September 2019 Issue
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Computational Sustainability
Computer and information scientists join forces with other fields to help solve societal and environmental challenges facing...
EarSketch
EarSketch leverages the appeal of music to create a learning environment that allows students to be expressive with code.
OpenFab
We present OpenFab, a programmable pipeline for synthesis of multimaterial 3D printed objects that is inspired by RenderMan and...
Computational Sustainability
Carla Gomes discusses "Computational Sustainability" (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/9/238970), a Contributed Article in the September 2019 CACM.
Can We Print a New Set of Coral Reefs Before They're Gone?
Fast Company
Scientists at three Israeli institutions are collaborating to restore dying …
Russia Sends Its First Humanoid Robot into Space
Agence France-Presse
Russia has sent an unmanned spacecraft containing a life-size humanoid …
EU Plans Sweeping Regulation of Facial Recognition
Financial Times
The European Commission is planning regulation that will entitle European …
The Autocracy of Autonomous Systems
Saurabh Bagchi
We, as developers of such systems, need to take some conscious decisions to make sure we do not usher in the age of autocracy...
We Should Stop Saying 'Language Independent.' We Don't Know How To Do That
Mark Guzdial
We know how to make multi-lingual pseudocode-based assessments, not language-independent assessments.
Who Manufactured the Mysterious Chinese Android?
Herbert Bruderer
In the 18th century, there were several famous makers of automatons in Europe; who created the Chinese musical clock automaton...