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April 2021 Issue

Welcome

Building a Research University in the Arab Region: The Case of KAUST

Building a Preeminent Research Lab in the Arab Region: The Case of QCRI

Data Science for the Oil and Gas Industry in the Arab Region

The Strategic Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates

An AI-Enabled Future for Qatar and the Region

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Lebanon

Autonomous Driving in the Face of Unconventional Odds

Traffic Routing in the Ever-Changing City of Doha

ArabHCI: Five Years and Counting

A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World

The Arab World Prepares the Exascale Workforce

Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development

Cyber Security Research in the Arab Region: A Blooming Ecosystem with Global Ambitions

Unleashing Early Maturity Academic Innovations

Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community

Networking Research for the Arab World: From Regional Initiatives to Potential Global Impact

Database Systems Research in the Arab World: A Tradition that Spans Decades

Connecting Arabs: Bridging the Gap in Dialectal Speech Recognition

Everything VPN Is New Again

Safe Systems Programming in Rust

The (Im)possibility of Fairness: Different Value Systems Require Different Mechanisms For Fair Decision Making

Transformers Aftermath: Current Research and Rising Trends

Technical Perspective: The Strength of SuRF

Succinct Range Filters

Arab World Special Section

Arab World Special Section: Hot Topics

Arab World Special Section: Big Trends

Practice

Contributed Articles

Review Articles

Research Highlights

Table of Contents

Welcome

Over the last decade, the Arab world witnessed a significant investment in computer research and the corresponding enabling industry...

Building a Multilingual Wikipedia

Seeking to develop a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared among language editions.

Safe Systems Programming in Rust

The promise and the challenges of the first industry-supported language to master the trade-off between safety and control.

Arab World Region

Co-organizers Sherif G. Aly, Mohamed Mokbel, and Moustafa Youssef discuss the Arab World Regional Special Section in the April 2021 CACM (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/4).

Human Brain Organoids Grown in Cheap 3D-Printed Bioreactor

New Scientist

A human brain organoid was cultured in a week in …

Scientists Harness Chaos to Protect Devices From Hackers

Ohio State News

A new version of physically unclonable functions could prevent even …

As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Squash Them

The New York Times

A 2020 locust plague in East Africa was mitigated by …

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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases

Alex Williams

SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar...

The World's Most Magnificent Historical Calculating Machines

Herbert Bruderer

The design of today's electronic computers is usually not very appealing, in contrast to magnificent mechanical calculating machines...

Misnomer and Malgorithm

Robin K. Hill

The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.

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