DEPARTMENT:
Cerf's Up
On Expert Testimony
The role of ACM members, as professionals in the computing realm, makes them candidates for the provision of expert testimony in both criminal and civil judicial proceedings.
Vinton G. Cerf
Page 5
DEPARTMENT:
BLOG@CACM
Comparing Chatbots Trained in Different Languages
Antony Chayka and Andrei Sukhov examine how training chatbots in English or Russian affects their responses.
Antony Chayka, Andrei Sukhov
Pages 6-7
COLUMN:
News
Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
Chris Edwards
Pages 8-10
Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive
A battle over "truth and who has access to it in the digital age."
Esther Shein
Pages 11-12
Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
Neil Savage
Pages 13-14
COLUMN:
Opinion
Thus Spake ChatGPT
On the reliability of AI-based chatbots for science communication.
Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Pages 16-19
Why Is the Current XAI Not Meeting the Expectations?
Seeking better explanations for how algorithmic decisions are made.
Alessio Malizia, Fabio Paternò
Pages 20-23
COLUMN:
The Profession of IT
A Clash of Civilizations
The much-sought holy grail of more and faster innovation will come from integrating pipeline thinking and adoption thinking.
Peter J. Denning, Todd W. Lyons
Pages 24-26
COLUMN:
Kode Vicious
Halfway Around the World
Learn the language, meet the people, eat the food.
George V. Neville-Neil
Pages 27-28
COLUMN:
Opinion
A Strategy for Scaling Advanced Analytics
Key elements for scaling advanced analytics.
Mikael Berndtsson, Anna-Carin Jonsson, Magnus Carlsson, Thomas Svahn
Pages 29-31
Five Ways Executives Misunderstand Technology
How executives might better understand technology.
Stephen Andriole
Pages 32-34
COLUMN:
Historical Reflections
There Was No 'First AI Winter'
Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.
Thomas Haigh
Pages 35-39
SECTION:
Practice
Pointers in Far Memory
Rethinking how data and computations should be organized.
Ethan L. Miller, George Neville-Neil, Achilles Benetopoulos, Pankaj Mehra, Daniel Bittman
Pages 40-45
How Flexible Is CXL's Memory Protection?
Replacing a sledgehammer with a scalpel.
Samuel W. Stark, A. Theodore Markettos, Simon W. Moore
Pages 46-51
SECTION:
Research
Data Analytics Anywhere and Everywhere
Mobile, ubiquitous, and immersive computing appear poised to transform visualization, data science, and data-driven decision making.
Niklas Elmqvist
Pages 52-63
Theoretical Analysis of Edit Distance Algorithms
To what extent have the techniques for theoretical analysis of edit distance algorithms achieved their goals?
Paul Medvedev
Pages 64-71
When Two Cameras Are a Crowd
Understanding and handling interference across multiple active cameras.
Jongho Lee, Mohit Gupta, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, Suman Banerjee
Pages 72-82
SECTION:
Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: Maximum Flow through a Network: A Storied Problem and a Groundbreaking Solution
"Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow," by Li Chen et al., comes within striking distance of answering the question: "Does maximum flow have a scalable algorithm?"
Shang-Hua Teng
Page 84
Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow
We present an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with m edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities in m1+o(1) time.
Li Chen, Rasmus Kyng, Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Sushant Sachdeva
Pages 85-92
COLUMN:
Last Byte
Ulterior Motives
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements during her career.
Leah Hoffmann
Pages 96-ff