Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis
While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.
November 2025 - Vol. 68 No. 11
Features
Communications Practice Section Welcomes Submissions
We look forward to working with authors whose articles expand both the utility and the delights of computing.
Shedding Labels, Sidestepping Limitations, and Self-Fulfillment
A career is not about success but about succeeding on your own terms.
A look at the mechanics and economics of the AI-enabled cybercriminal frontier, plus actionable insights for defense.
Scientists are using machine learning techniques such as classifiers to identify units of language and hope deep neural networks will help them figure out what animals might be talking about.
Creating Digital Replicas of History with AI
AI-assisted renderings can show historic structures in precise detail across different time periods.
LLMs and generative AI are rapidly transforming how Web searches are conducted and delivered.
The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Software researchers can make their research more accessible by actively approaching those communities that stand to benefit most from their findings.
Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?
A common complaint is that developers infringe by using in-copyright materials as training data for the foundation models that power their AI systems.
Culture, Language, and Generative Language Models
Human users are prone to believe that a generative language model is erudite and intelligent, conflating linguistic competence with other human characteristics.
Trading Bits for Atoms: How Digital Products Are Reshaping the Global Economy
Digital trade is a new engine of economic growth that alters traditional notions of trade balances.
Reinventing AI: Is It the Time for a New Paradigm?
Breaking the dogma that AI requires huge computing power and huge datasets could open up new technological horizons.
Tech Workers Versus Enshittification
Tech workers have historically been monumentally uninterested in unionization, but now is the time to get organized.
When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?
There are still ways to further reduce the overhead of programs that span the JavaScript/Wasm boundary.
WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?
Identifying winning and losing patterns of Wasm deployments.
Automatically Translating C to Rust
Static analysis is helping the research community improve automatic C-to-Rust translators.
The likelihood of AI serving as an omnipotent, truth-saying oracle soon is not great.
Cyberpsychology’s Influence on Modern Computing
An overview of cyberpsychology’s contributions to the field of computing and technology.
Shields for Safe Reinforcement Learning
Shielding is a principled and effective approach to ensuring the safety of reinforcement learning, even during training.
Technical Perspective: Cryptocurrency Browser-Extension Security: A Wake-Up Call and a Way Forward
Cryptocurrency-themed browser extensions offer utility and convenience but also new opportunities for cybercriminals to steal cryptocurrency, launch phishing attacks, or conduct unauthorized crypto mining.
Characterizing Cryptocurrency-Themed Malicious Browser Extensions
This work characterizes cryptocurrency-themed malicious extensions and encourages extension store operators to enact dedicated countermeasures.
A young man's desperation to recount a forgotten part of his memory leads him down a dark path.
