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Governance and Oversight Coming to AI and Automation: Independent Audit of AI Systems
Independent Audit of AI Systems is the next evolution of governance for artificial intelligence and automation.
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What Turing and Church Left Out
Concurrency control for readers and writers in a database is a classic problem that illustrates the power of message passing.
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Discovering Bugs, or Ensuring Success?
Finding errors is not the same as making certain a software product works correctly.
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Did We Just Replace the 'Knowledge Bottleneck' With a 'Data Bottleneck'?
In practice, it seems that avoiding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck has not resulted in any net gain.
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Just Press Reboot
Why does the press continue to talk about "computer problems"?
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
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Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
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What Makes a Program Elegant?
Most programmers would agree that some programs are elegant, and that elegant programs are better than others.
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Welcome to the 40th Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals in Phuket, Thailand
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming competition in the world.
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SC16 Adds Computational Reproducibility to Student Competition
SC16 has replaced the standard HPC benchmarks in its popular Student Cluster Competition with the task of reproducing the results of a recent HPC paper.
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A Week of HPC at SC15
ETH's Torsten Hoefler walks through a week of workshops, tutorials, papers, and his reactions to a week at SC.
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HPC Matters
The HPC Matters program is a multi-year effort to communicate the benefits — from the development of new medical therapies to and increased understanding of climate...
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SC Turns Reproducibility Challenges Into Opportunities
The annual SC conference is instituting new practices over the next five years that will help establish SC as the "gold standard" for computational science practice...
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The Robots Are Taking Over! (Perhaps Not Quite Yet)
Programs fix themselves! Today! It's scary!
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Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
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Learning About Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel and distributed computing are now in the core CS curriculum, and every CS program should be teaching their students about it. How can CS educators learn...
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Budget Beowulf Clusters
At SIGCSE 2015, five CS educators brought and live-demo'd the low-cost Beowulf clusters they had built for teaching parallel and distributed computing.
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Battling Bias
A regional Grace Hopper Celebration event this week focused on "advancing a gender diverse technology workforce in New York."
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