Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.
Research and Advances
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Contextual Word Representations: Putting Words into Computers
Advances in how programs treat natural language words have a big impact in AI.
Strategically augmented street lamps can become the key enabling technology in smart cities.
We model the problem of identifying a good algorithm from data as a statistical learning problem.
Technical Perspective: Algorithm Selection as a Learning Problem
"Data-Driven Algorithm Design," by Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, addresses the issue that the best algorithm to use for many problems depends on what the input "looks like."
A Bibliometric Approach for Detecting the Gender Gap in Computer Science
Identifying female CS scientists by combining a robust bibliographic database and name filtering tools.
Reading in the Panopticon: Your Kindle May Be Spying on You, But You Can't Be Sure
eBooks may have surveillance technologies embedded in them. Should we care?
A Snapshot of the Frontiers of Fairness in Machine Learning
A group of industry, academic, and government experts convene in Philadelphia to explore the roots of algorithmic bias.
Diverse examples depict how indistinguishability plays a central role in computer science.
Technical Perspective: Fake ‘Likes’ and Targeting Collusion Networks
"Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks," by Shehroze Farooqi et al., explores a social-networking reputation manipulation ecosystem.
Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks
We carried out a comprehensive measurement study to understand how collusion networks exploited popular third-party Facebook applications with weak security settings to retrieve OAuth access tokens.
Welcome to the special section covering East Asia and Oceania, which includes Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Asia-Pacific countries including Japan and Korea.
Innovating Services and Digital Economy in Singapore
A report on Singapore's technology development in the services and digital economy, with insights for research over the next five years.
Capturing Cultural Heritage in East Asia and Oceania
How to capture (the experience of) cultural objects in digital form?
The NII Shonan Meeting in Japan
Since the inaugural NII Shonan Meeting in February 2011, more than 140 meetings have been held with participants representing 60 countries and regions.
Cybersecurity in Pacific Island Nations
One security issue that has begun to emerge and will only accelerate without individual and collective action is the threat of cyberattacks and cybercrime in the Oceania region.
Singapore’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem
Since 2013, Singapore's medium- to long-term directions for cybersecurity is to develop R&D expertise and capabilities to improve the trustworthiness of cyber infrastructures and systems.
5G Commercialization and Trials in Korea
Government-industry 5G collaborations, including the R&D roadmap, the first 5G experience, and 5G vertical trials made the 5G-enabled industrial transformation take place in Korea.
AI Singapore: Empowering a Smart Nation
The AI Singapore national initiative was launched in June 2017 as an integrated, impact-driven, research and innovation program in artificial intelligence for the entire country.
Detecting Fake News in Social Media: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
Many of the latest techniques to automatically debunk fake news were initiated in the Asia and Oceania region.
seL4 in Australia: From Research to Real-World Trustworthy Systems
An overview of developments, and of ongoing research, related to the correctness proof of the seL4 microkernel.
Advances in Security Research in the Asiacrypt Region
Members of the International Association for Cryptologic Research explore regional work and collaboration activities.
Developing AI for Law Enforcement in Singapore and Australia
The Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS), using AI capabilities, better enables all parties to evaluate the strengths or weaknesses of their legal cases.
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