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Dec 1 2022

Technical Perspective: The ‘Art’ of Automatic Benchmark Extraction

"DIAMetrics," by Shaleen Deep et al., describes a versatile framework from Google for automatic extraction of benchmarks and their distributed execution and performance monitoring.

Peter Boncz

Computing Applications

Dec 1 2022

Producing Competent HPC Graduates

Employers seek recruits who can apply the knowledge, skill, and culture they acquire in college to solve problems as soon as they enter the workforce.

Juan Chen, Sheikh Ghafoor, and John Impagliazzo

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Dec 1 2022

Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality among U.S. Computing Faculty

A study of the intersections of gender, race, socioeconomic status, prestige, and subfield structure in computing.

Computing Profession

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Dec 1 2022

The Evolution of Mathematical Software

Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.

Jack J. Dongarra

Architecture and Hardware

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Dec 1 2022

Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography

Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.

Ewa Nowara, Daniel McDuff, Ashutosh Sabharwal, and Ashok Veeraraghavan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Dec 1 2022

How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?

A framework for aiding future Java mutation tool comparisons.

Computing Applications

Dec 1 2022

DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale

This paper introduces DIAMetrics: a novel framework for end-to-end benchmarking and performance monitoring of query engines.

Computing Applications

Dec 1 2022

Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI

Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.

Leah Hoffmann

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Nov 1 2022

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.

Iram Tariq Bhatti, Mahum Naseer, Muhammad Shafique, and Osman Hasan

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

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.

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

Welcome Back!

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.

Hemangee Kalpesh Kapoor, Mausam, and Venkatesh Raman

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

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.

M. Balakrishnan

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

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.

Kamakoti Veezhinathan

Architecture and Hardware

Nov 1 2022

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.

Priyanka Darke, Ravindra Metta, Raveendra Kumar Medicherla, and R. Venkatesh

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

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.

Jayakrishnan Warriem, Andrew Thangaraj, Madhavan Mukund, and Bharathi Balaji

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

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.

Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Partha Pratim Das, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, and Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

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.

Amey Karkare and Purushottam Kar

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

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.

Bidisha Chaudhuri, Meenakshi D'Souza, and Janaki Srinivasan

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

Toward Explainable Deep Learning

Explainability has become a cornerstone of responsible AI use and deployment.

Vineeth N. Balasubramanian

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

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.

Shivangi Singhal, Rishabh Kaushal, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Computing Applications

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Nov 1 2022

Theory Research in India: 2019–2022

We explore some of the results of exciting new research in the field of algorithms in India.

C. Aiswarya, V. Arvind, and Saket Saurabh

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

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.

B. Ravindran, Sunita Sarawagi, and Aditi Jain

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

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.

Siva Athreya, Gautam I. Menon, and Rajesh Sundaresan

Computing Applications

Nov 1 2022

Cybersecurity in India

A look at some of the major research accomplishments resulting from the efforts of several academic institutes to secure cyberspace.

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Computing Applications

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