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DEPARTMENT: Cerf's Up

Connectivity Is Everything

As the inventor of Ethernet, now ubiquitous in so many forms, Bob Metcalfe, the Turing Award Laureate for 2022, has earned the right to speak about connectivity.

Vinton G. Cerf

Page 5

DEPARTMENT: [email protected]

AI in the Enterprise

Doug Meil identifies the development behaviors that offer the highest chance of success for enterprise artificial intelligence efforts.

Doug Meil

Pages 6-7

COLUMN: News

Making Connections

Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.

Neil Savage

Pages 8-10

Better Algorithms through Faster Math

The search for new algorithms that could reduce the time needed for multiplication is now at the center of data science.

Samuel Greengard

Pages 11-13

Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT

Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.

Logan Kugler

Pages 14-16

Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid

Ensuring the billions of dollars governments send the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Pages 17-19

In Memoriam: William A. Wulf

Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.

Simson L. Garfinkel, Eugene H. Spafford

Pages 20-23

COLUMN: The Profession of IT

Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?

It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.

Peter J. Denning

Pages 24-27

COLUMN: Inside Risks

Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges

Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.

Peter G. Neumann

Pages 28-30

COLUMN: Kode Vicious

The Parchment Path?

Is there ever a time when learning is not of value—for its own sake?

George V. Neville-Neil

Pages 31-32

COLUMN: Historical Reflections

Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science

How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.

Thomas Haigh

Pages 33-37

COLUMN: Viewpoint

Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly

How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.

Micah D. Beck, Terry R. Moore

Pages 38-41

Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society

Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.

Emanuel Moss

Pages 42-44

Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications

Breaking down the blockchain.

Massimo Franceschet

Pages 45-47

SECTION: Practice

To PiM or Not to PiM

The case for in-memory inferencing of quantized CNNs at the edge.

Gabriel Falcao, João Dinis Ferreira

Pages 48-55

Taking Flight with Copilot

Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.

Christian Bird, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann, Nicole Forsgren, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Travis Lowdermilk, Idan Gazit

Pages 56-62

SECTION: Contributed Articles

The Silent (R)evolution of SAT

Today's powerful, robust SAT solvers have become primary tools for solving hard computational problems.

Johannes K. Fichte, Daniel Le Berre, Markus Hecher, Stefan Szeider

Pages 64-72

Buffer-Bloated Router? How to Prevent It and Improve Performance

Home broadband routers suffering bufferbloat can degrade the user experience when accessing the Internet.

Philippa Harrison

Pages 73-77

SECTION: Review Articles

Should Robots Have Rights or Rites?

A Confucian cross-cultural exploration of the ethical treatment of robots.

Tae Wan Kim, Alan Strudler

Pages 78-85

On the Implicit Bias in Deep-Learning Algorithms

Examining the implicit bias in training neural networks using gradient-based methods.

Gal Vardi

Pages 86-93

SECTION: Research Highlights

Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act

FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.

Alfons Kemper

Page 96

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the power of ACID transactions.

Jingyu Zhou, Meng Xu, Alexander Shraer, Bala Namasivayam, Alex Miller, Evan Tschannen, Steve Atherton, Andrew J. Beamon, Rusty Sears, John Leach, Dave Rosenthal, Xin Dong, Will Wilson, Ben Collins, David Scherer, Alec Grieser, Yang Liu, Alvin Moore, Bhaskar Muppana, Xiaoge Su, Vishesh Yadav

Pages 97-105

Technical Perspective: What Does Provable Security Mean for Cryptographic Schemes?

For a given cryptographic scheme, as perfect security is almost never achievable, one requires a computational assumption. Computational assumptions are some well-defined problems that are widely accepted as difficult.

David Pointcheval

Page 106

On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP

We reveal that in the interoperable world of OpenPGP, unforeseen cross-configuration attacks become possible.

Luca De Feo, Bertram Poettering, Alessandro Sorniotti

Pages 107-115

COLUMN: Last Byte

Still Networking

Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.

Leah Hoffmann

Pages 120-ff