June 2019 - Vol. 62 No. 6

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Jun 1 2019

The Turing Award is one of a suite of professional honors ACM bestows annually to recognize technical achievements that have made significant contributions to our field.

Cherri M. Pancake

Computing Profession

Opinion Cerf's up Jun 1 2019

Back to the Future

We have come a long way since the 1983 activation of the Internet and there is strong evidence that further evolution is to be expected as new technologies arrive to spark imagination and challenge engineers to improve on the past.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Jun 1 2019

Is CS Really for All, and Defending Democracy in Cyberspace

Mark Guzdial mulls the difficulty of getting into a computer science class, while John Arquilla ponders political warfare in cyberspace.

Mark Guzdial and John Arquilla

Computing Applications

News Jun 1 2019

Neural Net Worth

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Neil Savage

Architecture and Hardware

2018 Turing Award recipients Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yoshua Bengio

News Jun 1 2019

Lifelong Learning in Artificial Neural Networks

New methods enable systems to rapidly, continuously adapt.

Gary Anthes

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jun 1 2019

And Then, There Were Three

How long can the silicon foundry sector continue to adapt, as physical limits make further shrinkage virtually impossible?

Don Monroe

Computing Applications

News Jun 1 2019

Ethics in Technology Jobs

Employees are increasingly challenging technology companies on their ethical choices.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Profession

Opinion Global computing Jun 1 2019

Global Data Justice

A new research challenge for computer science.

Linnet Taylor

Computing Profession

Opinion Inside risks Jun 1 2019

Through Computer Architecture, Darkly

Total-system hardware and microarchitectural issues are becoming increasingly critical.

Security and Privacy

Opinion The profession of IT Jun 1 2019

An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency

Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.

Peter J. Denning and David Brin

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2019

Personal Data and the Internet of Things

It is time to care about digital provenance.

Thomas Pasquier, David Eyers, and Jean Bacon

Security and Privacy

Practice Jun 1 2019

Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture

A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.

Ulan Degenbaev, Michael Lippautz, and Hannes Payer

Computing Applications

Practice Jun 1 2019

How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters)

Build safety, share vulnerability, and establish purpose.

Kate Matsudaira

Computing Profession

Practice Jun 1 2019

Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship

Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.

Zachary C. Lipton and Jacob Steinhardt

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jun 1 2019

Programmable Solid-State Storage in Future Cloud Datacenters

Programmable software-defined solid-state drives can move computing functions closer to storage.

Jaeyoung Do, Sudipta Sengupta, and Steven Swanson

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jun 1 2019

Engineering Trustworthy Systems: A Principled Approach to Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity design reduces the risk of system failure from cyberattack, aiming to maximize mission effectiveness.

O. Sami Saydjari

Security and Privacy

Research and Advances Review articles Jun 1 2019

The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence

To trust the behavior of complex AI algorithms, especially in mission-critical settings, they must be made intelligible.

Daniel S. Weld and Gagan Bansal

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence, illustration

Research and Advances Research highlights Jun 1 2019

Technical Perspective: Back to the Edge

"Heterogeneous Von Neumann/Dataflow Microprocessors" describes an innovative approach to exploit both CDFG and EDGE computation models.

Rishiyur S. Nikhil

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Jun 1 2019

Heterogeneous Von Neumann/Dataflow Microprocessors

This work studies the potential of a paradigm of heterogeneous execution models by developing a specialization engine for explicit-dataflow (SEED) and integrating it with a standard out-of-order (OOO) core.

Tony Nowatzki, Vinay Gangadhar, and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Last byte Jun 1 2019

Reaching New Heights with Artificial Neural Networks

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun on the promise of neural networks, the need for new paradigms, and the concept of making technology accessible to all.

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

2018 Turing Award recipients Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun

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