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Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
A look through the lens of neighbor discovery protocols reveals significant potential to improve electronic contact-tracing accuracy.
Delivering a Rapid Digital Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.
Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?
How do we measure progress towards CS for All?
Framing the Description of the Shrinking Pipeline
The shrinking pipeline refers to the low percentages of women earning computer science academic degrees and holding faculty positions.
Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities
Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.
AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease
3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.
The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion is not only an issue of fairness, but also of excellence; research consistently finds that diverse teams produce better results than non-diverse teams.
Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?
The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.
Michael A. Cusumano's October 2021 column, "Section 230 and a Tragedy of the Commons," contains some fundamental factual errors that further muddle a debate that already has been rife with inaccuracies.
What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
ACM Publications Finances for 2020
This annual update on ACM Publications finances summarizes income and expenses for the 2020 calendar year.
Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning
What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to 13-15 year olds through situations/issues set in the context of cybersecurity in ways that "lift the hood" on how ML models are designed, how they they work, and the impact of human decisions in this process.
Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
Major Investments in U.S. CS Education on the Long Road to CS for All
The 2021 CSEdCon featured big investments in growing Computer Science Education in the U.S.
Safe AI in Education Needs You
Artificial intelligence is coming to your learners and will raise challenging issues that need experts like you. Learn how you can get involved in AI and Educational Policy.
Reinforcing Computer Science Education
What do computer science students need to know to be successful in industry?
The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences
The current computing-research publication system conflates research publishing with community building. We may need in-person conferences for community building, but not so many!
Grace Hopper, Minicomputers, and Megabytes: It's a Fun Career
In 1963, the British government decided to make the world's most powerful computer. The manufacturer, Ferranti, asked would-be buyers to send their best programmers to help. Kodak sent me.
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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