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The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the People Analytics Perspective: Part One
The case of a People Analytics Workshop for undergraduate computer science students.
From BLOG@CACM
Exponential Protests
Exponential organizations offer an appropriate organized structure for the current Israeli protest, and maybe for other cases of civil resistance.
From BLOG@CACM
Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong
It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.
From BLOG@CACM
The Hadoop Ecosystem's Continued Impact
Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
From BLOG@CACM
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
What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
From BLOG@CACM
Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4
We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.
From BLOG@CACM
Navigating the 2023 Cybersecurity Landscape
The importance of information security technologies cannot be overstated, given how deeply integrated gadgets have become in our lives.
From BLOG@CACM
Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff
Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.
From BLOG@CACM
Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics
Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.
From BLOG@CACM
How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science,...
From BLOG@CACM
Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms
The inherent risks associated with passwords stem from their very nature.
From BLOG@CACM
A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions
Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.
From BLOG@CACM
Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values
The FIRST ISRAEL organization is working to increase its presence in the Israeli geographic periphery by exploiting Israel's social orientation and its strength...
From BLOG@CACM
400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."
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Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk
"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things"—but we must try.
From BLOG@CACM
How Is History Shaping My Ph.D. Research? Unexpectedly!
Unexpected events can be viewed as good opportunities to gain new insights about a research topic.
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ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires....
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What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE...
From BLOG@CACM