April 2024 - Vol. 67 No. 4

Features

Opinion Cerf's Up Mar 7 2024

While the core transport protocols of the Internet are binary in character, one could imagine a more text-oriented exchange protocol for inter-ML systems.

Vinton G. Cerf

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 25 2024

Using Data Science to Predict How Rituals Will Evolve

Orit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak consider how the data science perspective helped to predict the transformation of Israel’s 2023 social protest.

Orit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak

News Mar 19 2024

Answers Begin to Surface to Deep Earth Puzzles

Evidence from high orbit is helping to shape understanding of the churning processes that shape oceans and continents.

Chris Edwards

Computing Applications

Earth layers representation; marble onyx stone

News Mar 15 2024

Governments Setting Limits on AI

Many countries and regions are considering, or trying to implement, regulations on the training and use of artificial intelligence.

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Mar 13 2024

Abusing AI for Advertising

Will generative artificial intelligence accelerate the growth of made-for-advertising sites?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

AI-generated image of a kitten and puppy in a clickbait ad, illustration

Opinion Mar 6 2024

How Generative AI Fits into Knowledge Work

Seeking to influence how generative artificial intelligence affects various professions.

Mari Sako

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Mar 19 2024

Generative AI and CS Education

Increased knowledge sharing is helping CS educators and researchers accelerate change in computing education.

Maggie Johnson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Mar 15 2024

Bias, Skew, and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity

Social media would still be a mess even without engagement algorithms.

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi

Computing Applications

Opinion Kode Vicious Mar 11 2024

Is There Another System?

Computer science is the study of what can be automated.

George Neville-Neil

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Mar 20 2024

Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?

Current understanding is not sufficient to let LLMs perform relevance judgments without human intervention.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Opinion Mar 20 2024

Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awareness: An Example from India

Examining attitudes on the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Hemangee K. Kapoor and David A. Patterson

Education

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Practice Mar 11 2024

Device Onboarding Using FDO and the Untrusted Installer Model

FDO’s untrusted model is contrasted with Wi-Fi Easy Connect to illustrate the advantages of each mechanism.

Geoffrey H. Cooper

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mar 14 2024

The Security Jawbreaker

Access to a system should not imply authority to use it. Enter the principle of complete mediation.

Phil Vachon

Security and Privacy

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Research and Advances Mar 6 2024

The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text

A technical introduction to LLM-generated text detection methods.

Ruixiang Tang, Yu-Neng Chuang, and Xia Hu

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Research and Advances Mar 14 2024

A Small Clue Made of Fragmented Pieces

The effect of online comment history disclosure on digital citizenship.

Society

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Research and Advances Mar 21 2024

Fast Parameterized Preprocessing for Polynomial-Time Solvable Graph Problems

The challenge of transforming polynomialtime algorithms to really efficient ones.

Anne-Sophie Himmel, George B. Mertzios, André Nichterlein, and Rolf Niedermeier

Theory

Research and Advances Mar 22 2024

Language-Based Software Testing

Constraints over grammar elements can make test generation easier than ever.

Dominic Steinhöfel and Andreas Zeller

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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Opinion Mar 18 2024

Technical Perspective: Learning-Based Memory Allocation for C++ Server Workloads

"Learning and Lifetime-Based Resource Management for Memory Allocation and Beyond," by Martin Maas et al., explores the potential of using imperfect information in the…

Doug Lea

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Mar 18 2024

Combining Machine Learning and Lifetime-Based Resource Management for Memory Allocation and Beyond

We introduce a two-step approach to attain high memory utilization in huge pages, which gives rise to a new methodology for applying Machine Learning in computer systems.

Architecture and Hardware

Omer Tower in Israel, constructed of Lego

Opinion Upstart Puzzles Mar 18 2024

Jump Snatch

Overcoming a checkered pass.

Dennis Shasha

Data and Information

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