As my tenure as ACM president ends, I find myself reflecting on the past two years.
June 2016 - Vol. 59 No. 6
Features
There is a rhythm in the affairs of the Association for Computing Machinery and June marks our annual celebration of award recipients and the biennial election of new officers.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
No Backdoor Required or Expected
I was disappointed by Eugene H. Spafford's "The Strength of Encryption" (Mar. 2016) which conflated law enforcement requests for access to the contents of specific smartphones with the prospect of the government requiring backdoors through which any device could be penetrated.
The Solution to AI, What Real Researchers Do, and Expectations For CS Classrooms
John Langford on AlphaGo, Bertrand Meyer on Research as Research, and Mark Guzdial on correlating CS classes with laboratory results.
40 years ago, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman introduced the public key cryptography used to secure today's online transactions.
What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
What’s Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
Opinion Inside risks
The Risks of Self-Auditing Systems
Unforeseen problems can result from the absence of impartial independent evaluations.
Opinion Kode Vicious
A single cache miss is more expensive than many instructions.
Opinion The profession of IT
Making innovations happen is surprisingly easy, satisfying, and rewarding if you start small and build up.
News Interview
ACM Fellow Professor Yale Patt reflects on his career in industry and academia.
Opinion Viewpoint
Computer Science Should Stay Young
Seeking to improve computer science publication culture while retaining the best aspects of the conference and journal publication processes.
Opinion Viewpoint
Privacy Is Dead, Long Live Privacy
Protecting social norms as confidentiality wanes.
Opinion Viewpoint
A teenager explores ways to attract girls into the magical world of computer science.
Nine Things I Didn’t Know I Would Learn Being an Engineer Manager
Many of the skills aren't technical at all.
This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.
Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants
Farsighted physicists of yore were danged smart!
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Human-centered design can make application programming interfaces easier for developers to use.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs
Computers broadcast their secrets via inadvertent physical emanations that are easily measured and exploited.
Research and Advances Review articles
Randnla: Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Randomization offers new benefits for large-scale linear algebra computations.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Veritesting Tackles Path-Explosion Problem
"Enhancing Symbolic Execution with Veritesting" by Avgerinos et al. proposes an effective technique called veritesting that addresses the scalability limitations of path merging in symbolic execution.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Enhancing Symbolic Execution with Veritesting
In this article, we present a new technique for generating formulas called veritesting that alternates between static symbolic execution (SSE) and dynamic symbolic execution (DSE).
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Computing with the Crowd
What kinds of problems can be solved with combined human and machine computation? "AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation," by Barowy et al., provides the first steps toward answering this question.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Automan: A Platform For Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation
We introduce AutoMan, the first fully automatic crowdprogramming system.
Opinion Last byte
Q&A: Finding New Directions in Cryptography
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on their meeting, their research, and the results that billions use every day.
