January 2025 – Communications of the ACM

1. AAC with Automated Vocabulary from Photographs: Insights from School and Speech-Language Therapy Settings

   A mobile application can generate situation-specific communication boards automatically from photographs.

2. Technical Perspective: Can AI Keep Accessible Communication in the Picture?

   Recent research explores how AI can use photos to support communication, especially for people with communication impairments.

3. Cylinder Lottery

   Shifting the mix.

4. Connecting the Unconnected

   The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.

5. Is It Math or CS? Or Is It Both?

   Igor Markov's “Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement” in the November 2024 Communications looks at two non-peer-reviewed papers and makes baseless allegations of scientific integrity issues, all already found to be without merit.