We should teach students directly, not expect them to discover for themselves. What should we be teaching directly?
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | November 7, 2018 at 01:29 PM
Rethinking the timeline of Computational Thinking to recognize several computer scientists in addition to Jeannette Wing.
Shuchi Grover From BLOG@CACM | November 5, 2018 at 01:17 PM
People are fundamental to a Scalable Intelligent System; there is no computer-only solution that can implement such a system.
Carl Hewitt From BLOG@CACM | October 22, 2018 at 12:48 PM
I have had the privilege of meeting, and in some cases closely interacting with, pioneer scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs, including Nobel, Fields,...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 21, 2018 at 02:44 AM
Does a super computer have a really big chip in it? Would we be more or less clever if computers had never been invented? These are the sorts of questions which...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | October 19, 2018 at 06:28 AM
Regarding the discovery of new documents about the H.W. Egli AG (Zurich) company in the Museum für Kommunikation, Berne, Switzerland.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | October 15, 2018 at 10:20 AM
Concurrency control for readers and writers in a database is a classic problem that illustrates the power of message passing.
Carl Hewitt From BLOG@CACM | October 1, 2018 at 09:26 AM
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | September 30, 2018 at 12:02 AM
This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between...Walid Saba From BLOG@CACM | September 16, 2018 at 08:32 PM
Summarizes popular programming languages and libraries that have been used for machine learning throughout the past two decades.
Philip Guo From BLOG@CACM | September 5, 2018 at 07:15 PM
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
Carl Hewitt From BLOG@CACM | September 5, 2018 at 01:14 PM
In 1897, ETH Zurich was the first university in the world to have a copy of the legendary four-species calculating machine Millionaire.
Herbert Bruderer From BLOG@CACM | August 24, 2018 at 11:44 AM
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
Yegor Bugayenko From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Questions of verification, safety, and trust must be central when we embody intelligence in physical systems.
Vijay Kumar From BLOG@CACM | August 20, 2018 at 11:35 AM