DEPARTMENT:
Cerf's Up
Scaffolding as Catalyst
As with the huge hotel and condo complex being constructed adjacent to the building where my office is located, tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can …
Vinton G. Cerf
Page 5
DEPARTMENT:
[email protected]
Hoping for the Best as AI Evolves
Gary Marcus on the systems that "pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society."
Gary Marcus
Pages 6-7
COLUMN:
News
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
Finding novel materials needs more than pure machine learning.
Don Monroe
Pages 9-11
AI Rewrites Coding
Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.
Samuel Greengard
Pages 12-14
. . . And the Computer Plays Along
Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.
Esther Shein
Pages 15-17
DEPARTMENT:
ACM Publications Finances
ACM Publications Finances for 2021
One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its …
Wendy Hall, Divesh Srivastava, Scott E. Delman
Pages 18-19
COLUMN:
Technology Strategy and Management
Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.
Mari Sako
Pages 20-23
COLUMN:
Kode Vicious
All Sliders to the Right
Hardware overkill.
George V. Neville-Neil
Pages 24-25
COLUMN:
Economic and Business Dimensions
Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
Marshall Van Alstyne, Michael D. Smith, Herbert Lin
Pages 26-28
COLUMN:
Viewpoint
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.
David Ott, Kenny Paterson, Dennis Moreau
Pages 29-32
Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience
Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.
Igor Linkov, Alexandre Ligo, Kelsey Stoddard, Beatrice Perez, Andrew Strelzoffx, Emanuele Bellini, Alexander Kott
Pages 33-37
Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
David A. Patterson
Page 38
SECTION:
Practice
OCCAM-v2: Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-Program Specialization
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis.
Jorge A. Navas, Ashish Gehani
Pages 40-47
OSS Supply-Chain Security: What Will It Take?
A discussion with Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, and Chris McCubbin
Maya Kaczorowski, Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, Chris McCubbin
Pages 48-54
SECTION:
Contributed Articles
Protecting Autonomous Cars from Phantom Attacks
Enabling object detectors to better distinguish between real and fake objects in semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.
Ben Nassi, Yisroel Mirsky, Jacob Shams, Raz Ben-Netanel, Dudi Nassi, Yuval Elovici
Pages 56-69
Eight Reasons to Prioritize Brain-Computer Interface Cybersecurity
Defining and analyzing the impact of cyberattacks on novel generations of BCIs.
Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Gregorio Martínez Pérez
Pages 68-78
SECTION:
Review Articles
Mechanical Mathematicians
A new generation of automatic theorem provers eliminate bugs in software and mathematics.
Alexander Bentkamp, Jasmin Blanchette, Visa Nummelin, Sophie Tourret, Petar Vukmirović, Uwe Waldmann
Pages 80-90
SECTION:
Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: On Abstractions and Embedded Networks
"Symbol-Synchronous Buses," by Jonathan Oostvogels et al., conceives a notion of a symbol-synchronous bus, which effectively makes a multi-hop wireless network behave like a single wire.
Luca Mottola
Page 92
Symbol-Synchronous Buses: Deterministic, Low-Latency Wireless Mesh Networking with LEDs
We describe a novel networking paradigm that aims to enable a new class of latency-sensitive applications by systematically breaking networking abstractions.
Jonathan Oostvogels, Fan Yang, Sam Michiels, Danny Hughes
Pages 93-101
COLUMN:
Last Byte
Cooperation in the Commons
Seeking a solution to a bovine calculation situation.
Dennis Shasha
Pages 104-ff