March 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 3

Features

Opinion Departments Mar 1 2020

Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession–But to What End?

It is time to revisit and update the purpose of ACM. It must be "to advance the science and profession of computing for the public good."

Moshe Y. Vardi

Computing Profession

Opinion Letters to the editor Mar 1 2020

Conferences and Carbon Impact

Moshe Vardi suggests in his January 2020 column that ACM conferences do more to support remote participation. I have several concerns about his proposals.

CACM Staff

Computing Profession

BLOG@CACM Mar 1 2020

Coding for Voting

Robin K. Hill explains the ethical responsibility of the computing professional with respect to voting systems.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Applications

News Mar 1 2020

Can Nanosheet Transistors Keep Moore’s Law Alive?

The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.

Samuel Greengard

Architecture and Hardware

News Mar 1 2020

Algorithms to Harvest the Wind

Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.

Don Monroe

Computing Profession

News Mar 1 2020

Across the Language Barrier

Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Waverly Labs Ambassador translation device

Opinion Education Mar 1 2020

Computing and Community in Formal Education

Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities.

Michael Lachney and Aman Yadav

Computing Profession

image from Cornrow Curves visual programming application

Opinion The profession of IT Mar 1 2020

Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has confronted us with a raft of dilemmas that challenge us to decide what values are important in our designs.

Peter J. Denning and Dorothy E. Denning

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2020

Through the Lens of a Passionate Theoretician

Considering the far-reaching and fundamental implications of computing beyond digital computers.

Omer Reingold

Computing Profession

light emanating from an open book, illustration

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2020

Four Internets

Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.

Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall

Computing Profession

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2020

Unsafe At Any Level

The U.S. NHTSA's levels of automation are a liability for automated vehicles.

Marc Canellas and Rachel Haga

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

man in driver's seat of autonomous vehicle looks at cellphone

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2020

Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon

Balancing sustainability and science.

Benjamin C. Pierce, Michael Hicks, Crista Lopes, and Jens Palsberg

Computing Applications

man holds poster featuring carbon-neutral icons

Practice Mar 1 2020

Securing the Boot Process

The hardware root of trust.

Jessie Frazelle

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mar 1 2020

Above the Line, Below the Line

The resilience of Internet-facing systems relies on what is above the line of representation.

Richard I. Cook

Computing Applications

one arrow pointing up, another pointing down

Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2020

Crowdsourcing Moral Machines

A platform for creating a crowdsourced picture of human opinions on how machines should handle moral dilemmas.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

autonomous vehicle identifies pedestrians

Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2020

Spotify Guilds

When the value increases engagement, engagement increases the value.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Contributed articles Mar 1 2020

The BBC micro:bit – From the U.K. to the World

A codable computer half the size of a credit card is inspiring students worldwide to develop core computing skills in fun and creative ways.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Review articles Mar 1 2020

Editing Self-Image

Technologies for manipulating our digital appearance alter the way the world sees us as well as the way we see ourselves.

Ohad Fried, Jennifer Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein, and Maneesh Agrawala

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Review articles Mar 1 2020

Toward Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation

Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.

Computing Profession

Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2020

Technical Perspective: A Perspective on Pivot Tracing

Instead of handing trace records off to a collector for long-term storage and future processing, the system described in "Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems," by Jonathan Mace, et al., installs continuous queries, on demand, inside the distributed system itself.

Rebecca Isaacs

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Research highlights Mar 1 2020

Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems

This paper presents Pivot Tracing, a monitoring framework for distributed systems, which addresses the limitations of today's monitoring and diagnosis tools by combining dynamic instrumentation with a novel relational operator: the happened-before join.

Jonathan Mace, Ryan Roelke, and Rodrigo Fonseca

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Last byte Mar 1 2020

Stopping Tyranny

A compromise proposal toward a solution to making it impossible for a would-be tyrant to exceed reasonable authority.

Dennis Shasha

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