Academic Rankings Considered Harmful!
Academic rankings, in general, provide highly misleading ways to inform academic decision making by individuals. Using such rankings for academic decision making is…
September 2016 - Vol. 59 No. 9
Features
To those who have spoken for and who espouse an open and welcoming Internet now falls the task of keeping it that way. To do so will require more than words and argument.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
Election Auditing and Verifiability
Re "The Risks of Self-Auditing Systems" (June 2016): While Internet voting (like any remote-voting method) is indeed vulnerable to vote buying and selling,…
Reconciling Quantum Physics with Math
Mathematicians explore the root of many problems in developing a proof for the Kadison-Singer problem.
Graphical processing units have emerged as a major powerhouse in the computing world, unleashing huge advancements in deep learning and AI.
Scientists are learning more about what makes robots and chatbots engaging.
Opinion Law and Technology
No Easy Answers in the Fight Over iPhone Decryption
A look at the legal background and future possibilities for an issue that is likely to reoccur.
Opinion The profession of IT
Software users are looking more and more for software that delights.
Opinion Broadening participation
‘For All’ in ‘Computer Science For All’
Seeking to expand inclusiveness in computer science education.
Opinion Viewpoint
Designing AI Systems that Obey Our Laws and Values
Calling for research on automatic oversight for artificial intelligence systems.
Opinion Viewpoint
Helping Conference Attendees Better Understand Research Presentations
Sharing lessons learned from a lecture program for making technical material more accessible to conference attendees.
Opinion Viewpoint
A New Look at the Semantic Web
Seeking to make Web data "smarter" by utilizing a new kind of semantics.
Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem
Using database views to define citable units is the key to specifying and generating citations to data.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Dynamic Presentation Consistency Issues in Smartphone Mapping Apps
Smartphone mapping apps routinely fail to follow centuries-old mapmaking dynamic consistency principles and practices.
Research and Advances Review articles
Learning Executable Semantic Parsers For Natural Language Understanding
Semantic parsing is a rich fusion of the logical and the statistical worlds.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The Dawn of Computational Light Transport
What would the world look like if we had a chance to observe it with a trillion frame-per-second video camera? "Imaging the Propagation of Light through Scenes at…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Imaging the Propagation of Light Through Scenes at Picosecond Resolution
We present a novel imaging technique, which we call femtophotography, to capture and visualize the propagation of light through table-top scenes with an effective…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Jupiter Rising
As "Jupiter Rising" makes clear, many of the Internet mechanisms for maintaining large-scale networks are suboptimal when the datacenter is largely homogeneous,…
Research and Advances Research highlights
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network
We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago.
Opinion Last byte
Stefan Savage's innovative research has focused on strengthening the security, privacy, and reliability of networks.
