June 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 6

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Jun 1 2020

What Do DDT and Computing Have in Common?

In addition to reaping computing's bounty (education, information access, entertainment, commerce, efficiency, and more), we should "own" and work to reduce the negative impacts of computing.

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Profession

Opinion Letters to the editor Jun 1 2020

Safety Proposal Points in Same Direction

In her February 2020 column ("Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?"), Nancy Leveson says the solution to software safety is not "building a software architecture and generating the requirements later." We are surprised that anyone would propose such an approach.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

typewriter, Letters to the Editor illustration

Opinion Cerf's up Jun 1 2020

Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic

There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Jun 1 2020

Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online

Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.

Terrence DeFranco and Jeremy Roschelle

Architecture and Hardware

News Jun 1 2020

An Animating Spirit

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work.

Neil Savage

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan

News Jun 1 2020

Leveraging Unlabeled Data

Deep learning looks for better pretexts.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jun 1 2020

Seeing Through Walls

Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.

Neil Savage

Architecture and Hardware

action recognition through walls and occlusions

News Jun 1 2020

Hiring from the Autism Spectrum

Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.

Esther Shein

Computing Profession

Opinion Inside risks Jun 1 2020

How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home

Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.

Connor Bolton, Kevin Fu, Josiah Hester, and Jun Han

Architecture and Hardware

locked and unlocked IoT icons with home floor plan

Opinion Kode vicious Jun 1 2020

Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic

With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

stopped vehicle and students in crosswalk

Opinion The profession of IT Jun 1 2020

Technology Adoption

The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.

Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2020

Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?

Programming research has entered the Neuroage.

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2020

AI and Accessibility

A discussion of ethical considerations.

Meredith Ringel Morris

Computing Applications

Practice Jun 1 2020

Commit to Memory

Chipping away at Moore's Law.

Jessie Frazelle

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Jun 1 2020

Communicate Using the Numbers 1, 2, 3, and More

Leveraging expectations for better communication.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jun 1 2020

Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space

Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.

Security and Privacy

circuit board with Spectre and Meltdown icons

Research and Advances Contributed articles Jun 1 2020

The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology

It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.

Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, and Nick Logler

Computing Applications

cloud computing and related hardware, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Jun 1 2020

Contextual Word Representations: Putting Words into Computers

Advances in how programs treat natural language words have a big impact in AI.

Noah A. Smith

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

computer monitor and word cloud, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles Jun 1 2020

Street Lamps as a Platform

Strategically augmented street lamps can become the key enabling technology in smart cities.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Jun 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem

"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input "looks like."

Avrim Blum

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Jun 1 2020

Data-Driven Algorithm Design

We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.

Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Last byte Jun 1 2020

Attaining The Third Dimension

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional imagery to computer graphics.

Leah Hoffmann

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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