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October 2023 - Vol. 66 No. 10
Features
Gary Marcus considers it appropriate that governments are stepping up on artificial intelligence, but finds some of the resulting signals deeply worrisome.
Considering the transformative possibilities of simulated models of biological phenomena and systems at multiple scales.
Using Psychology to Bolster Cybersecurity
Getting into the minds of attackers to protect the enterprise.
Opinion Technology Strategy and Management
Generative AI as a New Innovation Platform
Considering the stability and longevity of a potential new foundational technology.
Opinion Inside Risks
Certification of Safety-Critical Systems
Seeking new approaches toward ensuring the safety of software-intensive systems.
New Threats to Society from Free-Speech Social Media Platforms
Understanding emerging threats from social media platforms.
It Is Time to Let Go of ‘Virtual Reality’
Advocating standardized terminology and reporting guidelines for mixed reality research.
Designing a Framework for Conversational Interfaces
Combining the latest advances in machine learning with earlier approaches.
Research and Advances Research
A conceptual framework and research agenda for neural rendering of realistic digital faces.
Research and Advances Research
Show It or Tell It? Text, Visualization, and Their Combination
When communicating information, language should be considered as co-equal with visualization.
Research and Advances Research
Low-code has the potential to empower more people to automate tasks by creating computer programs.
Research
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.
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.
Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews
We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com.
"Locating Everyday Objects Using NFC Textiles," by Jingxian Wang et al., describes the potential of Near-Field Communication for advanced home automation.
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.
