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Opinion Sep 1 2016

Academic rankings, in general, provide highly misleading ways to inform academic decision making by individuals. Using such rankings for academic decision making is letting third-party business interests influence our academic values.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jul 1 2016

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.

Computing Applications

Opinion May 1 2016

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.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Communications Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi

News Apr 11 2016

Are robots taking our jobs?

Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans?

Computing Profession

Opinion Apr 1 2016

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.

Computing Profession

Opinion Feb 1 2016

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.

Computing Applications

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

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

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