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BLOG@CACM Dec 1 2015

What Do We Do When the Jobs Are Gone, and Why We Must Embrace Active Learning

Moshe Y. Vardi ponders the outlook for people when all work is automated, while Mark Guzdial emphasizes the importance of Active Learning in teaching computer science.

Opinion Dec 1 2015

On Lethal Autonomous Weapons

I suspect many computer scientists, like me, like to believe that, on the whole, computing benefits humanity. Thus, it is disturbing to realize computing is also making a major contribution to military technology.

Computing Applications

Communications Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi

Opinion Oct 1 2015

What Can Be Done About Gender Diversity in Computing?: A Lot!

The 2015 Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing is expected to bring together more than 12,000 — mostly female — computer scientists! But this impressive number should not be taken to mean all is well on the gender-diversity front. Far from it!

Computing Applications

Moshe Vardi, Communications of the ACM's Editor-in-Chief

BLOG@CACM Sep 11 2015

The Future of Work: But What Will Humans Do?

Weighing in on the most consequential changes anticipated in the workplace.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Aug 1 2015

Why Doesn’t ACM Have a SIG For Theoretical Computer Science?

In 1992, Yuri Gurevich wrote, "It is amazing, however, how different computer science is, especially theoretical computer science, in Europe and the U.S." How did such a sharp division arise between TCS in North America and Europe?

Computing Applications

Opinion May 1 2015

Incentivizing Quality and Impact in Computing Research

Developing consensus on how the computing-research publication culture should be changed has proven to be exceedingly hard. The Computing Research Association has now addressed this issue head-on in its new Best Practice Memo.

Computing Applications

Opinion Feb 1 2015

Is Information Technology Destroying the Middle Class?

While optimists argue that though technology always destroy jobs, it also creates new jobs, pessimists argue that the speed in which information technology is currently destroying jobs is unparalleled.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jan 1 2015

The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs

The news flashed last September that Microsoft Research closed down its Silicon Valley Lab. While the specifics may have been surprising, these actions are entirely consistent with the historical pattern of the rise and fall of industrial research labs.

Computing Applications

Opinion Sep 1 2014

Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?

A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Aug 1 2014

Openism, IPism, Fundamentalism, and Pragmatism

Ownership of intellectual property is fast becoming a battleground in the 21st century, with today's economy being increasingly driven by large corporations dependent on these intangible assets.

Computing Applications

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