Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?
September 2014 - Vol. 57 No. 9

Features
						A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.					
								
			
						As our computational tools become more and more powerful, we can  anticipate that our growing knowledge of the mechanics of our world will  allow us to use simulation to visualize, understand, and even design  processes that we could only crudely imagine before.					
								
			
						Opinion													Letters to the Editor
																			
																	
													Provenance of British Computing
						David Anderson's "Tom Kilburn: A  Tale of Five Computers" (May 2014) was fascinating and informative, but no  article on the history of British computing can avoid the precedence  controversy between the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge.					
								
			Refining Students’ Coding and Reviewing Skills
						Philip Guo sees code reviews providing students "lots of pragmatic learning."					
								
			Weathering a New Era of Big Data
						Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.					
								
			
						Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.					
								
			
						Opinion													Law and technology
																			
																	
													Accountability in Future Internet Architectures
						Can technical and legal aspects be happily intertwined?					
								
			
						Opinion													Historical reflections
																			
																	
													
													
						Reflections on the intersection of computing and the humanities.					
								
			
						Opinion													The profession of IT
																			
																	
													Learning For the New Digital Age
						Digital machines are automating knowledge work at an accelerating pace. How shall we learn and stay relevant?					
								
			
						Opinion													Viewpoint
																			
																	
													Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
						Using theoretical models to plan for AI safety.					
								
			
						Opinion													Viewpoint
																			
																	
													Soft Infrastructure Challenges to Scientific Knowledge Discovery
						Seeking to overcome nontechnical challenges to the scientific enterprise.					
								
			
						Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.					
								
			Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
						Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.					
								
			
						Research and Advances													Contributed articles
																			
																	
													Security, Cybercrime, and Scale
						Defense begins by identifying the targets likely to yield the greatest reward for an attacker's investment.					
								
			
						Research and Advances													Contributed articles
																			
																	
													Online Deception in Social Media
						The unknown and the invisible exploit the unwary and the uninformed for illicit financial gain and reputation damage.					
								
			
						Research and Advances													Review articles
																			
																	
													Optimality in Robot Motion: Optimal Versus Optimized Motion
						Exploring the distinction between an optimal robot motion and a robot motion resulting from the application of optimization techniques.					
								
			
						Research and Advances													Research highlights
																			
																	
													Technical Perspective: Portraiture in the Age of Big Data
						"Moving Portraits" is, in some sense, part of the  perpetual quest to capture the perfect portrait. Its principal  contribution is in adapting this age-old problem to our post-modern, big  data world.					
								
			
						Research and Advances													Research highlights
																			
																	
													
													
						We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person. By optimizing the quantity and order in which photos are displayed, we can create moving portraits from collections of still photos.					
								
			
						Opinion													Last byte
																			
																	
													Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
						Last month (August 2014), we presented three puzzles concerning the Path Game and the Match Game, each of which can be played on any finite graph.					
								
			
						Opinion													Last byte
																			
																	
													
													
						ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recipient David Blei recalls the origins of his famous topic model, its extensions, and its uses in areas that continue to amaze him.
					
								
			























