May 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 5

Features

Opinion From the president May 1 2020

How ACM Is Adapting in This Period of Global Uncertainties

The global impact of computing and information technology has never been clearer than it is now as the world continues its efforts to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cherri M. Pancake

Computing Profession

Opinion Departments May 1 2020

Partnerships Can Help Drive Gender Equality

Myriad organizations work to increase the number of women in the technology sector. Are we possibly reducing our collective impact because we are sometimes competing rather than cooperating for funding and volunteer effort?

Jodi Tims

Computing Profession

Opinion Departments May 1 2020

Efficiency vs. Resilience: What COVID-19 Teaches Computing

Computer science has yet to internalize the idea that resilience, which to me includes fault tolerance, security, and more, must be pushed down to the algorithmic level.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

News ACM's election May 1 2020

ACM’s 2020 General Election

Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association. Please take this opportunity to vote.

Gerald Segal

Computing Profession

Careers Departments May 1 2020

Launching a New Feature in Communications

Communications is launching a new series of articles that broaden our presentation of the computing profession, with a particular focus on a young professional audience and a breadth of career paths.

Andrew A. Chien

Computing Profession

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Careers Departments May 1 2020

Automating Automation: CS at the Heart of the Manufacturing Economy

Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on design in terms of functions, behaviors, and structures.

Arquimedes Canedo

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM May 1 2020

Teaching CS Humbly, and Watching the AI Revolution

Mark Guzdial on a book that changed his thinking about teaching computer science, and Jiajie Zhang on the AI Revolution.

Mark Guzdial and Jiajie Zhang

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News May 1 2020

A Proof from ‘The Book’

A decades-old conjecture about computational complexity is confirmed in just a few pages.

Don Monroe

Systems and Networking

News May 1 2020

Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?

The open instruction set for microprocessors promises to reshape computing and introduce new, more powerful capabilities.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

News May 1 2020

Deceiving the Masses on Social Media

The social media platforms like their freedom, but information gerrymandering may require legislation to fix.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Computing Applications

Opinion Law and technology May 1 2020

What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?

Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.

C. Scott Hemphill

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Privacy and security May 1 2020

Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice

Secure development is an important and pressing problem.

Adam Shostack and Mary Ellen Zurko

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Education May 1 2020

A Vision of K-12 Computer Science Education for 2030

Exploring goals, perspectives, and challenges.

Mike Tissenbaum and Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint May 1 2020

Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do

The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.

Aaron Hertzmann

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint May 1 2020

When Technology Goes Awry

On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.

Cal Newport

Computing Applications

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Opinion Departments May 1 2020

ACM Publications Finances

A detailed picture of financial information relating to ACM's publications revenues and expenses.

Jack W. Davidson, Joseph A. Konstan, and Scott E. Delman

Computing Applications

Practice May 1 2020

Beyond the ‘Fix-It’ Treadmill

The use of post-incident artifacts in high-performing organizations.

J. Paul Reed

Computing Applications

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Practice May 1 2020

Revealing the Critical Role of Human Performance in Software

It's time to appreciate the human side of Internet-facing software systems.

David D. Woods and John Allspaw

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles May 1 2020

Reading in the Panopticon: Your Kindle May Be Spying on You, But You Can't Be Sure

eBooks may have surveillance technologies embedded in them. Should we care?

Stephen B. Wicker and Dipayan Ghosh

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles May 1 2020

A Bibliometric Approach for Detecting the Gender Gap in Computer Science

Identifying female CS scientists by combining a robust bibliographic database and name filtering tools.

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Review articles May 1 2020

A Snapshot of the Frontiers of Fairness in Machine Learning

A group of industry, academic, and government experts convene in Philadelphia to explore the roots of algorithmic bias.

Alexandra Chouldechova and Aaron Roth

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Review articles May 1 2020

Indistinguishability

Diverse examples depict how indistinguishability plays a central role in computer science.

Hagit Attiya and Sergio Rajsbaum

Systems and Networking

Research and Advances Research highlights May 1 2020

Technical Perspective: Fake ‘Likes’ and Targeting Collusion Networks

"Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks," by Shehroze Farooqi et al., explores a social-networking reputation manipulation ecosystem.

Geoffrey M. Voelker

Security and Privacy

Research and Advances Research highlights May 1 2020

Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks

We carried out a comprehensive measurement study to understand how collusion networks exploited popular third-party Facebook applications with weak security settings to retrieve OAuth access tokens.

Shehroze Farooqi, Fareed Zaffar, Nektarios Leontiadis, and Zubair Shafiq

Security and Privacy

Opinion Last byte May 1 2020

Optimal Chimes

The importance of the space between the notes.

Dennis Shasha

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