DEPARTMENT:
Editor's letter
Computing's Grand Challenge for Sustainability
The computing community should embrace a grand challenge to reduce the carbon-emissions and environmental impact of computing in absolute terms dramatically, and if possible, to zero.
Andrew A. Chien
Page 5
DEPARTMENT:
Cerf's up
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.
Vinton G. Cerf
Page 7
DEPARTMENT:
BLOG@CACM
Driving an Innovation Contest into Crisis
Aleksandr Romanov considers how a lack of permanent leadership is impacting the InnovateFPGA contest.
Aleksandr Romanov
Pages 8-9
COLUMN:
News
Neurosymbolic AI
Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.
Don Monroe
Pages 11-13
In Memoriam: Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022
ACM Fellow and 1993 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Juris Hartmanis, co-inventor of complexity theory, died on July 29, 2022, at 94.
Simson Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford
Pages 14-15
Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks
Cybercriminals could be hiding malware payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software is unable to detect it.
Samuel Greengard
Pages 16-18
Applied AI Teaches Handwriting
In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?
Esther Shein
Pages 19-20
COLUMN:
Technology strategy and management
Data Platforms and Network Effects
How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.
Michael A. Cusumano
Pages 22-24
COLUMN:
Kode Vicious
Securing the Company Jewels
GitHub and runbook security.
George Neville-Neil
Pages 25-26
COLUMN:
Viewpoint
Storytelling and Science
Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.
Titus Barik, Sumit Gulwani, Mario Juarez
Pages 27-30
What's Your Placebo?
The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.
Ryan Bockmon, Stephen Cooper
Pages 31-33
SECTION:
Practice
Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.
Jenna Butler, Catherine Yeh
Pages 34-41
Linear Address Spaces
Unsafe at any speed.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Pages 42-44
SECTION:
Contributed articles
Creating a Revolutionary Academic Program
Overcoming the inherent challenges.
Umakishore Ramachandran, Zvi Galil
Pages 46-56
Assessing the Quantum-Computing Landscape
A summative assessment of quantum computing's progress, based on market readiness and investment levels, and its future implications.
Advait Deshpande
Pages 57-65
SECTION:
Review articles
Should Young Computer Scientists Stop Collaborating with Their Doctoral Advisors?
Factors that impact (positively and negatively) the advisor-advisee relationship.
Ariel Rosenfeld, Oleg Maksimov
Pages 66-72
SECTION:
Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification space.
Athina Markopoulou
Page 74
Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long short-term memory layers and convolutional neural networks.
Iman Akbari, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Leni Ven, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau, Stephane Tuffin
Pages 75-83
Technical Perspective: Achieve Big with Devices that Track Small Things
"AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking," by Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, and Shwetak Patel, details the AuraRing system's remarkable ability to sense user interactions at high granularities.
Yang Zhang
Page 84
AuraRing: Precise Electromagnetic Finger Tracking
We present AuraRing, a wearable magnetic tracking system designed for tracking fine-grained finger movement.
Farshid Salemi Parizi, Eric Whitmire, Shwetak Patel
Pages 85-92
COLUMN:
Last byte
Card Nim
Ordering the Nim sum.
Dennis Shasha
Page 96