Open Collaboration in an Age of Distrust

We are manifestly in a new era of international relations—"An Age of Distrust"—where the trend toward increased trade and integration has stalled, if not reversed.

Andrew A. Chien

A People-Centered Economy

Innovation for Jobs (i4j.info) recently published a book describing a new, people-centered view of work. Rather than organizing work around tasks, the idea is to organize work around people and their skills.

Vinton G. Cerf

Are We Having An Ethical Crisis in Computing?

The computing field seems to be going through another image crisis these days. Many view this as an ethical crisis. I am dubious of the diagnosis.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Answering Children's Questions About Computers

Judy Robertson addresses the disconnect between what children are taught about computers and what they actually wish to know.

Judy Robertson

Quantum Leap

A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.

Don Monroe

Hidden Messages Fool AI

Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.

Chris Edwards

Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?

Three-dimensional scanning can be used to protect or rebuild historic structures, but who owns that digital data?

Esther Shein

Illegal Pricing Algorithms

Examining the potential legal consequences of using pricing algorithms.

Michal S. Gal

CRISPR: An Emerging Platform for Gene Editing

Considering a potential platform candidate in the evolving realm of gene-editing technologies research.

Michael A. Cusumano

Hey Google, What's a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo

Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.

Thomas Haigh

UCF's 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision

A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.

Niels Da Vitoria Lobo, Mubarak A. Shah

Modeling in Engineering and Science

Understanding behavior by building models.

Edward A. Lee

Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel

Save time by sharing and reusing build and test output.

Alpha Lam

Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age

Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.

Jessie Frazelle

SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Autonomous Tools and Design: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning

In addition to having a detailed understanding of the artifacts they intend to create, designers need to guide the software tools they use.

Stefan Seidel, Nicholas Berente, Aron Lindberg, Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey V. Nickerson

Framework for Implementing a Big Data Ecosystem in Organizations

Featuring the various dimensions of data management, it guides organizations through implementation fundamentals.

Sergio Orenga-Roglá, Ricardo Chalmeta

The Church-Turing Thesis: Logical Limit or Breachable Barrier?

In its original form, the Church-Turing thesis concerned computation as Alan Turing and Alonzo Church used the term in 1936—human computation.

B. Jack Copeland, Oron Shagrir

Intelligent Systems for Geosciences: An Essential Research Agenda

A research agenda for intelligent systems that will result in fundamental new capabilities for understanding the Earth system.

Yolanda Gil, Suzanne A. Pierce, Hassan Babaie, Arindam Banerjee, Kirk Borne, Gary Bust, Michelle Cheatham, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Carla Gomes, Mary Hill, John Horel, Leslie Hsu, Jim Kinter, Craig Knoblock, David Krum, Vipin Kumar, Pierre Lermusiaux, Yan Liu, Chris North, Victor Pankratius, Shanan Peters, Beth Plale, Allen Pope, Sai Ravela, Juan Restrepo, Aaron Ridley, Hanan Samet, Shashi Shekhar, Katie Skinner, Padhraic Smyth, Basil Tikoff, Lynn Yarmey, Jia Zhang

Deception, Identity, and Security: The Game Theory of Sybil Attacks

Classical mathematical game theory helps to evolve the emerging logic of identity in the cyber world.

William Casey, Ansgar Kellner, Parisa Memarmoshrefi, Jose Andre Morales, Bud Mishra

Technical Perspective: Photorealistic Facial Digitization and Manipulation

If facial performance capture is possible for conventional RGB videos in real time, then believable facial expressions can be transferred effortlessly from one person to another in a live-action scenario. This capability is demonstrated …

Hao Li

Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos

Face2Face is an approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated …

Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Marc Stamminger, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Nießner

Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation

"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account when choosing cryptographic parameters.

Dan Boneh

Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice

We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.

David Adrian, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Zakir Durumeric, Pierrick Gaudry, Matthew Green, J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, Drew Springall, Emmanuel Thomé, Luke Valenta, Benjamin VanderSloot, Eric Wustrow, Santiago Zanella-Béguelin, Paul Zimmermann

Randomized Anti-Counterfeiting

Consumers and pharmaceutical companies have at least one interest in common: Neither wants the consumer to consume counterfeit drugs.

Dennis Shasha