The Ritual of Academic-Unit Review
Why is it that academic-unit reviews accomplish so little in spite of the significant effort both by the reviewed units and reviewing committees? There are three main reasons, I believe.
Moshe Y. Vardi
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The Moral Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
The big news on March 12 of this year was of the Go-playing AI-system AlphaGo securing victory against world champion Lee Se-dol. AlphaGo's victory is a stunning achievement and another milestone in the inexorable march of AI research.
Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans?
Are We Headed Toward Another Global Tech Bust?
Enrollments in computing-related undergraduate degree programs are booming. What is driving the enrollment boom is undoubtedly the global technology boom. We must remember, however, we have witnessed such booms in the past.
The Moral Hazard of Complexity-Theoretic Assumptions
In November 2015, the computing world was abuzz with the news that László Babai proved the Graph-Isomorphism Problem. If Babai’s result holds under scrutiny, it is likely to become one of the most celebrated results in theoretical computer science of the past several decades.
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.
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.
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!
The Future of Work: But What Will Humans Do?
Weighing in on the most consequential changes anticipated in the workplace.
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?
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