The Power and Potential of Zero-Knowledge Proofs
ZKPs are a means of proving a statement while retaining privacy and ensuring information security.
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Harnessing AI, Behavioral Data Science for Smarter Consumer Platforms
Modern behavioral data science approaches treat every user interaction as a signal.
Clock Bait: Why The Moon Needs Its Own Time Zone
Clocks tick faster on the Moon, which over time could lead to timing errors that are too large to accept for safe lunar navigation or autonomous navigation.
An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf
Laziness is only one of two desirable properties for a bookshelf algorithm. The second is the ability to proactively respond to an adversary’s strategy.
Weighted ballots, abstained votes, and how to make your favored candidate win.
Advancements in Weather Prediction
The amount and quality of topographical, land use, land cover, coastline, and other data feeding forecasting models are leading to better predictions.
Homomorphic Technologies Could Process Still-Encrypted Data
Fully homomorphic encryption could stave off the security threats quantum computers pose to current encryption techniques.
Space-based datacenters would reduce the need for water, electricity, and other earth-based resources.
Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies
An overview of reconfigurable datacenter networks and their technological enablers.
From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Science with Humans in the Loop
Demonstrating how to have scientific rigor in developing a reliable prompt and getting a trustworthy response for a downstream application.
Storytelling is a strategic communication practice that enables us to craft narratives that make sense of complexity, clarify uncertainty, and connect data to decisions.
You Can Get There From Here (But It Really Makes a Mess of Things)
Technology isn't helping navigation apps address the problem of rerouting heavy traffic from highways to local roads.
Can We Measure the Impact of a Database?
The h-index can be extended to hierarchical structures, allowing the impact of authors and journals to be measured on a large class of databases and datasets.
Analytics Are A Full Stack Problem
Dashboards provide insight into operations and opportunities for improvement.
AI Transforms Medical Diagnostics
Generative AI tools are streamlining administrative tasks, enhancing clinical-decision support, and augmenting patient education.
Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions
The flexibility of ad hoc transactions is a double-edged sword, providing potential performance benefits but also increasing the risk of correctness issues.
Technical Perspective: Ad Hoc Transactions: What They Are and Why We Should Care
The paper by Tang et al. addresses important questions about ad hoc transactions.
The UGC Overload: Scaling Content Moderation for Massive Datasets
AI and ML have a role to play in moderating user-generated content in real time to keep sites safe, civilized, and legally compliant.
Researchers have invested immeasurable time and effort into programs that run and never halt.
Finding Beauty and Meaning in Computational Complexity
Irit Dinur’s appointment as the first woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Mathematics is at once historic and unremarkable.
Smaller models and datasets have emerged as an alternative without some of their larger cousins' drawbacks.
Self-Correction in Large Language Models
LLMs may be able to correct mistakes but they must first detect errors, which is a bottleneck at present.
R2T: Instance-Optimal Truncation for Differentially Private Query Evaluation with Foreign Keys
The first DP mechanism for answering arbitrary SPJA queries in a database with foreign-key constraints.
Technical Perspective: Toward Building a Differentially Private DBMS
The paper is an important step toward automatically ensuring privacy for arbitrary computations.
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