DEPARTMENT:
Cerf's up
On Truth and Belief
I am certainly no philosopher, but as I observe the apparent erosion of agreement on factual evidence in our society. Somewhere along the line, critical thinking must be given the stature it deserves.
Vinton G. Cerf
Page 5
DEPARTMENT:
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Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?
Carlos Baquero on whether using artificial intelligence provides an unfair advantage to writers.
Carlos Baquero
Pages 6-7
COLUMN:
News
Quantum Computers and the Universe
Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.
Don Monroe
Pages 9-11
Swarm Robotics Moves Forward
Drawing inspiration from nature to enable complex behaviors.
Samuel Greengard
Pages 12-14
Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies
Digital technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holograms allow museums and other institutions to preserve historical events and tell stories in an engaging way.
Esther Shein
Pages 15-17
COLUMN:
The profession of IT
The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.
Peter J. Denning, John Arquilla
Pages 18-21
COLUMN:
Kode Vicious
The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project
Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.
George Neville-Neil
Pages 22-23
COLUMN:
Viewpoint
Can Universities Combat the 'Wrong Kind of AI'?
Seeking an artificial intelligence reset.
Devdatt Dubhashi
Pages 24-26
Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3
How distributed technologies could return more control to users.
Alex Pentland
Pages 27-29
Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.
L. A. Barroso, T. Choudhury, M. Gupta, O. Olukotun, R. A. Popa, D. Song, David A. Patterson
Pages 30-31
SECTION:
Practice
FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data
A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.
CACM Staff
Pages 34-41
CSRB's Opus One
Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Pages 42-44
SECTION:
Contributed articles
Subfield Prestige and Gender Inequality among U.S. Computing Faculty
A study of the intersections of gender, race, socioeconomic status, prestige, and subfield structure in computing.
Nicholas Laberge, K. Hunter Wapman, Allison C. Morgan, Sam Zhang, Daniel B. Larremore, Aaron Clauset
Pages 46-55
Producing Competent HPC Graduates
Employers seek recruits who can apply the knowledge, skill, and culture they acquire in college to solve problems as soon as they enter the workforce.
Juan Chen, Sheikh Ghafoor, John Impagliazzo
Pages 56-65
SECTION:
Turing lecture
The Evolution of Mathematical Software
Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.
Jack J. Dongarra
Pages 66-72
SECTION:
Review articles
How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?
A framework for aiding future Java mutation tool comparisons.
Domenico Amalfitano, Ana C. R. Paiva, Alexis Inquel, Luís Pinto, Anna Rita Fasolino, René Just
Pages 74-89
Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography
Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.
Ewa Nowara, Daniel Mcduff, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ashok Veeraraghavan
Pages 90-100
SECTION:
Research highlights
Technical Perspective: The 'Art' of Automatic Benchmark Extraction
"DIAMetrics," by Shaleen Deep et al., describes a versatile framework from Google for automatic extraction of benchmarks and their distributed execution and performance monitoring.
Peter Boncz
Page 104
DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale
This paper introduces DIAMetrics: a novel framework for end-to-end benchmarking and performance monitoring of query engines.
Shaleen Deep, Anja Gruenheid, Kruthi Nagaraj, Hiro Naito, Jeff Naughton, Stratis Viglas
Pages 105-112
COLUMN:
Last byte
Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI
Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.
Leah Hoffmann
Pages 120-ff