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Viewpoints
20 Inside Risks
Risks of Cryptocurrencies
Considering the inherent risks
of cryptocurrency ecosystems.
By Nicholas Weaver
25 The Profession of IT
An Interview with Dave Parnas
A discussion of ideas
about software engineering.
By Peter J. Denning
28 Kode Vicious
Watchdogs vs. Snowflakes
Taking wild guesses.
By George V. Neville-Neil
30 Viewpoint
Effectiveness of Anonymization
in Double-Blind Review
Assessing the effectiveness of
anonymization in the review process.
By Claire Le Goues, Yuriy Brun,
Sven Apel, Emery Berger,
Sarfraz Khurshid,
and Yannis Smaragdakis
Departments
5 Cerf’s Up
Celebrating Excellence
By Vinton G. Cerf
6 Letters to the Editor
When to Hold ‘Em
8 BLOG@CACM
Programming Programming
Languages, and Analyzing
Facebook’s Failure
Mark Guzdial considers an idea
with significant educational
implications, while Susan Landau
looks into the Cambridge
Analytica/Facebook scandal.
29 Calendar
100 Careers
Last Byte
104 Q&A
RISC Management
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients
John Hennessy and David Patterson
have introduced generations
of students to Reduced
Instruction Set Computing.
By Leah Hoffmann
News
10 Rewarded for RISC
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients
David Patterson and John Hennessy
developed the “dangerous” idea that
software should be simpler so it can
be executed more quickly, which
evolved into the Reduced Instruction
Set Computer architecture.
By Neil Savage
13 Deep Learning Hunts
for Signals Among the Noise
Neural networks can deliver
surprising, and sometimes
unwanted, results.
By Chris Edwards
15 3D Sensors Provide Security,
Better Games
A variety of techniques allow
sensors to locate and recognize
objects in space.
By Keith Kirkpatrick
18 Getting Hooked on Tech
Are technology companies
maximizing profits by making
users addicted to their products?
By Logan Kugler
Watch Patterson
and Hennessy discuss
their work in this exclusive
Communications video.
https://cacm.acm.org/videos/
2017-acm-turing-award
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