Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
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Generally covering the broad topics of computing and related technology.
Computer Science Education Week 2023
Computer Science Education Week is an annual call to action to inspire k-12 students to learn computer science, advocate for equity, and celebrate the contributions of students, teachers, and partners to the field.
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
A chatbot prompt is a probe into the conversation of a crowd.
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Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid
Ensuring the billions of dollars governments sent the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.
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Let Us Not Put All Our Eggs in One Basket
But what about the overall environmental impacts of this growing infrastructure and the huge number of short-lived devices connected to it, or the indirect impacts on other sectors?
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Making Connections
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
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The U.S. v. Google: The Case That Will Determine the Future of Tech
Does Google have too much power? The United States government thinks so. A high stakes legal battle is taking place right now between the U.S. and the tech giant. Columbia law professor Tim Wu breaks it all down with Hari Sreenivasan.
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These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
If the funders, developers, and artists pushing NFTs and Web3 get their way, the media landscape will look very different from what it looks like now.
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Technology and Democracy
Computing has become highly important in everyday life during the past 75 years. In addition to its many benefits, however, it has also played a major role in driving societal polarization. The somber tone of ACM@75 appropriately recognized this.
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Changing the Nature of AI Research
The emergence of these large learned models is also changing the nature of AI research in fundamental ways.
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
While there are exceptions, the gap in concrete privacy solutions in policy reports is puzzling, as economists have argued that CBDC could make an essential difference in providing privacy in digital payments.
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Split Your Overwhelmed Teams
If your team is suffering from low morale and high stress, look at the cognitive load on the team, review its sources, and look for substantive changes that will have the desired impact. Splitting the team could be exactly what is needed.
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Considering the Impact of Technology on Society
Moshe Vardi on having the difficult conversation about technology and social responsibility.
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‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China
The Biden administration thinks it can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire?
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Shift happens: Writing about the history of keyboards
After discovering that a history of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones—had yet to be written, designer and typographer Marcin Wichary got to work.
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The inside story of New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO
Stacy Horn set out to create something new and very New York. She didn’t expect it to last so long.
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Learning to code isn’t enough
Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.
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How AI is helping historians better understand our past
The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession.
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Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence
Verified AI is the goal of achieving strong, ideally provable assurances of correctness and trustworthiness of AI systems with respect to mathematically specified requirements. Five challenge areas for verified AI: Environment modelling, Formal specification, Modeling learning systems, Scalable formal engines, and Correct-by-construction design.
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