The Seattle Report on Database Research
Every five years, a group of the leading database researchers meet to reflect on their community's impact on the computing industry as well as examine current research challenges.
Research and Advances
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Some small companies are making crowdwork part of their formal business via teams that can complete multifaceted, complex tasks requiring specialized expertise.
On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing different criteria.
Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence
Making AI more trustworthy with a formal methods-based approach to AI system verification and validation.
Language Models: Past, Present, and Future
A language modeling overview, highlighting basic concepts, intuitive explanations, technical achievements, and fundamental challenges.
Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics
In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.
Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact of using sampled metrics instead of exactly computed metrics.
Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on visualization search.
The growing popularity of computational workflows is also a cause for concern. How can we enjoy the common benefits of the workflows and eliminate the risks?
Perspectives on the role and responsibility of the data-management research community in designing, developing, using, and overseeing automated decision systems.
Challenges, Experiments, and Computational Solutions in Peer Review
Improving the peer review process in a scientific manner shows promise.
Technical Perspective: Computation Where the (inter)Action Is
"SoundWatch," by Dhruv Jain et al., provides an example of HCI research's vital role in designing architectures that trade off different computational capabilities and latencies.
SoundWatch: Deep Learning for Sound Accessibility on Smartwatches
We present SoundWatch, a smartwatch-based deep learning application to sense, classify, and provide feedback about sounds occurring in the environment.
Technical Perspective: The Compression Power of the BWT
"Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture," by Dominik Kempa and Tomasz Kociumaka, finally settles the question of how well r in the BWT captures repetitiveness.
Resolution of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform Conjecture
In this paper, we show that r = (z log2 n) holds for every text. This result has numerous implications for text indexing and data compression.
Learning New Things and Avoiding Obstacles
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Jack Dongarra never intended to work with computers.
Artificial Intelligence for Synthetic Biology
The opportunities and challenges of adapting and applying AI principles to synbio.
Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication
We propose a rateless fountain coding strategy and prove that its latency is asymptotically equal to ideal load balancing, and it performs asymptotically zero redundant computations.
This paper presents a study on the practicality of operating system kernel debloating, that is, reducing kernel code that is not needed by the target applications.
Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Explorations in CPS education and related research projects over the past two decades unveil where CPS learning is headed.
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century
To understand automation and the future of work, this study explores how human labor competes, or cooperates, with technology in performing a range of tasks.
The Go Programming Language and Environment
Released as open source in November 2009, Go has become the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider. Its creators look back on how Go got here and why it has stuck around.
Technical Perspective: ‘What Is the Ideal Operating System?’
The authors of "Set the Configuration for the Heart of the OS" put a fresh view on the practicability of automatic kernel debloating.
Shape the Future of Computing
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Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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