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DEPARTMENT: Departments

Technology and Democracy

Computing has become highly important in everyday life during the past 75 years. In addition to its many benefits, however, it has also played a major role in driving societal polarization.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Page 5

DEPARTMENT: Career paths in computing

The Making of an IT Strategy Consultant

Years ago, my mentor asked me how I envisioned my career. I replied, "It's important that my work is fun." She replied rather dryly, "You can't live off fun, Kristian."

Kristian Sørensen

Page 7

COLUMN: Point/counterpoint

On the Model of Computation: Point: We Must Extend Our Model of Computation to Account for Cost and Location

We must extend our model of computation to account for cost and location.

William Dally

Pages 30-32

On the Model of Computation: Counterpoint: Parallel Programming Wall and Multicore Software Spiral: Denial Hence Crisis

Parallel programming wall and multicore software spiral: Denial hence crisis.

Uzi Vishkin

Pages 32-34

SECTION: Research highlights

Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios

"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely new perspective.

Falko Dressler

Page 82

Technical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security Measures

"Measuring Security Practices," by Louis F. DeKoven et al., provide a unique perspective into how users choose to implement common security advice in practice.

Nicolas Christin

Page 92

Measuring Security Practices

This paper seeks to make progress on the prevalence of popular security practices and their relationship to security outcomes via the longitudinal empirical measurement of a large population of computer devices.

Louis F. DeKoven, Audrey Randall, Ariana Mirian, Gautam Akiwate, Ansel Blume, Lawrence K. Saul, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage

Pages 93-102

Polymorphic Wireless Receivers

We introduce PolymoRF, a deep learning-based polymorphic receiver able to reconfigure itself in real time based on the inferred waveform parameters.

Francesco Restuccia, Tommaso Melodia

Pages 83-91

COLUMN: Last byte

Advancing the Ability of Robots to Help

ACM Athena Lecturer Ayanna Howard considers the benefits of robotics and the potential drawbacks of overtrust.

Leah Hoffmann

Pages 104-ff

DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM

Changing the Nature of AI Research

Subbarao Kambhampati considers how artificial intelligence may be straying from its roots.

Subbarao Kambhampati

Pages 8-9

COLUMN: News

How AI Is Driving the Esports Boom

Artificial intelligence is helping the esports industry take the world by storm.

Logan Kugler

Pages 17-18

Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners

Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.

Chris Edwards

Pages 11-13

Looking past 5G to sixth-generation wireless technology.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Pages 14-16

COLUMN: Law and technology

These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For

Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.

Andres Guadamuz

Pages 20-22

COLUMN: Security

Security by Labeling

Protecting and empowering the digital consumer.

Andreas Kuehn

Pages 23-25

COLUMN: The profession of IT

The Atlas Milestone

Celebrating virtual memory, which has made such a difference in how we approach programming, memory management, and secure computing.

Peter Denning, Roland Ibbett

Pages 26-29

COLUMN: Viewpoint

Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket

Toward new research directions in computer science.

Florence Maraninchi

Pages 35-37

SECTION: Practice

What to know now and for the future.

Alexandros Gazis, Eleftheria Katsiri

Pages 38-42

Persistence Programming

Are we doing this right?

Archie L. Cobbs

Pages 43-47

SECTION: Contributed articles

Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

Lessons from a pandemic.

Carmela Troncoso, Dan Bogdanov, Edouard Bugnion, Sylvain Chatel, Cas Cremers, Seda Gürses, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Dennis Jackson, James R. Larus, Wouter Lueks, Rui Oliveira, Mathias Payer, Bart Preneel, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Marcel Salathé, Theresa Stadler, Michael Veale

Pages 48-57

Deconstructing the Bakery to Build a Distributed State Machine

A rigorous journey from the bakery algorithm to a distributed state machine.

Leslie Lamport

Pages 58-66

SECTION: Review articles

When SDN and Blockchain Shake Hands

A survey of recent efforts to combine SDN and BC shows promising results and points to directions for future research.

Majd Latah, Kubra Kalkan

Pages 68-78