May 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 5

Features

Opinion Cerf's up May 1 2018

Computer programs are being used to emulate humans to fool less-sophisticated programs into treating computer-generated actions as if they originate from a human. This is an important practical problem.

Vinton G. Cerf

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Editorial May 1 2018

Toward Sustainable Access: Where Are We Now?

The publishing landscape is changing, and ACM with it. We take this opportunity to describe what ACM thinks about recent trends, recent changes, and the future.

Jack Davidson, Joseph Konstan, Andrew A. Chien, and Scott Delman

Computing Applications

Jack Davidson, Joseph Konstan, Andrew A. Chien, Scott Delman

Opinion Vardi's insights May 1 2018

How We Lost the Women in Computing

We cannot understand the current gender disparity in computing without understanding the history of women in computing. How did we lose the women in computing? They did not just leave; they were pushed out.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

News ACM's election May 1 2018

ACM’s 2018 General Election

Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association.

CACM Staff

Computing Profession

Opinion Letters to the editor May 1 2018

Get ACM (and Communications) Out of Politics

Recent editorial policy seems to have let ACM morph into what I would call the left-leaning ACM.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM May 1 2018

Commenting on Code, Considering Data’s Bottleneck

Edwin Torres considers the enduring value of code comments, while Walid Saba wonders if we have overreacted to the knowledge acquisition bottleneck.

Edwin Torres and Walid Saba

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News May 1 2018

Shrinking Machines, Cellular Computers

Scientists are using DNA and RNA to build the world's tiniest robots and computing devices.

Gregory Mone

Architecture and Hardware

News May 1 2018

Using Functions for Easier Programming

Functional programming languages automate many of the details underlying specific operations.

Neil Savage

Computing Applications

Using Functions for Easier Programming, illustration

News May 1 2018

Finding a Healthier Approach to Managing Medical Data

Researchers are exploring ways to put medical data to greater use while better protecting privacy.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Profession

Finding a Healthier Approach to Managing Medical Data, illustration

Opinion Law and technology May 1 2018

Is the Law Ready for Driverless Cars?

Yes, with one big exception.

Ryan Calo

Computing Applications

Is the Law Ready for Driverless Cars? illustrative photo

Opinion Privacy and security May 1 2018

Putting Trust in Security Engineering

Proposing a stronger foundation for an engineering discipline to support the design of secure systems.

Fred B. Schneider

Security and Privacy

Putting Trust in Security Engineering, illustration

Opinion Education May 1 2018

Scale or Fail

Moving beyond self-selected computer science education in Switzerland.

Alexander Repenning

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint May 1 2018

The March Into the Black Hole of Complexity

Addressing the root causes of rapidly increasing software complexity.

Harold "Bud" Lawson

Computing Applications

The March into the Black Hole of Complexity, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint May 1 2018

Science, Policy, and Service

Some thoughts on the way forward.

Margaret Martonosi

Computing Profession

Science, Policy, and Service, illustration

Practice May 1 2018

Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

Malte Schwarzkopf and Peter Bailis

Computing Applications

Practice May 1 2018

Canary Analysis Service

Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.

Štěpán Davidovič and Betsy Beyer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Practice May 1 2018

How Is Your Week Going So Far?

Praise matters just as much as money.

Kate Matsudaira

Computing Profession

How Is Your Week Going So Far? illustrative photo

Research and Advances Contributed articles May 1 2018

More Than the Code: Learning Rules of Rejection in Writing Programs

A teacher and students coding together make explicit the unwritten rules of programming.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles May 1 2018

Internet Freedom in West Africa: Technical Support for Journalists and Democracy Advocates

The U.S. State Department's Internet Freedom agenda is being adapted to help them communicate without DNS and IP address filtering.

Computing Applications

Internet Freedom in West Africa, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles May 1 2018

Data Acquisition in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

The data comes from multiple optimal sources in parallel, helping reduce addressing and data-acquisition latency.

Xiaonan Wang

Architecture and Hardware

Data Acquisition in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, illustration

Research and Advances Review articles May 1 2018

Speech Emotion Recognition: Two Decades in a Nutshell, Benchmarks, and Ongoing Trends

Tracing 20 years of progress in making machines hear our emotions based on speech signal properties.

Björn W. Schuller

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Speech Emotion Recognition, illustration

Research and Advances Research highlights May 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Breaking the Mold of Machine Learning

"Never-Ending Learning" is the latest and one of the most compelling incarnations of Tom Mitchell and his collaborators' research investigating how to broaden the machine learning field.

Oren Etzioni

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights May 1 2018

Never-Ending Learning

In this paper we define more precisely the never-ending learning paradigm for machine learning, and present one case study: the Never-Ending Language Learner (NELL), which achieves a number of the desired properties of a never-ending learner.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Last byte May 1 2018

Free Press

When all online news and comment can be digitally manipulated, some might recall a more trustworthy way to spread the word.

Ken MacLeod

Computing Applications

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