Opinion Editor's letter
Computer Architecture: Disruption from Above
For the research community, opportunities to shape a profoundly different, new age of computer architecture are emerging.
September 2018 - Vol. 61 No. 9
Features
Opinion Cerf's up
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.
Opinion Vardi's insights
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.
Opinion Letters to the editor
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.
Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
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.
Opinion Law and technology
When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid
Observations on the use of machine learning and facial inferences to classify people using inexplicable data.
Opinion The profession of IT
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.
Opinion Viewpoint
An Academic’s Observations from a Sabbatical at Google
How experiences gained in industry can improve academic research and teaching.
Opinion Viewpoint
Is Software the Result of Top-Down Intelligent Design or Evolution?
Considering the potential danger to individuals of rapid coevolution.
Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks
Tensor processing units improve performance per watt of neural networks in Google datacenters by roughly 50x.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Can Beyond-CMOS Devices Illuminate Dark Silicon?
The "new Dark Silicon" model benchmarks transistor technologies at the architectural level for multi-core processors.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
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.
Research and Advances Review articles
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.
Research and Advances Research highlights
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.
Research and Advances Research highlights
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.
Opinion Last byte
There is a simple energy-parsimonious solution to ensure the integrity of blockchains that, incidentally, also gives rise to some cool puzzles.
