March 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 3

Features

Opinion Departments Mar 1 2022

The biggest problem that computing faces today is not that AI technology is unethical, but that AI technology is used by large and powerful corporations to support a business model that is, arguably, unethical.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

Careers Career paths in computing Mar 1 2022

Changing the World Through HCI and UX

You can build the best technology, but if it doesn't meet real needs, it becomes a misdirected effort. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) helps ensure technologies are useful and usable.

Eunice Sari

Computing Applications

Opinion Letters to the editor Mar 1 2022

A Division in Computer Science

The January 2022 Editor-in-Chief's column "Is the Global Computing Community Irrevocably Divided?" raises an important question. From a computing perspective, it is difficult to attempt a complete answer, let alone a solution.

CACM Staff

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Mar 1 2022

Picking Publication Targets

Carlos Baquero offers guidance on how to decide where to publish one's paper.

Carlos Baquero

Computing Profession

News Mar 1 2022

A Group Effort

Researchers look for new insights in the world of hypergraphs.

Chris Edwards

Data and Information

News Mar 1 2022

Accelerating AI

Specialized hardware to boost the speed of machine learning also saves energy.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

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News Mar 1 2022

Algorithmic Hiring Needs a Human Face

Artificial intelligence may be an unstoppable force, but in the recruitment market it has met an immovable object: humans. Something has to give.

Paul Marks

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Legally speaking Mar 1 2022

How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.

Pamela Samuelson

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Computing ethics Mar 1 2022

A Call to Action

Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.

Ronald M. Baecker

Computing Applications

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Opinion Privacy Mar 1 2022

Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?

Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2022

Futures of Digital Governance

Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.

Urs Gasser and Virgílio Almeida

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2022

Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.

Stuart Madnick

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2022

The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software

Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.

Toby Walsh

Computing Applications

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Practice Mar 1 2022

Human-Centered Approach to Static-Analysis-Driven Developer Tools

The future depends on good HCI.

Ayman Nadeem

Computing Applications

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Practice Mar 1 2022

A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

The history of Berkeley DB.

Kirk McKusick

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2022

The Pushback Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Code Review

Research shows that White, male, and younger engineers receive less pushback than those in other demographics.

Emerson Murphy-Hill, Ciera Jaspan, Carolyn Egelman, and Lan Cheng

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2022

65 Competencies: Which Ones Should Your Data Analytics Experts Have?

Delphi study sets out to identify essential cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies needed for success in data analytics.

Orli Weiser, Yoram M. Kalman, Carmel Kent, and Gilad Ravid

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2022

A Tale of Three Datasets: Characterizing Mobile Broadband Access in the U.S.

Needed improvements to mobile broadband deployment require more accurate mapping of mobile coverage, especially in rural and tribal areas.

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Review articles Mar 1 2022

Automating Data Science

Given the complexity of data science projects and related demand for human expertise, automation has the potential to transform the data science process.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2022

Technical Perspective: How Do Experts Learn New Programming Languages?

"Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?" by Shrestha et al. provides insight into the difficulty of learning new languages and suggests paths forward to addressing it.

Jonathan Aldrich

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2022

Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?

Our findings demonstrate that interference is a widespread phenomenon, forcing programmers to adopt suboptimal, opportunistic learning strategies.

Nischal Shrestha, Colton Botta, Titus Barik, and Chris Parnin

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Applying Design-Space Exploration to Quantum Architectures

"Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" presents a study on scaling trapped-ion quantum architectures, and challenges the conventional wisdom of experimentalists in the field.

Frederic T. Chong

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2022

Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

Toward realizing QCCD-based trapped ion systems with 50-100 qubits, we perform an extensive application-driven architectural study evaluating the key design choices of trap sizing, communication topology, and operation implementation methods.

Prakash Murali, Dripto M. Debroy, Kenneth R. Brown, and Margaret Martonosi

Computing Applications

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Opinion Last byte Mar 1 2022

Mining Energy from ‘Empty’ Air

Shyam Gollakota on the benefits of reducing the power consumption of communication and tapping ambient signals for electricity.

Leah Hoffmann

Architecture and Hardware

Shyam Gollakota of the University of Washington

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