Communications of the ACM
July 2022
The Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science
07.05.2022Using Bayes' Theorem, the correct answer to both the medical diagnosis problem and to the lion classification question, can be …
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?
07.05.2022Most languages differ less in what they make possible, and more in terms of what they make easy.
Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
06.20.2022The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the …
The U.S. Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
07.06.2022Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but …
Measuring AI's Carbon Footprint
07.05.2022New tools track and reduce emissions from machine learning.
NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
07.05.2022Four additional algorithms are under consideration for inclusion in the …
On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying …
Brain Implants Get Real
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
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