BioScript: Programming Safe Chemistry on Laboratories-on-a-Chip
This paper introduces BioScript, a domain-specific language for programmable biochemistry that executes on emerging microfluidic platforms.
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Scalable Signal Reconstruction for a Broad Range of Applications
Most of the common approaches for solving signal reconstruction problem do not scale to large problem sizes. We propose a novel and scalable algorithm for solving this critical problem.
Technical Perspective: SkyCore’s Architecture Takes It to the ‘Edge’
"SkyCore," by Mehrdad Moradi, et al., addresses an exciting use case for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in which UAVs can act as mobile base stations for the cellular network, flying to areas in the network in order to improve wireless connectivity.
How to Transition Incrementally to Microservice Architecture
A field study examines technological advances that have created versatile software ecosystems to develop and deploy microservices.
Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes?
Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.
Digital Instruments as Invention Machines
An analysis of patenting history from 1850 to 2010 to detect long-term patterns of knowledge spillovers via prior-art citations of patented inventions.
MPC has moved from theoretical study to real-world usage. How is it doing?
The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car
Are U.S. government employees behaving ethically when they stockpile software vulnerabilities?
SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-Based LTE Networks
We argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge evolved packet core design, called SkyCore, that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core network.
Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes
In this paper, we study the asymptotic scaling of the space overhead needed for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Technical Perspective: Deciphering Errors to Reduce the Cost of Quantum Computation
In "Constant Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance with Quantum Expander Codes," by Omar Fawzi, et al., the authors produce an algorithm that can rapidly deduce the error in a quantum expander code, even when the syndrome is partially incorrect.
SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
We propose an Internet of Materials, where the very materials of objects and surfaces are augmented or manufactured to have computational capabilities.
Technical Perspective: The Future of Large-Scale Embedded Sensing
The system described in "SATURN: An Introduction to the Internet of Materials" works passively, energized essentially by static electricity generated as layers move relative to each other during vibration.
The Dark Triad and Insider Threats in Cyber Security
Tracing the relationship between pathological personality traits and insider cyber sabotage.
Creating efficiency in AI research will decrease its carbon footprint and increase its inclusivity as deep learning study should not require the deepest pockets.
Measuring Internet Speed: Current Challenges and Future Recommendations
Speed testing methods have flourished over the last decade, but none without at least some limitations.
Technical Perspective: XNOR-Networks – Powerful but Tricky
How to produce a convolutional neural net that is small enough to run on a mobile device, and accurate enough to be worth using? The strategies in "Enabling AI at the Edge with XNOR-Networks" are the best known to date.
Enabling AI at the Edge with XNOR-Networks
We present a novel approach to running state-of-the-art AI algorithms in edge devices, and propose two efficient approximations to standard convolutional neural networks.
The special section on Latin America highlights the excellent level of research in computer science that flourishes in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the region.
Estimating Amazon Carbon Stock Using AI-based Remote Sensing
This work presents advances in the way of a more accurate estimate of the carbon captured by forest areas, in particular the Amazon rainforest and its peculiarities.
Understanding Salsa: How Computing Is Defining Latin Music
An interdisciplinary research field called music information retrieval seeks to develop computational data search and retrieval techniques applied to music.
A Technological and Innovative Approach to COVID-19 in Uruguay
This article presents a technological and innovative approach developed to help the Uruguayan government in their fight against COVID-19.
It is critical for underrepresented communities in technology to foster initiatives that are committed to developing tools for the local adoption of AI.
Three Success Stories About Compact Data Structures
Compact data structures have been at the forefront of research in data structures over the last 20 years.
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