter

Computing Profession

Opinion Broadening participation Jul 1 2019

A New Labor Market for People with ‘Coolabilities’

How the unique perspective and enhanced strengths accompanying disabilities can benefit the workforce.

David Nordfors, Chally Grundwag, and V. R. Ferose

Computing Profession

business figures with puzzle pieces, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint Jul 1 2019

GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful

Seeking to improve rankings by utilizing more objective data and meaningful metrics.

Computing Profession

Practice Jul 1 2019

Extract, Shoehorn, and Load

Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.

Pat Helland

Computing Applications

Practice Jul 1 2019

The Top 10 Things Executives Should Know About Software

Software acumen is the new norm.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Computing Profession

Practice Jul 1 2019

Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?

A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jul 1 2019

On The Hourglass Model

Used in the design of the Internet and Unix, the layered services of the hourglass model have enabled viral adoption and deployment scalability.

Micah Beck

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jul 1 2019

Ways of Thinking in Informatics

An innovative, entry-level informatics course enables students to ponder CS problems in different ways, from different perspectives.

Christopher Frauenberger and Peter Purgathofer

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Review articles Jul 1 2019

Internet of Things Search Engine

Tracing the complicated yet still relatively unripe area of the Internet of Things search engine—from concepts, to classification, and open issues.

Computing Applications

Internet-of-Things Search Engine, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Jul 1 2019

Unifying Logical and Statistical AI with Markov Logic

Markov logic can be used as a general framework for joining logical and statistical AI.

Pedro Domingos and Daniel Lowd

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Jul 1 2019

Technical Perspective: Do You Know Why Your Web Pages Load Faster?

"Taking a Long Look at QUIC," by Arash Molavi Kakhki et al., is a bold attempt to unearth the reasons why QUIC works better than TCP.

Costin Raiciu

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Jul 1 2019

Taking a Long Look at QUIC: An Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols

There is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols.

Computing Profession

Opinion Last byte Jul 1 2019

Opioid Games

There are two sources of illegal opioids: legitimately manufactured ones and criminally manufactured ones. This column is concerned with the criminally manufactured opioid pills.

Dennis Shasha

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