June 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 6

Features

Opinion Cerf's Up Jun 1 2023

As the inventor of Ethernet, now ubiquitous in so many forms, Bob Metcalfe, the Turing Award Laureate for 2022, has earned the right to speak about connectivity.

Vinton G. Cerf

Architecture and Hardware

BLOG@CACM Jun 1 2023

AI in the Enterprise

Doug Meil identifies the development behaviors that offer the highest chance of success for enterprise artificial intelligence efforts.

Doug Meil

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jun 1 2023

Making Connections

Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.

Neil Savage

Computing Profession

Bob Metcalfe, 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient

News Jun 1 2023

Better Algorithms through Faster Math

The search for new algorithms that could reduce the time needed for multiplication is now at the center of data science.

Samuel Greengard

Data and Information

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News Jun 1 2023

Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT

Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

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News Jun 1 2023

Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid

Ensuring the billions of dollars governments send the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jun 1 2023

In Memoriam: William A. Wulf

Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.

Simson L. Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford

Computing Profession

Opinion The Profession of IT Jun 1 2023

Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?

It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.

Peter J. Denning

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Inside Risks Jun 1 2023

Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.

Peter G. Neumann

Computing Profession

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Opinion Kode Vicious Jun 1 2023

The Parchment Path?

Is there ever a time when learning is not of value—for its own sake?

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

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Opinion Historical Reflections Jun 1 2023

Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science

How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.

Thomas Haigh

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2023

Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly

How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.

Micah D. Beck and Terry R. Moore

Computing Profession

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Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2023

Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society

Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.

Emanuel Moss

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2023

Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications

Breaking down the blockchain.

Massimo Franceschet

Computing Applications

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Practice Jun 1 2023

To PiM or Not to PiM

The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.

Gabriel Falcao and João Dinis Ferreira

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Jun 1 2023

Taking Flight with Copilot

Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Jun 1 2023

The Silent (R)evolution of SAT

Today's powerful, robust SAT solvers have become primary tools for solving hard computational problems.

Johannes K. Fichte, Daniel Le Berre, Markus Hecher, and Stefan Szeider

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed Articles Jun 1 2023

Buffer-Bloated Router? How to Prevent It and Improve Performance

Home broadband routers suffering bufferbloat can degrade the user experience when accessing the Internet.

Philippa Harrison

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Review Articles Jun 1 2023

Should Robots Have Rights or Rites?

A Confucian cross-cultural exploration of the ethical treatment of robots.

Tae Wan Kim and Alan Strudler

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Review Articles Jun 1 2023

On the Implicit Bias in Deep-Learning Algorithms

Examining the implicit bias in training neural networks using gradient-based methods.

Gal Vardi

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Jun 1 2023

Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act

FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value…

Alfons Kemper

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research Highlights Jun 1 2023

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the power…

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research Highlights Jun 1 2023

Technical Perspective: What Does Provable Security Mean for Cryptographic Schemes?

For a given cryptographic scheme, as perfect security is almost never achievable, one requires a computational assumption. Computational assumptions are some well-defined…

David Pointcheval

Security and Privacy

Research and Advances Research Highlights Jun 1 2023

On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP

We reveal that in the interoperable world of OpenPGP, unforeseen cross-configuration attacks become possible.

Luca De Feo, Bertram Poettering, and Alessandro Sorniotti

Security and Privacy

Opinion Last Byte Jun 1 2023

Still Networking

Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

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