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Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution
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Technical Perspective: Cooking Up a Solution to Microwave Heat Distribution

"Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven," by Haojian Jin et al., introduces a feedback mechanism to microwave heating through a technique the authors call...

Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven
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Software-Defined Cooking Using a Microwave Oven

We present software-defined cooking (SDC), a low-cost closed-loop microwave oven system that aims to heat food in a software-defined thermal trajectory.

Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games
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Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games

"MIP* = RE," by Zhengfeng Ji et al., studies quantum interactive proofs.

MIP* = RE
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MIP* = RE

In this work, we study a fourth modification to the notion of efficient verification that originates in the study of quantum entanglement.

Technical Perspective: Finding the Sweet Spot Amid Accuracy and Performance
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Technical Perspective: Finding the Sweet Spot Amid Accuracy and Performance

"Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service," by Alexandru Cristian et al., makes accessible an end-to-end cloud service that produces traffic-aware, real-time...

Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service
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Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service

We describe multi-itinerary optimization, a novel Bing Maps service that automates the process of building itineraries for multiple agents while optimizing their...

Technical Perspective: The Real-World Dilemma of Security and Privacy by Design
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Technical Perspective: The Real-World Dilemma of Security and Privacy by Design

"Securing the Wireless Emergency Alerts System," by Jihoon Lee et al., investigates real-world attacks on the current implementation of Wireless Emergency Alerts...

Securing the Wireless Emergency Alerts System
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Securing the Wireless Emergency Alerts System

We investigate the Wireless Emergency Alert system and develop and demonstrate the first practical spoofing attack on Presidential Alerts, using commercially available...

Technical Perspective: Liquid Testing Using Built-in Phone Sensors
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Technical Perspective: Liquid Testing Using Built-in Phone Sensors

"Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone," by Shichao Yue and Dina Katabi, proposes a novel technique for determining the surface tension of a liquid by leveraging...

Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone
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Liquid Testing with Your Smartphone

We show a simple and accurate approach to measuring surface tension that's available to anyone with a smartphone.

Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?
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Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?

"PlanAlyzer," by Emma Tosch et al., details PlanAlyzer software, the first tool to statically check the validity of online experiments.

PlanAlyzer
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PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments

We present the first approach for checking the internal validity of online experiments statically, that is, from code alone.

Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE
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Technical Perspective: The Importance of WINOGRANDE

"WINOGRANDE" explores new methods of dataset development and adversarial filtering, expressly designed to prevent AI systems from making claims of smashing through...

WinoGrande
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WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale

We introduce WinoGrande, a large-scale dataset of 44k problems, inspired by the original Winograd Schema Challenge, but adjusted to improve both the scale and the...

Technical Perspective: eBP Rides the Third Wave of Mobile Health
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Technical Perspective: eBP Rides the Third Wave of Mobile Health

The automated blood pressure wearable system described in "eBP," by Nam Bui et al., is a sterling example of the third wave of mobile health tech to fill the preventative...

eBP
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eBP: An Ear-Worn Device for Frequent and Comfortable Blood Pressure Monitoring

We developed eBP to measure blood pressure from inside a user's ear aiming to minimize the measurement's impact on normal activities while maximizing its comfort...

Technical Perspective: The Quest for Optimal Multi-Item Auctions
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Technical Perspective: The Quest for Optimal Multi-Item Auctions

"Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning," by Paul Dütting et al., contributes a very interesting and forward-looking new take on the optimal multi-item mechanism...

Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning
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Optimal Auctions Through Deep Learning

We overview recent research results that show how tools from deep learning are shaping up to become a powerful tool for the automated design of near-optimal auctions...

Technical Perspective: Tracking Pandemic-Driven Internet Traffic
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Technical Perspective: Tracking Pandemic-Driven Internet Traffic

"A Year in Lockdown," by Anja Feldmann, et al., offers a detailed look at how Internet traffic changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Year in Lockdown
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A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic

We review the impact of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on Internet traffic in order to analyze its performance.
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