September 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 9

Features

Opinion Editor's letter Sep 1 2018

Computer Architecture: Disruption from Above

For the research community, opportunities to shape a profoundly different, new age of computer architecture are emerging.

Andrew A. Chien

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Cerf's up Sep 1 2018

The Peace of Westphalia

A look at today's headlines suggests the transnational Internet and World Wide Web have become avenues through which the Peace of Westphalia agreement is regularly violated.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Profession

Opinion Vardi's insights Sep 1 2018

Move Fast and Break Things

Whether or not the theory of disruptive innovation has predictive power, it is a powerful story that explains the rise and fall of tech empires. It is deeply embedded in the psyche of Silicon Valley.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

Opinion Letters to the editor Sep 1 2018

Hippie Values Really Did Build the Internet

Moshe Y. Vardi's column "How the Hippies Destroyed the Internet" (July 2018) sent me to my computer in shock where I was relieved to find that nobody has actually yet destroyed the Internet.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2018

Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?

Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.

Yegor Bugayenko

Computing Applications

News Sep 1 2018

AI Holds the Better Hand

Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.

Don Monroe

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Sep 1 2018

Robotic Implants

Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."

Gregory Mone

Architecture and Hardware

News Sep 1 2018

Borders in the Cloud

New data protection laws raise questions about whether certain jurisdictions are trying to thwart the ability of foreign governments to obtain data on their citizens.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Computing ethics Sep 1 2018

Overtrust in the Robotic Age

A contemporary ethical challenge.

Alan R. Wagner, Jason Borenstein, and Ayanna Howard

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Law and technology Sep 1 2018

When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid

Observations on the use of machine learning and facial inferences to classify people using inexplicable data.

Frank Pasquale

Computing Applications

Opinion The profession of IT Sep 1 2018

Navigating with Accelerating Technology Change

Mathematical tools such as S-curves locate inflection points in technology-accelerated social spaces; where we move next depends on our navigational skills.

Peter J. Denning

Systems and Networking

Opinion Viewpoint Sep 1 2018

An Academic’s Observations from a Sabbatical at Google

How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.

Adam Barker

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Sep 1 2018

Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?

Considering the potential danger to individuals of rapid coevolution.

Edward A. Lee

Computing Applications

Practice Sep 1 2018

GitOps: A Path to More Self-Service IT

IaC + PR = GitOps

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Computing Applications

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Practice Sep 1 2018

Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification

Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.

Noor Mubeen

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Practice Sep 1 2018

Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

Gustavo Alonso and Peter Bailis

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Sep 1 2018

A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks

Tensor processing units improve performance per watt of neural networks in Google datacenters by roughly 50x.

Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, and David Patterson

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Sep 1 2018

Can Beyond-CMOS Devices Illuminate Dark Silicon?

The "new Dark Silicon" model benchmarks transistor technologies at the architectural level for multi-core processors.

Robert Perricone, X. Sharon Hu, Joseph Nahas, and Michael Niemier

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Contributed articles Sep 1 2018

Peer Assessment of CS Doctoral Programs Shows Strong Correlation with Faculty Citations

Strong correlation indicates notable research productivity of individual faculty members in turn boosts the standing of their programs.

Computing Applications

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Research and Advances Review articles Sep 1 2018

An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems

Deterministic database systems show great promise, but their deployment may require changes in the way developers interact with the database.

Daniel J. Abadi and Jose M. Faleiro

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Is Your WiFi a Sensor?

"Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals" shows that not only can the heartrate be counted with accuracy comparable to ECG devices, but the variabilities of the heart signals—in each pulse—can be recognized as well.

Romit Roy Choudhury

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Research highlights Sep 1 2018

Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals

This paper demonstrates a new technology that can infer a person's emotions from RF signals reflected off his body.

Mingmin Zhao, Fadel Adib, and Dina Katabi

Computing Applications

Opinion Last byte Sep 1 2018

Bounce Blockchain

There is a simple energy-parsimonious solution to ensure the integrity of blockchains that, incidentally, also gives rise to some cool puzzles.

Dennis Shasha

Systems and Networking

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