Are You Confident in Your Backups?
The importance of data backups cannot be overestimated. Backups are essential for reducing the harm from hardware failures and lessening the effects of various hacker attacks, with ransomware being...
View ArticleEpigenomics Now
For nearly a quarter-century, we have had a (mostly) complete listing of the human genome, the three-billion “letter” sequence of DNA, most of which is the same for all of us. This reference copy...
View ArticleAchievement in Microarchitecture
David Papworth, recipient of the 2022 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award, accepted a big job in 1990 when he joined Intel’s P6 microprocessor team as lead designer. The...
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On Specifying for Trustworthiness
Autonomous systems (AS) are systems that involve software applications, machines, and people—that is, systems that can take action with little or no human supervision.34 Soon, AS will no longer be...
View ArticleProtecting Life-Saving Medical Devices From Cyberattack
https://bit.ly/3tP74ae September 12, 2023 Smart medical gadgets are crucial for keeping people alive and healthy. From wearables that keep an eye on your heart rate all day to heart pumps and big...
View ArticleGovernments Are Spying on Your Push Notifications
We all get push notifications on our smartphones, but we don’t all feel the same about them. Some of us find them helpful, like when we’re pinged that our Amazon package has arrived. Some of us get so...
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The Role of Autonomous Machine Computing in Shaping the Autonomy Economy
The Autonomy Economy represents a transformative phase in our society, driven by the integration of autonomous machines such as autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, drones, and more into the...
View ArticleThe State of the Metaverse
After its ascension as one of the tech darlings of 2022, the metaverse took a major backseat to generative AI and ChatGPT last year. Yet, while still in a nascent phase, enterprise projects are...
View ArticleTechnical Perspective: Bridging AI with Real-Time Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models are making progress at an unprecedented rate and have achieved remarkable performance in several specific tasks such as image classification,...
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Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines
1. Introduction Algorithmic priority inversion plagues modern mission-critical machine inference pipelines such as those implementing perception modules in autonomous drones and self-driving cars. We...
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