Computing’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability
October 2022 - Vol. 65 No. 10
Features
Opinion Editor's letter
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.
Opinion Cerf's up
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.
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Driving an Innovation Contest into Crisis
Aleksandr Romanov considers how a lack of permanent leadership is impacting the InnovateFPGA contest.
Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.
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.
Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks
Cybercriminals could be hiding malware payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software is unable to detect it.
Applied AI Teaches Handwriting
In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Data Platforms and Network Effects
How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Creating a Revolutionary Academic Program
Overcoming the inherent challenges.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.
Research and Advances Review articles
Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?
Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.
Research and Advances Research highlights
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.
Research and Advances Research highlights
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.
Research and Advances Research highlights
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.
Research and Advances Research highlights
AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking
We present AuraRing, a wearable magnetic tracking system designed for tracking fine-grained finger movement.