Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity
It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.
From BLOG@CACM
The Shortest Possible Schedule Theorem: Yes, You Can Throw Money at Software Deadlines
As close as we have to a universal law of software engineering management.
From BLOG@CACM
If We Want Women to Persist in Computing, Teach Them Programming – At Any Age
Two recent reports point to the important of teaching female students to program and that it's never "too late."
From BLOG@CACM
Vice Epistemology of the Internet
How can we apply virtue epistemology to the problem of fake news?
From BLOG@CACM
The African Enigma: Who Knows More?
Tally sticks and notched bones are among the oldest digital data carriers.
From BLOG@CACM
A Minuscule Percentage of Students Take High School Computer Science in the United States: Access Isn't Enough
Likely less than 4% of U.S. high school students take a computer science course.
From BLOG@CACM
The Autocracy of Autonomous Systems
We, as developers of such systems, need to take some conscious decisions to make sure we do not usher in the age of autocracy of autonomous systems.
From BLOG@CACM
We Should Stop Saying 'Language Independent.' We Don't Know How To Do That
We know how to make multi-lingual pseudocode-based assessments, not language-independent assessments.
From BLOG@CACM
Who Manufactured the Mysterious Chinese Android?
In the 18th century, there were several famous makers of automatons in Europe; who created the Chinese musical clock automaton figure?
From BLOG@CACM
Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
From BLOG@CACM
Lazy Developers Are the Best Developers
Lazy developers stick to the project scope while forcing the project team to understand and fix their own code and issues.
From BLOG@CACM
What Help Should We Provide to Students Learning to Program?
Insights from a recent Dagstuhl Seminar on "Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education."
From BLOG@CACM
Leonardo's Self-driving Car
Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, had already designed a self-driving car.
From BLOG@CACM
Hazardous Enthusiasm and How Eagerness Can Kill A Project
Many otherwise competent software developers and potential contributors end up being overwhelmed by "hazardous enthusiasm." They end up overwhelmed by their excitement...
From BLOG@CACM
Turing Lectures Open ACM FCRC
The Turing Lectures of 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were highlights of the welcome session of ACM FCRC.
From BLOG@CACM
A Design Perspective on Computational Thinking
Maybe we can just design away the need to teach computational thinking
From BLOG@CACM
How Do You Calculate with the Sector?
The sector was developed in the second half of the 16th century, and was in widespread use until the end of the 19th century,
From BLOG@CACM
Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
From BLOG@CACM