Asia’s Surging Interest in Binary Analysis
The expanding cyber infrastructure in Asia has ignited strong interests in software security, leading to a surge of research activities in binary analysis in the region.
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The discovery of this calculating machine is so significant that part of the history of ancient technology must be rewritten.
Technical Perspective: An Answer to Fair Division’s Most Enigmatic Question
The envy-free cake-cutting problem stood its ground for two decades, until it was cracked by Aziz and Mackenzie. Their solution is presented in "A Bounded and Envy-Free Cake Cutting Algorithm."
A Bounded and Envy-Free Cake Cutting Algorithm
We report on our algorithm that resolved the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to find an envy-free allocation of a divisible resource based on queries from agents.
The BBC micro:bit – From the U.K. to the World
A codable computer half the size of a credit card is inspiring students worldwide to develop core computing skills in fun and creative ways.
A platform for creating a crowdsourced picture of human opinions on how machines should handle moral dilemmas.
Technologies for manipulating our digital appearance alter the way the world sees us as well as the way we see ourselves.
Toward Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation
Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.
Technical Perspective: A Perspective on Pivot Tracing
Instead of handing trace records off to a collector for long-term storage and future processing, the system described in "Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems," by Jonathan Mace, et al., installs continuous queries, on demand, inside the distributed system itself.
Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
This paper presents Pivot Tracing, a monitoring framework for distributed systems, which addresses the limitations of today's monitoring and diagnosis tools by combining dynamic instrumentation with a novel relational operator: the happened-before join.
Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED
We introduce LiShield, which automatically protects a physical scene against photographing, by illuminating it with smart LEDs flickering in specialized waveforms.
Directions for Professional Social Matching Systems
Future PSM systems will require diversity-enhancing yet contextually sensitive designs.
Toward ML-Centric Cloud Platforms
Exploring the opportunities to use ML, the possible designs, and our experience with Microsoft Azure.
Fuzzing: Hack, Art, and Science
Reviewing software testing techniques for finding security vulnerabilities.
Technical Perspective: Lighting the Way to Visual Privacy
"Automating Visual Privacy Protection Using a Smart LED," presents a new technique to address the issue of cameras capturing proprietary or private information—it stops most digital cameras from recording a useful image while the scene remains visible to human eyes.
Dependability in Edge Computing
Edge computing holds great promise, and almost as many challenges in deployment.
Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning
Uncovering the mysterious ways machine learning models make decisions.
Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal
There is a common belief that grades in computer science courses are bimodal. We devised a psychology experiment to understand why CS educators hold this belief.
Technical Perspective: Is There a Geek Gene?
"Evidence that Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal" uses empirical methods to determine if belief in innate differences may explain why CS teachers see a bimodality in grades.
Automated program repair can relieve programmers from the burden of manually fixing the ever-increasing number of programming mistakes.
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