June 2020 Issue
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Attaining The Third Dimension
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional...
Meltdown
Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.
An Animating Spirit
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer...
Contextual Word Representations
Noah A. Smith discusses "Contextual Word Representations," a Review Article in the June 2020 CACM.
Supercomputer Model Simulations Reveal Cause of Neanderthal Extinction
Institute for Basic Science (South Korea)
Supercomputer models determined that competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens …
Watson's Creator Wants to Teach AI a New Trick: Common Sense
Wired
David Ferrucci built a computer that mastered Jeopardy! Since then …
Cellphone Data Helps Track Mobility Patterns During Social Distancing
Colorado State University
Researchers in Colorado used cellphone data to estimate how much …
The Remote Revolution Has to be Driven by Output Not Salaries
Yegor Bugayenko
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all for a loop and forced countless companies to shutter their offices, warehouses...
Is A (Nearly) Zero-Cost Model Plausible for Science and Engineering Programs?
Orit Hazzan
Is a skill-based, multi-level win-win, and (almost) zero-cost model for undergraduate science and engineering programs in a research...
The World's Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
Herbert Bruderer
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.