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 possible, to zero.

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 network choice or decision is incorrect.

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 V. 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 classification space.

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 memory layers and convolutional neural networks.

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 ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.

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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