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Association for Computing Machinery
Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
Departments
5 Informatics Europe and
ACM Europe Council
Regulating Automated
Decision Making
By James Larus and Chris Hankin
7 Cerf’s Up
Traceability
By Vinton G. Cerf
10 Letters to the Editor
Encourage ACM to Address
U.S. Election Integrity
12 BLOG@CACM
Assessing Responsibility
for Program Output
We lack an easy way to indicate
that algorithms do not make
decisions and are not biased;
programmers do, and are.
25 Calendar
93 Careers
Last Byte
96 Future Tense
Deadlock
Upgraded with new instructions,
my AI aims to debug its original
programmer, along with
his home planet.
By William Sims Bainbridge
News
14 Animals Teach Robots
to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates
bio-machine symbiosis.
By Chris Edwards
17 Electronics Are Leaving the Plane
Stacking chips and connecting them
vertically increases both speed
and functionality.
By Don Monroe
19 Broadening the Path
for Women in S TEM
Organizations work to address
‘a notable absence of women
in the field.’
By Esther Shein
Viewpoints
22 Global Computing
Designing Sustainable Rural
Infrastructure Through the Lens
of OpenCellular
Understanding the unique
local context, as well as technical
considerations, are essential
components of successful
project deployment.
By Kashif Ali and Kurtis Heimerl
26 Education
Providing Equitable Access
to Computing Education
Seeking the best measures to reach
advantaged and less-advantaged
students equally.
By Mark Guzdial and Amy Bruckman
29 Kode Vicious
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Cache is king. And if your cache
is cut, you are going to feel it.
By George V. Neville-Neil
31 Point/Counterpoint
Democracy and E-Democracy
A discussion of the possibility
of supplanting traditional
representative democracy
with e-democracy.
By Ehud Shapiro/Douglas Schuler
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