November 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 11

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Features

Opinion Letters to the editor

Weighing Grad School Payback

In his September 2020 column, Moshe Vardi criticizes Trump Administration policies prohibiting foreign graduate students and points out the dearth of domestic graduate students willing to fill positions. I would like to share my perspective on why I chose another path.
Research and Advances Latin America Regional Special Section: Hot Topics

Estimating Amazon Carbon Stock Using AI-based Remote Sensing

This work presents advances in the way of a more accurate estimate of the carbon captured by forest areas, in particular the Amazon rainforest and its peculiarities.
Research and Advances Latin America Regional Special Section: Hot Topics

Toward Smart and Sustainable Cities

Evidence-based public policymaking is starting to gain attention as governments and academic projects apply modern computer science techniques to develop tools for operating a city's daily life and guiding long-term management.
Research and Advances Research highlights

Generative Adversarial Networks

In this overview paper, we describe one particular approach to unsupervised learning via generative modeling called generative adversarial networks. We briefly review applications of GANs and identify core research problems related to convergence in games necessary to make GANs a reliable technology.

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