Unleashing Early Maturity Academic Innovations
How four prominent universities across the Arab region stimulate high-quality undergraduate research and innovation in computing.
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Connecting Arabs: Bridging the Gap in Dialectal Speech Recognition
Arabic poses a set of unique speech recognition challenges due to its rich dialectal variety.
Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community
The biomedical computing research community in the Arab world has been actively contributing to efforts that tackle long-standing biomedical challenges.
Safe Systems Programming in Rust
The promise and the challenges of the first industry-supported language to master the trade-off between safety and control.
What does it mean to be fair?
Transformers Aftermath: Current Research and Rising Trends
Attention, particularly self-attention, is a standard in current NLP literature, but to achieve meaningful models, attention is not enough.
We present the Succinct Range Filter (SuRF), a fast and compact data structure for approximate membership tests.
Technical Perspective: The Strength of SuRF
The authors of "Succinct Range Filters" make a critical and insightful observation: For a given set of queries, the upper levels of the trie incur many more accesses than the lower levels. This results in a data structure that is both fast and memory efficient.
Gender Trends in Computer Science Authorship
Under optimistic projection models, gender parity is forecast to be reached after 2100.
Educational Interventions and Female Enrollment in IT Degrees
A study of female students enrolled in IT degrees in Australia traces how programs influenced decision making.
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology
Technological and economic forces are now pushing computing away from being general purpose and toward specialization.
Tracking the historical events that lead to the interweaving of data and knowledge.
Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques
The evolution of and countermeasures for existing reconnaissance techniques.
Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization
In this work, we presented a simple experimental framework for interrogating purported measures of generalization.
Technical Perspective: Localizing Insects Outdoors
"3D Localization for Subcentimeter-Sized Devices," by Iyer, et al., neatly separates and solves the problems of robotic locomotion, sensing, localization, and communications packaged into a tiny payload.
3D Localization for Subcentimeter-Sized Devices
We present the first localization system that consumes microwatts of power at a mobile device and can be localized across multiple rooms in settings such as homes and hospitals.
Technical Perspective: Why Don’t Today’s Deep Nets Overfit to Their Training Data?
"Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking Generalization," Chiyuan Zhang, et al., brings a fundamental new theoretical challenge: Why don't today's deep nets overfit to training data?
Technical Perspective: Solving the Signal Reconstruction Problem at Scale
"Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications," by Abolfazl Asudeh, et al. shows that algorithmic insights about SRP, combined with database techniques, can be used to scalably solve the signal reconstruction problem.
Technical Perspective: Programming Microfluidics to Execute Biological Protocols
The approach taken in "BioScript," by Jason Ott, et al., is an example of how programming languages can help develop executable protocols that are conforming, understandable, safe, and retargetable.
AZERTY amélioré: Computational Design on a National Scale
A new French keyboard standard is the first designed with the help of computational methods.
Keeping Science on Keel When Software Moves
An approach to reproducibility problems related to porting software across machines and compilers.
DP-Cryptography: Marrying Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Emerging Applications
Synthesizing the emerging directions of research at the intersection of differential privacy and cryptography.
A Review of the Semantic Web Field
Tracing the triumphs and challenges of two decades of Semantic Web research and applications.
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