October 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 10

Features

Opinion Cerf's Up Oct 1 2023

The barriers to information generation and sharing have plummeted; information consumers can choose among billions of potential sources. This is information at scale.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2023

Controlling AI

Gary Marcus considers it appropriate that governments are stepping up on artificial intelligence, but finds some of the resulting signals deeply worrisome.

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Oct 1 2023

Biomedical Digital Twins

Considering the transformative possibilities of simulated models of biological phenomena and systems at multiple scales.

Gregory Mone

Data and Information

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News Oct 1 2023

The Fight to Repair

How the battle over the right to repair is tipping in favor of consumers.

Logan Kugler

Architecture and Hardware

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News Oct 1 2023

Using Psychology to Bolster Cybersecurity

Getting into the minds of attackers to protect the enterprise.

David Geer

Security and Privacy

Opinion Technology Strategy and Management Oct 1 2023

Generative AI as a New Innovation Platform

Considering the stability and longevity of a potential new foundational technology.

Michael A. Cusumano

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Inside Risks Oct 1 2023

Certification of Safety-Critical Systems

Seeking new approaches toward ensuring the safety of software-intensive systems.

Nancy G. Leveson and John P. Thomas

Security and Privacy

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Opinion Kode Vicious Oct 1 2023

Stone Knives and Bear Skins

There is no money in tools.

George V. Neville-Neil

Computing Applications

Opinion Oct 1 2023

Barbershop Computing

Moving education beyond computer science pipelines.

Education

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Opinion Oct 1 2023

How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation

Factoring the slowing up of startups.

James Bessen

Data and Information

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Opinion Oct 1 2023

New Threats to Society from Free-Speech Social Media Platforms

Understanding emerging threats from social media platforms.

Dominik Bär, Nicolas Pröllochs, and Stefan Feuerriegel

Computing Applications

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Opinion Oct 1 2023

It Is Time to Let Go of ‘Virtual Reality’

Advocating standardized terminology and reporting guidelines for mixed reality research.

Rick Skarbez, Missie Smith, and Mary Whitton

Computing Applications

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Practice Oct 1 2023

Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces

Combining the latest advances in machine learning with earlier approaches.

Zachary Tellman

HCI

Practice Oct 1 2023

Beyond the Repository

Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers.

Amanda Casari, Julia Ferraioli, and Juniper Lovato

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Oct 1 2023

Beyond Deep Fakes

A conceptual framework and research agenda for neural rendering of realistic digital faces.

Michael Seymour, Kai Reimer, Lingao Yuan, and Alan R. Dennis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Oct 1 2023

Show It or Tell It? Text, Visualization, and Their Combination

When communicating information, language should be considered as co-equal with visualization.

Marti A. Hearst

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Oct 1 2023

Low-Code Programming Models

Low-code has the potential to empower more people to automate tasks by creating computer programs.

Martin Hirzel

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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Research Oct 1 2023

Generating and Exploiting Automated Reasoning Proof Certificates

Moving toward a full suite of proof-producing automated reasoning tools with SMT solvers that can produce full, independently checkable proofs for real-world problems.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Oct 1 2023

Technical Perspective: A Rare Glimpse of Tracking Fake Reviews

"Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews," by Sherry He et al., represents a breakthrough in our empirical understanding of fake reviews on Amazon.

Shreyas Sekar

HCI

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Oct 1 2023

Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews

We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com.

Sherry He, Brett Hollenbeck, and David Proserpio

Data and Information

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Oct 1 2023

Technical Perspective: Sensing Interaction with Everyday Objects Using Near-Field Communication in Textiles

"Locating Everyday Objects Using NFC Textiles," by Jingxian Wang et al., describes the potential of Near-Field Communication for advanced home automation.

Polly Huang

HCI

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Research and Advances Research Highlights Oct 1 2023

Locating Everyday Objects Using NFC Textiles

This paper builds a Near-Field Communication-based localization system that allows ordinary surfaces to locate surrounding objects with high accuracy in the near-field.

Computing Applications

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Opinion Last Byte Oct 1 2023

Tidy Towers

A tale of two towers.

Dennis Shasha

Computing Applications

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