The Process-Object Duality in Computer Science and Data Science Education
The process-object duality has several educational implications for the design of teaching and learning processes.
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The Impact of Virtual Meetings
Virtual meetings have mixed effects on employee productivity, creativity, and relationships.
An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
What Must All Post-Secondary Students Learn about Computing?
Expanding students' understanding of computing's potential.
A Formal Approach to Identifying the Impact of Noise on Neural Networks
An overview of the state of the art and its limitations for analyzing the impacts of noise on artificial neural networks.
Computing for Climate Resilience in Agriculture
A report on the Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture (PoCRA) program whose main objective is to make smallholder farmers resilient to climate variability through targeted interventions.
Intelligent Futures in Task Assistance
Applying lessons learned developing and deploying task management software.
This second regional special section from India represents the diversity and excitement of the computational sciences in India through 15 articles, all co-written by authors from the Indian subcontinent.
Computing and Assistive Technology Solutions for the Visually Impaired
While accessibility normally refers only to the modality for making information accessible, in the Indian context, it is tightly tied to affordability.
Building the SHAKTI Microprocessor
The SHAKTI Processor Program started as an academic initiative in 2014 aimed to create open source, industrial-grade processors and build associated components of a more extensive ecosystem.
Impactful Research and Tooling for Program Correctness
We have been developing two frameworks — VeriAbs and VeriFuzz — to solve the problems of formal methods to improve software quality, which often fail to scale to the size and complexity of software.
Digital Interventions at Scale: Lessons from NPTEL and IIT Madras B.S. Degree Program
Online learning provides an effective approach to some of the systemic challenges related to higher education in India. Two key initiatives have demonstrated positive results.
National Digital Library of India: Democratizing Education in India
The National Digital Library of India was conceptualized with an aim to bring equity of access to educational resources for every Indian through a single window access mechanism.
Prutor: An Intelligent Learning and Management System for Programming Courses
The Prutor browser-based tutoring system offers an integrated development environment (IDE) with a text editor, linter, interactive access to a remote compiler, and a debugger.
Bringing the Missing Women Back: CS Education for Women in India's Engineering Institutions
Several initiatives have come up to address gender gaps in the context of engineering education in India.
Toward Explainable Deep Learning
Explainability has become a cornerstone of responsible AI use and deployment.
Fake News in India: Scale, Diversity, Solution, and Opportunities
The massive proliferation of fake news in India has created a dire need to consider solutions explicitly catering to the region.
Theory Research in India: 2019–2022
We explore some of the results of exciting new research in the field of algorithms in India.
AI and Data Science Centers in Top Indian Academic Institutions
A ook at the activities of artificial intelligence and data science centers located at seven top Indian institutes.
COVID-19 Modeling for India and a Roadmap for the Future
A look at models developed in India to forecast the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country.
The Many Shapes of a Computer Science Career
When you apply for a career in tech, it often means having to decide: Am I a product manager? A software engineer? A researcher? A designer? Most of us have a variety of skills that don't all neatly fall into one box.
A look at some of the major research accomplishments resulting from the efforts of several academic institutes to secure cyberspace.
The Blood Price of Unrestricted Privacy
Reinhard von Hanxleden ends his May 2022 Communications Viewpoint by pointing out the unthinking application of unconditional criteria to privacy "seems like a dead end in the long run." It has already proven to be a "dead end" with a Germanwings airliner crash into a cliff in France caused by the copilot.
Up with Data Science, and the First Programmer
Orit Hazzan and Koby Mike suggest a more focused approach to teaching machine learning, while Herbert Bruderer considers the identity of the first programmer.
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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