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Departments
The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences
The current computing-research publication system conflates research publishing with community building. We may need in-person conferences for community building, but not so many!
Moshe Y. Vardi
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Career paths in computing
Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's a Fun Career
In 1963, the British government decided to make the world's most powerful computer. The manufacturer, Ferranti, asked would-be buyers to send their best programmers to help. Kodak sent me.
Ann Moffatt
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Assessing Internet Software Engineering, Encouraging Competitions
Andrei Sukhov considers the potential for reducing international tensions through competitive events, while Vivek S. Buzruk looks at the evolution of teaching Internet software engineering.
Andrei Sukhov, Vivek S. Buzruk
Pages 8-9
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News
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.
Samuel Greengard
Pages 11-13
Holograms on the Horizon?
Machine learning drives toward 3D imaging on the move.
Chris Edwards
Pages 14-16
Filtering for Beauty
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.
Esther Shein
Pages 17-19
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Legally speaking
Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
Pamela Samuelson
Pages 20-22
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Privacy
Privacy Engineering Superheroes
Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.
Lea Kissner, Lorrie Cranor
Pages 23-25
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Computing ethics
Shaping Ethical Computing Cultures
Lessons from the recent past.
Katie Shilton, Megan Finn, Quinn DuPont
Pages 26-29
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Education
Explicative Programming
Making Computational Thinking relevant to schools.
Alexander Repenning, Ashok Basawapatna
Pages 30-33
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Viewpoint
Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental rights framework already provides some clear guidance on the use …
Karl Stöger, David Schneeberger, Andreas Holzinger
Pages 34-36
We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.
Yoram Reich, Eswaran Subrahmanian
Pages 37-39
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China Region special section
Welcome Back!
Welcome to the second regional special section spotlighting China.
Hai Jin, Yuanchun Shi, Dahua Lin
Pages 40-42
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China Region special section: Hot topics
Innovations and Trends in China's Digital Economy
An examination of three digital start-ups which have become top domestic brands in their respective industries.
Fang Su, Xiao-Peng An, Ji-Ye Mao
Pages 44-47
Teaching Undergraduates to Build Real Computer Systems
To mitigate the gap between theory and practice, Chinese educators have spent the last decade focusing on teaching undergraduates to build real computer systems.
Chunfeng Yuan, Xiaopeng Gao, Yu Chen, Yungang Bao
Pages 48-49
Knowledgeable Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
The knowledgeable machine learning framework utilizes knowledge for language understanding in NLP.
Xu Han, Zhengyan Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu
Pages 50-51
AI+X Micro-Program Fosters Interdisciplinary Skills in China
The nature of artificial intelligence is interdisciplinary, and its power lies in augmenting its ability to accelerate research exponentially.
Fei Wu, Qinming He, Chao Wu
Pages 52-54
AI Start-Ups in China
Chinese AI start-ups have moved away from noisy bubbles and landed in an investment boom.
Jing Yang
Pages 55-56
Natural Interactive Techniques for the Detection and Assessment of Neurological Diseases
A look at recent advances in the use of natural user interface (NUI) for neurological disease detection and assessment.
Feng Tian, Yuntao Wang, Yicheng Zhu
Pages 57-59
Processing Extreme-Scale Graphs on China's Supercomputers
Enabling extreme-scale graph processing in two leading supercomputer architectures.
Yiming Zhang, Kai Lu, Wenguang Chen
Pages 60-63
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China Region special section: Big trends
The Present and Future of Mixed Reality in China
VR, AR, and the push to MR.
Guofeng Zhang, Xiaowei Zhou, Feng Tian, Hongbin Zha, Yongtian Wang, Hujun Bao
Pages 64-69
The Practice of Applying AI to Benefit Visually Impaired People in China
The tremendous development of information technology has brought challenges to the visually impaired in China.
Chun Yu, Jiajun Bu
Pages 70-75
Crowdsensing 2.0
Mobile crowdsensing, a new paradigm based on the power of user-companioned devices, is expected to play an important role in the coming digital economics era.
Zhiwen Yu, Huadong Ma, Bin Guo, Zheng Yang
Pages 76-80
The Practice of Speech and Language Processing in China
Several companies are trying push automatic speech recognition and other technologies past their current limitations.
Jia Jia, Wei Chen, Kai Yu, Xiaodong He, Jun Du, Heung-Yeung Shum
Pages 81-87
Blockchain in China
China underscores the critical role of blockchain technology in the new round of technological innovation and industrial transformation.
Liang Cai, Yi Sun, Zibin Zheng, Jiang Xiao, Weiwei Qiu
Pages 88-93
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Practice
What Went Wrong?
Why we need an IT accident investigation board.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Pages 94-96
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Contributed articles
There Is No AI Without Data
Industry experiences on the data challenges of AI and the call for a data ecosystem for industrial enterprises.
Christoph Gröger
Pages 98-108
Inferring and Improving Street Maps with Data-Driven Automation
Automatic map inference, data refinement, and machine-assisted map editing promises more accurate map datasets.
Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Satvat Jagwani, Edward Park, Sofiane Abbar, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Sanjay Chawla, Sam Madden, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi
Pages 109-117
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Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Finding the Sweet Spot Amid Accuracy and Performance
"Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service," by Alexandru Cristian et al., makes accessible an end-to-end cloud service that produces traffic-aware, real-time dispatching of agents under complex constraints.
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Page 120
Multi-Itinerary Optimization as Cloud Service
We describe multi-itinerary optimization, a novel Bing Maps service that automates the process of building itineraries for multiple agents while optimizing their routes to minimize travel time or distance.
Alexandru Cristian, Luke Marshall, Mihai Negrea, Flavius Stoichescu, Peiwei Cao, Ishai Menache
Pages 121-129
Technical Perspective: On Proofs, Entanglement, and Games
"MIP* = RE," by Zhengfeng Ji et al., studies quantum interactive proofs.
Dorit Aharonov, Michael Chapman
Page 130
MIP* = RE
In this work, we study a fourth modification to the notion of efficient verification that originates in the study of quantum entanglement.
Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, Henry Yuen
Pages 131-138
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Last byte
World of Hackcraft
An obsessive gamer's quest for the absolutely most significant computer ever.
William Sims Bainbridge
Pages 144-ff