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Opinion Oct 1 2018

Hennessy and Patterson on the Roots of RISC

Awarding ACM's 2017 A.M. Turing Award to John Hennessy and David Patterson was richly deserved and long overdue. It would have been good if "Rewarded for RISC" (June 2018) had mentioned the contributions of John Cocke at IBM.

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Sep 1 2018

Hippie Values Really Did Build the Internet

Moshe Y. Vardi's column "How the Hippies Destroyed the Internet" (July 2018) sent me to my computer in shock where I was relieved to find that nobody has actually yet destroyed the Internet.

Opinion Aug 1 2018

Encourage ACM to Address U.S. Election Integrity

In the spirit of Moshe Y. Vardi's call for ACM to ". . . be more active in addressing social responsibility issues raised by computing technology," we urge the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council to undertake a study of the technological infrastructure for U.S. elections.

Opinion Jul 1 2018

Teach the Law (and the AI) ‘Foreseeability’

AI is a sort of idiot savant that can be unpredictably, and potentially, dangerously literal.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Jun 1 2018

When to Hold ‘Em

"Always Out of Balance" (April 2018) overstated (somewhat) the effect of intractability by claiming the intractability of computing Nash equilibrium necessitates researchers abandon this notion in favor of other competition-related ideas.

Computing Profession

Opinion May 1 2018

Get ACM (and Communications) Out of Politics

Recent editorial policy seems to have let ACM morph into what I would call the left-leaning ACM.

News May 1 2018

ACM’s 2018 General Election

Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association.

Computing Profession

Opinion Apr 1 2018

Predicting Failure of the University

Henry C. Lucas, Jr.'s Viewpoint "Technology and the Failure of the University" (Jan. 2018) was a tour de force of unfounded assertions.

Opinion Mar 1 2018

Keep the ACM Code of Ethics As It Is

The proposed changes to the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as discussed in "ACM Code of Ethics: A Guide for Positive Action" (Digital Edition, Jan. 2018), are generally misguided and should be rejected by the ACM membership.

Computing Profession

Opinion Feb 1 2018

Toward an Equation that Anticipates AI Risks

It is our darkest fears that actually protect us the most. Could AI intensify such fears to levels beyond what we already know?

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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