October 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 10

Features

Opinion Cerf's up Oct 1 2018

Many people are finding ways to do harmful things through the Internet medium. Responses to these abuses have been sporadic at best.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

Opinion Letters to the editor Oct 1 2018

Hennessy and Patterson on the Roots of RISC

Awarding ACM's 2017 A.M. Turing Award to John Hennessy and David Patterson was richly deserved and long overdue. It would have been good if "Rewarded for RISC" (June 2018) had mentioned the contributions of John Cocke at IBM.

CACM Staff

Architecture and Hardware

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2018

Can We Use AI for Global Good?

Amir Banifatemi observes how the AI for Good Summit "allowed us to start a dialogue, find a common frame of reference, and decide how our steps would be smart and structured."

Amir Banifatemi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Oct 1 2018

Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays

In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Oct 1 2018

Transient Electronics Take Shape

Advances in materials science and chemistry are leading to self-destructing circuits and transient electronics, which could impact many fields.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

Transient Electronics Take Shape, illustration

News Oct 1 2018

The Dangers of Automating Social Programs

Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

wheelchair on crumbling path, illustration

Opinion Technology strategy and management Oct 1 2018

The Business of Quantum Computing

Considering the similarities of quantum computing development to the early years of conventional computing.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Profession

Opinion Privacy and security Oct 1 2018

A Pedagogic Cybersecurity Framework

A proposal for teaching the organizational, legal, and international aspects of cybersecurity.

Peter Swire

Security and Privacy

Opinion Kode vicious Oct 1 2018

The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code

Teach your junior programmers how to read code.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Oct 1 2018

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code

A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.

Jean-François Abramatic, Roberto Di Cosmo, and Stefano Zacchiroli

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint Oct 1 2018

Are CS Conferences (Too) Closed Communities?

Assessing whether newcomers have a more difficult time achieving paper acceptance at established conferences.

Jordi Cabot, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, and Valerio Cosentino

Computing Profession

Practice Oct 1 2018

The Mythos of Model Interpretability

In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.

Zachary C. Lipton

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Mythos of Model Interpretability, illustration

Practice Oct 1 2018

The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role

The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.

Kate Matsudaira

Computing Profession

Practice Oct 1 2018

Mind Your State for Your State of Mind

The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.

Pat Helland

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Oct 1 2018

Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?

What just happened in artificial intelligence and how it is being misunderstood.

Adnan Darwiche

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Contributed articles Oct 1 2018

Formally Verified Software in the Real World

Verified software secures the Unmanned Little Bird autonomous helicopter against mid-flight cyber attacks.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Oct 1 2018

The Productivity Paradox in Health Information Technology

New York State healthcare providers increased their use of the technology but delivered only mixed results for their patients.

Quang "Neo" Bui, Sean Hansen, Manlu Liu, and Qiang (John) Tu

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Review articles Oct 1 2018

Computing Within Limits

The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2018

Technical Perspective: A Control Theorist’s View on Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones

"Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones" introduces the notion of "reactive control" in which an autopilot's control logic is run only intermittently based on whether readings from sensors indicate a need to react to something in the environment.

John Baillieul

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2018

Fundamental Concepts of Reactive Control for Autonomous Drones

We conceive a notion of reactive control that allows drones to execute the low-level control logic only upon recognizing the need to, based on the influence of the environment onto the drone operation.

Luca Mottola and Kamin Whitehouse

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2018

Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI

"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized.

Marc Snir

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2018

Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided

In this work, we design and develop bufferless protocols that demonstrate how to implement the MPI-3 RMA interface and support scaling to millions of cores.

Robert Gerstenberger, Maciej Besta, and Torsten Hoefler

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Last byte Oct 1 2018

Reaping the Benefits of a Diverse Background

Earlier this year, ACM named Dina Katabi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing for her creative contributions to wireless systems.

Leah Hoffmann

Computing Applications

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