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Careers Jul 1 2023

From UX to Product: An Intentional Career Route

My mother, a stroke-sufferer since her early 20s, is challenged both physically and cognitively. Thus, I was compelled at a young age to study technology and learn how it could improve the lives of everyone — not just the able-bodied.

Hina Elton

Research and Advances Jul 1 2023

Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization

We describe a significant emerging trend away from the techno-solutionist approach to problems that seeks to create and understand a new paradigm: a productive interplay between algorithms and people.

colored blocks hover above mobile devices held by four people, illustration

Research and Advances Jul 1 2023

JIZAI Body: Human-Machine Integration Based on Asian Thought

JIZAI Body allows a person to free their body and mind by controlling their natural body and altered robotic parts.

Masahiko Inami

JIZAI robotic arms attached to a person's back

Research and Advances Jul 1 2023

Challenges in Designing Blockchain for Cyber-Physical Systems

Tackling scalability, trust, and privacy.

News Jun 27 2023

After Twitter

New social apps arise to challenge troubled Twitter.

Neil Savage

News Jun 22 2023

Doctors Train in Virtual Reality

Simulations prepare surgeons for the real thing.

Jake Widman

Surgeons collaborate during virtual surgery.

News Jun 20 2023

Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid

Protecting electrical power delivery networks from incursions.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Jun 13 2023

ChatGPT in the Classroom

ChatGPT is giving educators headaches and forcing them to reinvent how classrooms work.

Logan Kugler

BLOG@CACM Jun 12 2023

The Hadoop Ecosystem’s Continued Impact

Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.

Doug Meil

News Jun 6 2023

Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App

The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.

Gregory Goth

A basic configuration for pen computing.

BLOG@CACM Jun 5 2023

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

Herbert Bruderer

Opinion Jun 1 2023

Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science

How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.

Thomas Haigh

old computer hardware and colored line drawing of a brain, illustration

BLOG@CACM May 27 2023

Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics

Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.

Robin K. Hill

BLOG@CACM May 23 2023

How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction

Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science, logic, and nothing we even know about ourselves.

Walid S. Saba

Northeastern University Senior Research Scientist Walid Saba

News May 19 2023

Linking IT’s Energy Consumption to Carbon Emissions

New guidelines aim to measure, and ultimately reduce, the digital impact of the enterprise on the environment.

Cari Shane | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News May 16 2023

A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80

Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.

Allyn Jackson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News May 11 2023

A Focus on X-Ray Vision

Seeing past the distractions to what is inside.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

X-ray image of a person using their iPhone.

News May 9 2023

Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones

Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Spyware secretly gathers information about a person or organization and relays this data to other parties.

News May 2 2023

Researchers Flesh Out Biocomputing

Drawing Intelligence from actual brain cells could deliver human-like cognition in diverse fields.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News May 1 2023

Locking Down Secure Open Source Software

Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?

Neil Savage

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Opinion May 1 2023

Please Report Your Compute

Seeking consistent means of measure.

Jaime Sevilla, Anson Ho, and Tamay Besiroglu

the word 'FLOP' on a graph-like background, illustration

BLOG@CACM Apr 13 2023

What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?

There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE community can learn from past work, successes, and failures in privacy.

Jason Hong

News Apr 6 2023

Can Digital Wallets Save Cryptocurrency?

Seeking a better deal for bitcoin and its ilk in Web3 and the Metaverse.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Apr 6 2023

A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space

From digital ownership to artistic communities.

Carlos Baquero

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