Contextualized Interpretable Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
The explanations of prediction models must be based on features that are meaningful to physicians.
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Why Me?: Shedding Light on Random Processes via Randomness Beacons
Solving the apparent paradox of potentially unpredictable random process results is the objective of a verifiable randomness service offered by the University of Chile.
Toward Smart and Sustainable Cities
Evidence-based public policymaking is starting to gain attention as governments and academic projects apply modern computer science techniques to develop tools for operating a city's daily life and guiding long-term management.
Chile’s New Interdisciplinary Institute for Foundational Research on Data
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data aims to be a reference center in Latin America related to state-of-the-art research on the foundational problems with data and its application to tackling diverse issues.
A Panorama of Computing in Central America and the Caribbean
Costa Rica has managed to close the gap in access to technology for its citizens, and it is now leading the way in the region.
Imaging Sciences R&D Laboratories in Argentina
A brief history of three research laboratories with the most relevant R&D activities in imaging sciences in Argentina.
A Perspective on Theoretical Computer Science in Latin America
The Latin American theoretical computer science community has made many noteworthy achievements.
The Latin American Supercomputing Ecosystem for Science
High-performance computing represents a strategic resource for Latin American researchers to respond to the region's economical and societal challenges.
Digital Healthcare in Latin America: The Case of Brazil and Mexico
Digital Healthcare can help address some of the challenges of the healthcare system in Latin America.
A Tour of Dependable Computing Research in Latin America
A view of dependable computing research in Latin America.
While millions of students worldwide have enjoyed coding experiences over the last decade, the next challenge is spreading educational values and approaches.
Exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the graph isomorphism problem.
Technical Perspective: BLeak: Semantics-Aware Leak Detection in the Web
What is the right leak oracle that can precisely capture the behavior of leaks in Web applications? "BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications," by John Vilk and Emery D. Berger, provides a simple and yet unexpected answer to this question.
Generative Adversarial Networks
In this overview paper, we describe one particular approach to unsupervised learning via generative modeling called generative adversarial networks. We briefly review applications of GANs and identify core research problems related to convergence in games necessary to make GANs a reliable technology.
BLeak: Automatically Debugging Memory Leaks in Web Applications
This paper introduces BLeak (Browser Leak debugger), the first system for automatically debugging memory leaks in web applications.
Technical Perspective: When the Adversary Is Your Friend
The key insight of the "Generative Adversarial Networks," by Ian Goodfellow et al., is to learn a generative model's loss function at the same time as learning the model.
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps?
The value of learning skillsets within a trio of disciplines and the role each plays in DevOps.
The story of the development of a sound, static method for worst-case execution-time analysis.
Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies
Software weaknesses in cryptocurrencies create unique challenges in responsible revelations.
A Decade of Social Bot Detection
Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.
MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts
We identify gas-focused vulnerabilities and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique that automatically detects gas-focused vulnerabilities with very high confidence.
Technical Perspective: Two for the Price of One
"Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding" proves a remarkable connection between how efficiently computers can perform sorting and transmitting.
Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding
In this paper, we present a tight conditional lower bound on the complexity of external memory sorting of integers.
Technical Perspective: Analyzing Smart Contracts with MadMax
"MadMax: Analyzing the Out-of-Gas World of Smart Contracts," by Neville Grech et al., effectively discovers a new smart contract vulnerability, and proposes a detection approach based on a static analysis.
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