Communications of the ACM.

Includes bibliographical references.

What do DDT and computing have in common? -- Safety proposal points in same direction -- Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Detecting/preventing infections, and moving instruction online -- An animating spirit -- Leveraging unlabeled data -- Seeing through walls -- Hiring from the autism spectrum -- How to curtail oversensing in the home -- Kode vicious plays in traffic -- Technology adoption -- Studying programming in the neuroage: just a crazy idea? -- AI and accessibility -- Commit to memory -- Communicate using the numbers 1, 2, 3, and more -- Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space -- The 'invisible' materiality of information technology -- Contextual word representations: putting words into computers -- Street lamps as a platform -- Technical perspective: Algorithm selection as a learning problem -- Data-driven algorithm design -- Attaining the third dimension.

[Article Title: What do DDT and computing have in common? / Andrew A. Chien, Pages 5-6] ;[Article Title: Safety proposal points in same direction / CACM Staff, p. Page 6] ;[Article Title: Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic / Vinton G. Cerf, Page 7] ;[Article Title: Detecting/preventing infections, and moving instruction online / Terrence DeFranco and Jeremy Roschelle, Pages 8-9] Abstract: The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.;[Article Title: An animating spirit / Neil Savage, Pages 10-12] Abstract: ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work. ;[Article Title: Leveraging unlabeled data / Chris Edwards, Pages 13-14] Abstract: Deep learning looks for better pretexts.;[Article Title: Seeing through walls / Neil Savage, Pages 15-16] Abstract: Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.;[Article Title: Hiring from the autism spectrum / Esther Shein, Pages 17-19] Abstract: Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.;[Article Title: How to curtail oversensing in the home / Connor Bolton, Kevin Fu, Josiah Hester, and Jun Han, Pages 28-30] Abstract: Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.;[Article Title: Kode vicious plays in traffic / George V. Neville-Neil, Pages 25-26] Abstract: With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.;[Article Title: Technology adoption / Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis, Pages 27-29] Abstract: The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.;[Article Title: Studying programming in the neuroage: just a crazy idea? / Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, André Brechmann, Chris Parnin, and Sven Apel, Pages 30-34] Abstract: Programming research has entered the Neuroage.;[Article Title: AI and accessibility / Meredith Ringel Morris, Pages 35-37] Abstract: A discussion of ethical considerations.;[Article Title: Commit to memory / Jessie Frazelle, Pages 38-41] Abstract: Chipping away at Moore's Law.;[Article Title: Communicate using the numbers 1, 2, 3, and more / Thomas A. Limoncelli, Pages 56-61] Abstract: Leveraging expectations for better communication.;[Article Title: Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space / Moritz Lipp, and 11 others, Pages 46-56] Abstract: Lessons learned from Meltdown's exploitation of the weaknesses in today's processors.;[Article Title: The 'invisible' materiality of information technology / Alan Borning, Batya Friedman, and Nick Logler Pages 56-64] Abstract: It's difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.;[Article Title: Contextual word representations: putting words into computers / Pages 66-74] Abstract: Advances in how programs treat natural language words have a big impact in AI.;[Article Title: Street lamps as a platform / Max Mühlhäuser, and six others, Page 75-83] Abstract: Strategically augmented street lamps can become the key enabling technology in smart cities.;[Article Title: Technical perspective: Algorithm selection as a learning problem / Avrim Blum, Page 86] ;[Article Title: Data-driven algorithm design / Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden, Pages 87-94] Abstract: The best algorithm for a computational problem generally depends on the "relevant inputs," a concept that depends on the application domain and often defies formal articulation.;[Article Title: Attaining the third dimension / Leah Hoffmann, Pages 96-ff] Abstract: ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional imagery to computer graphics.