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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act

FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value...

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the...

Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias
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Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias

"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded...

Actionable Auditing Revisited
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Actionable Auditing Revisited: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products

This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial...

Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness
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Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness

We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.

Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?
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Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?

In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair...

Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
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Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language

"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on...

Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics
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Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics

In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.

Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
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Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging

"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact...

On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
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On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation

This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing...

Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
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Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection

In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for...

FANG
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FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation

We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.

Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias 'In the Wild'
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Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias 'In the Wild'

The authors of "Cognitive Biases in Software Development" rightly highlight the need for situated studies that examine cognitive bias 'in the wild' during software...

Cognitive Biases in Software Development
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Cognitive Biases in Software Development

We conducted a two-part field study to examine the extent to which cognitive biases occur, the consequences of these biases on developer behavior, and the practices...

Technical Perspective: Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism
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Technical Perspective: Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism

"Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs" is an example of work that takes seriously the task of supporting a small group that...

Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs
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Supporting People with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Exploration of PoIs: An Inclusive Recommender System

We propose a novel Top-N recommendation model that combines information about an autistic user's idiosyncratic aversions with her/his preferences in a personalized...

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: 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.
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