A Formal Approach to Identifying the Impact of Noise on Neural Networks
An overview of the state of the art and its limitations for analyzing the impacts of noise on artificial neural networks.
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Computing for Climate Resilience in Agriculture
A report on the Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture (PoCRA) program whose main objective is to make smallholder farmers resilient to climate variability through targeted interventions.
This second regional special section from India represents the diversity and excitement of the computational sciences in India through 15 articles, all co-written by authors from the Indian subcontinent.
Computing and Assistive Technology Solutions for the Visually Impaired
While accessibility normally refers only to the modality for making information accessible, in the Indian context, it is tightly tied to affordability.
Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
The SHAKTI Processor Program started as an academic initiative in 2014 aimed to create open source, industrial-grade processors and build associated components of a more extensive ecosystem.
Impactful Research and Tooling for Program Correctness
We have been developing two frameworks — VeriAbs and VeriFuzz — to solve the problems of formal methods to improve software quality, which often fail to scale to the size and complexity of software.
Digital Interventions at Scale: Lessons from NPTEL and IIT Madras B.S. Degree Program
Online learning provides an effective approach to some of the systemic challenges related to higher education in India. Two key initiatives have demonstrated positive results.
National Digital Library of India: Democratizing Education in India
The National Digital Library of India was conceptualized with an aim to bring equity of access to educational resources for every Indian through a single window access mechanism.
Prutor: An Intelligent Learning and Management System for Programming Courses
The Prutor browser-based tutoring system offers an integrated development environment (IDE) with a text editor, linter, interactive access to a remote compiler, and a debugger.
Bringing the Missing Women Back: CS Education for Women in India's Engineering Institutions
Several initiatives have come up to address gender gaps in the context of engineering education in India.
Toward Explainable Deep Learning
Explainability has become a cornerstone of responsible AI use and deployment.
Fake News in India: Scale, Diversity, Solution, and Opportunities
The massive proliferation of fake news in India has created a dire need to consider solutions explicitly catering to the region.
Theory Research in India: 2019–2022
We explore some of the results of exciting new research in the field of algorithms in India.
AI and Data Science Centers in Top Indian Academic Institutions
A ook at the activities of artificial intelligence and data science centers located at seven top Indian institutes.
COVID-19 Modeling for India and a Roadmap for the Future
A look at models developed in India to forecast the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country.
A look at some of the major research accomplishments resulting from the efforts of several academic institutes to secure cyberspace.
Reliability at Multiple Stages in a Data Analysis Pipeline
Data-centric methods designed to increase end-to-end reliability of data-driven decision systems.
Intent-Based Networking for the Enterprise: A Modern Network Architecture
IBN promises to better align network operations with enterprise intent, but several challenges must be resolved before it can reach its full potential.
Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat setting.
Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites
In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.
Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things
"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.
Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?
Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
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By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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