November 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 11

Features

Opinion Departments Nov 1 2023

One of the most fundamental conundrums in the philosophy of mathematics is the question of whether mathematics was discovered by humans or invented by them.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Data and Information

BLOG@CACM Nov 1 2023

Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language

PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.

Doug Meil

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

News Nov 1 2023

Quantum Speedup for the Fast Fourier Transform?

It is difficult to improve on the widely used, already-efficient algorithm.

Don Monroe

Data and Information

News Nov 1 2023

What’s Old Is New Again

Analog computing offers one possible solution to the downsides of digital computing.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

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News Nov 1 2023

Accessibility and Inclusion through Technology

Helping the sensory-impaired overcome their impediments.

Keith Kirkpatrick

HCI

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Opinion Legally Speaking Nov 1 2023

Legal Challenges to Generative AI, Part II

Deliberating on inconclusive AI-generated policy questions.

Pamela Samuelson

Architecture and Hardware

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Opinion Nov 1 2023

On Being a Computer Science Communicator

Facilitating more effective public engagement with a computer science perspective.

Sheldon H. Jacobson

Computing Profession

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Opinion Economic and Business Dimensions Nov 1 2023

The Gamification of Academia

Gaming the system.

Sean Flaherty and Gregg Gordon

Education

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Opinion Nov 1 2023

Machine Learning Sensors

A design paradigm for the future of intelligent sensors.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Privacy Nov 1 2023

Privacy in the Age of AI

What has changed and what should we do about it?

Sauvik Das, Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, and Jodi Forlizzi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Nov 1 2023

The Infrapolitics of Algorithmic Resistance

Exploring the complex interactions between humans and machines governed by algorithms.

Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, Fernando Filgueiras, and Virgílio Almeida

HCI

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Opinion Nov 1 2023

Rethinking Conference Formats

Suggesting a conference format better suited for both onsite and virtual conferences.

Anna Förster

Computing Profession

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Practice Nov 1 2023

Echoes of Intelligence

Textual interpretation and large language models.

Alvaro Videla

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Practice Nov 1 2023

DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity

The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.

Abi Noda, Margaret-Anne Storey, Nicole Forsgren, and Michaela Greiler

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research Nov 1 2023

Scrambled Features for Breakfast: Concepts of Agile Language Development

Describing a framework to support simpler development of languages best suited to express the problems and solutions of each particular domain.

Walter Cazzola and Luca Favalli

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Research Nov 1 2023

Informatics Higher Education in Europe: A Data Portal and Case Study

A discussion on the need for coordinated, governed, data-driven computing education initiatives of the future.

Elisabetta Di Nitto, Ismael García-Varea, Mehdi Jazayeri, and Svetlana Tikhonenko

Education

Research and Advances Research Nov 1 2023

Is TinyML Sustainable?

Assessing the environmental impacts of machine learning on microcontrollers.

Architecture and Hardware

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Research and Advances Research Nov 1 2023

Uncloneable Cryptography

In memory of Stephen Wiesner, 1942–2021.

Or Sattath

Data and Information

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Research Highlights Nov 1 2023

Technical Perspective: What’s All the Fuss about Fuzzing?

"Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective," by Marcel Böhme, Valentin J.M. Manès, and Sang Kil Cha, presents a novel twist to fuzzing that is shown to increase the central metric of the number of bugs found.

Gordon Fraser

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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Research Highlights Nov 1 2023

Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective

In this paper, we take the fundamental perspective of fuzzing as a learning process.

Marcel Böhme, Valentin J.M. Manès, and Sang Kil Cha

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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Opinion Last Byte Nov 1 2023

How Climate Change Was Won

A Martian report from the future carries good news about the future of Earth.

Ross Koningstein

Society

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