Education – Page 5 – Communications of the ACM

BLOG@CACM May 9 2023

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 in STEM education.

Orit Hazzan and Zafit Lukach

News May 1 2023

Women in Computer Science Are Making Strides

Computer science is still not a level playing field for those women who majored in it and choose to pursue it as a career.

Esther Shein

Opinion May 1 2023

Do the Right Thing

Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.

Kendra Albert and James Grimmelmann

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Opinion May 1 2023

Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects

Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.

Careers May 1 2023

Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers

Reaching out across computer science research communities.

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Careers May 1 2023

A Career Built on Using Technology to Help Others

Everyone deserves the access and opportunity to have a good and fulfilling life. Technologies can only contribute toward this goal when they are designed from an understanding of what makes a life good for the people concerned.

Jules Maitland

Opinion May 1 2023

NSF on Chien’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability

This Viewpoint focuses on ways the computing community can contribute broadly to environmental sustainability and identifies NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering research programs supporting these efforts.

Nina Amla, Dilma Da Silva, Michael Littman, and Manish Parashar

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Opinion May 1 2023

ACM for the Public Good

The ACM 4.0 Initiative aims to lay the foundations of ACM for the next 25 years on issues of service to society and to ACM members, ACM membership, ACM finances, and internal processes.

Moshe Y. Vardi

BLOG@CACM Apr 19 2023

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.

Yael Erez

News Apr 1 2023

. . . And the Computer Plays Along

Software can improvise on the spot to accompany the performance of live musicians.

Esther Shein

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News Apr 1 2023

ACM Publications Finances for 2021

One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its publications and the services it provides to the community.

Wendy Hall, Divesh Srivastava, and Scott E. Delman

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Research and Advances Apr 1 2023

Protecting Autonomous Cars from Phantom Attacks

Enabling object detectors to better distinguish between real and fake objects in semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.

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Opinion Apr 1 2023

Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech

Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.

Marshall Van Alstyne, Michael D. Smith, and Herbert Lin

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Opinion Apr 1 2023

Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly

A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.

David A. Patterson

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Research and Advances Apr 1 2023

Eight Reasons to Prioritize Brain-Computer Interface Cybersecurity

Defining and analyzing the impact of cyberattacks on novel generations of BCIs.

Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, and Gregorio Martínez Pérez

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BLOG@CACM Mar 24 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Three

How we took advantage of students' expertise in the application domain component of data science.

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

BLOG@CACM Mar 23 2023

AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy

Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market view of how AI should be made available to students, teachers, and educational institutions. We need to strengthen governance of public data and more strongly shape the market for AI in education.

Jeremy Roschelle

News Mar 9 2023

COVID Modelers Expand their Missions

Team science is writ (very) large.

Gregory Goth

BLOG@CACM Mar 9 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Two

"When I heard we will be learning Python, I became anxious."

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

BLOG@CACM Mar 1 2023

Serendipity: When Research in One Area Leads to a Positive Result in Another

A problem of the extremely optimal family of circulant graphs: when research in one scientific field gives an unexpected result in another.

Andrei Sukhov and Aleksandr Romanov

News Mar 1 2023

Neural Networks for Drug Discovery and Design

Architectures suited for molecules streamline the identification of pharmaceutical candidates.

Don Monroe

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Opinion Mar 1 2023

A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations

Reconsidering liability shield considerations.

Pamela Samuelson

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Opinion Mar 1 2023

Designing an Ethical Tech Developer

Studying how to improve teaching young people to ethically exercise the power of technology.

Alexandra Gillespie

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Opinion Mar 1 2023

A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance

Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.

Daniel W. Woods

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.

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