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Research and Advances Jan 1 2018

Technical Perspective: Can High Performance Be Portable?

"Halide: Decoupling Algorithms from Schedules for High-Performance Image Processing" by Ragan-Kelley et al. on the image processing language Halide explores a substantially different approach to architecture-specific code optimization.

Manuel Chakravarty

Opinion Jan 1 2018

A Leap from Artificial to Intelligence

I am astonished that people who know what computers can do, and, especially, how they do it, still think we (humankind) will ever create a rational being, much less that the day is near.

CACM Staff

News Dec 19 2017

Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms

Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare all possible scenarios.

R. Colin Johnson

News Dec 18 2017

AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder

Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.

Joe Dysart

News Dec 7 2017

In Pursuit of an Artificial Brain

Researchers are creating artificial life to take thinking beyond the human realm; the approach could redefine artificial intelligence.

Samuel Greengard

Artist's conception of an artificial brain.

Research and Advances Dec 1 2017

Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment

Even when surrounded by ubiquitous computing, humans should be encouraged to do what they do better than machines.

Ramiro Montealegre and Wayne F. Cascio

Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment, illustration

News Dec 1 2017

Parallel Computational Thinking

Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Parallel Computational Thinking, illustration

News Dec 1 2017

Gaming Machine Learning

Game simulations are driving improvements in machine learning for autonomous vehicles and other devices.

Samuel Greengard

News Nov 28 2017

Battling AI Biases

Machine learning mimics human biases; addressing the problem is complicated.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial intelligence can become as biased as its programmers.

BLOG@CACM Nov 3 2017

The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?

Was the 1951 Paris conference "Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine" the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?

Herbert Bruderer

Research and Advances Nov 1 2017

Healthcare Robotics

Healthcare robotics can provide health and wellness support to billions of people.

Laurel D. Riek

Research and Advances Nov 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Exploring a Kingdom By Geodesic Measures

"The Heat Method for Distance Computation," by Crane, Weischedel, and Wardetzky, shows that the gradient of the probability density function of a random walk is parallel to geodesics.

Marc Alexa

Research and Advances Nov 1 2017

The Heat Method For Distance Computation

We introduce the heat method for solving the single- or multiple-source shortest path problem on both flat and curved domains.

Keenan Crane, Clarisse Weischedel, and Max Wardetzky

geodesic distance from a single point on a surface

Research and Advances Oct 1 2017

Barriers to Refactoring

Developers know refactoring improves their software, but many find themselves unable to do so when they want to.

Ewan Tempero, Tony Gorschek, and Lefteris Angelis

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2017

Manipulating Word Representations, and Preparing Students For Coding Jobs?

Robin K. Hill mulls an aspect of natural language processing research, while Mark Guzdial ponders why coding is taught in public schools.

Robin K. Hill and Mark Guzdial

Opinion Oct 1 2017

The Real Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Incidents from the early days of AI research are instructive in the current AI environment.

David Lorge Parnas

The Real Risks of Artificial Intelligence, illustration

Practice Sep 1 2017

The Calculus of Service Availability

You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.

Ben Treynor, Mike Dahlin, Vivek Rau, and Betsy Beyer

Opinion Sep 1 2017

All The Pretty Pictures

Alexei Efros, recipient of the 2016 ACM prize in computing, works to harness the power of visual complexity.

Leah Hoffmann

News Sep 1 2017

It’s All About Image

Image recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Researchers are discovering new ways to tackle the task without enormous datasets.

Samuel Greengard

It’s All About Image, illustrative photo

Opinion Sep 1 2017

Is That Social Bot Behaving Unethically?

A procedure for reflection and discourse on the behavior of bots in the context of law, deception, and societal norms.

Carolina Alves de Lima Salge and Nicholas Berente

Is That Social Bot Behaving Unethically? illustration

News Aug 24 2017

Robot the Musical

Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.

Samuel Greengard

Technology is pushing music into a new frontier.

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors

This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia For Spinnable Objects

In this article, we describe an algorithm to generate designs for spinning objects by optimizing their mass distribution.

Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Emily Whiting, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Linking Form, Function, and Fabrication

To avoid costly feedback loops between design, engineering, and fabrication, research in computer graphics has recently tried to incorporate key aspects of function and fabrication into an "intelligent" shape modeling process. A great example for this trend is depicted in "Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects."

Helmut Pottmann

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