October 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 10

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Oct 1 2022

Computing’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability

The computing community should embrace a grand challenge to reduce the carbon-emissions and environmental impact of computing in absolute terms dramatically, and if…

Andrew A. Chien

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Cerf's up Oct 1 2022

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural…

Vinton G. Cerf

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2022

Driving an Innovation Contest into Crisis

Aleksandr Romanov considers how a lack of permanent leadership is impacting the InnovateFPGA contest.

Aleksandr Romanov

Data and Information

News Oct 1 2022

Neurosymbolic AI

Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

News Oct 1 2022

In Memoriam: Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022

ACM Fellow and 1993 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Juris Hartmanis, co-inventor of complexity theory, died on July 29, 2022, at 94.

Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford

Computing Profession

1993 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Juris Hartmanis

News Oct 1 2022

Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks

Cybercriminals could be hiding malware payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software is unable to detect it.

Samuel Greengard

Computing Profession

pop-up alert stating 'That's totally not a virus, Don't tell your sysadmin'

News Oct 1 2022

Applied AI Teaches Handwriting

In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Technology strategy and management Oct 1 2022

Data Platforms and Network Effects

How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

colorful towers resembling data storage platforms, illustration

Opinion Kode Vicious Oct 1 2022

Securing the Company Jewels

GitHub and runbook security.

George Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

checklist, a gear, and security icons, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint Oct 1 2022

Storytelling and Science

Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.

Titus Barik, Sumit Gulwani, and Mario Juarez

Computing Profession

shadows on a curtain of a performer and reaching children

Opinion Viewpoint Oct 1 2022

What’s Your Placebo?

The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.

Ryan Bockmon and Stephen Cooper

Computing Profession

multiple hands raised in front of a blue and green background, illustration

Practice Oct 1 2022

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.

Jenna Butler and Catherine Yeh

Computing Profession

tech professionals working in various locations

Practice Oct 1 2022

Linear Address Spaces

Unsafe at any speed.

Poul-Henning Kamp

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Oct 1 2022

Creating a Revolutionary Academic Program

Overcoming the inherent challenges.

Umakishore Ramachandran and Zvi Galil

Computing Applications

student in a graduate's cap on a laptop computer display, illustration

Research and Advances Contributed articles Oct 1 2022

Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape

A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.

Advait Deshpande

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Review articles Oct 1 2022

Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?

Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.

Ariel Rosenfeld and Oleg Maksimov

Computing Profession

older man and a younger man looking at a laptop computer

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning

"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic…

Athina Markopoulou

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2022

Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web

In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long short-term…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2022

Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things

"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable…

Yang Zhang

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Oct 1 2022

AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking

We present AuraRing, a wearable magnetic tracking system designed for tracking fine-grained finger movement.

Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel

Computing Applications

pointing finger and hand wearing an AuraRing and tracker

Opinion Last byte Oct 1 2022

Card Nim

Ordering the Nim sum.

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

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