GLOM: Teaching Computers to See the Way(s) We Do
Geoffrey Hinton wants to design neural networks so they have different ways of seeing the same thing.
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Mining Financial Data Without Actually Seeing It Can Detect Fraud
Multiparty Computation permits computation on encrypted values.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to make it rain in the desert, a first step toward controlling the weather.
How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds
The ability to discover and experience world building is a relatively unique privilege afforded to computer programmers.
Security Done Right Can Make Smart Cities Wise
Seeking security improvements for smart cities.
Exploring Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine' and AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
Back-of-the-envelope calculations are a powerful professional practice.
Testing Educational Digital Games
Diversifying usability studies utilizing rapid application development.
Should two private companies have complete control over the world's cellphones?
Integrating ethics into artificial intelligence education and development.
Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
A discussion of concerns on quantum vulnerability for the automobile industry.
Managing IT Professional Turnover
Organizational distrust, not compensation, is more likely to send IT pros packing.
The June 2021 Communications of the ACM celebrates Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho as winners of ACM's 2020 Turing Award. For many Iranian members of the computing community, Ullman is the face of discrimination in academia.
Technical Perspective: Does Your Experiment Smell?
"PlanAlyzer," by Emma Tosch et al., details PlanAlyzer software, the first tool to statically check the validity of online experiments.
PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments
We present the first approach for checking the internal validity of online experiments statically, that is, from code alone.
Playing With, and Against, Computers
2019 ACM Computing Prize recipient David Silver on developing the AlphaGo algorithm, his fascination with Go, and on teaching computers to play.
Updating emergency rescue equipment and tactics with digital technologies.
Protecting Enterprise Use of IoT
How to strengthen the security of the Internet of Things in organizations.
Mathematician Martin Jackson is known for his work on Hilbert's Tenth Problem, among other things.
U.S. AI Policy Still Effectively A Closed Box
Expect a tapestry of federal, state and local policies to take shape.
Quantum Computing with Exponentially Fewer Errors
A procedure tested on Google's Sycamore quantum processor demonstrates the next practical level of error correction.
The Role of Computer Science in Elite Higher Education: Seeing the Expert Blind Spot
CS has an important role in preparing elite scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.
Programmable Trap Can Kill Viruses
Computational genetic engineering has enabled a method of "trapping" and killing viruses.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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