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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.
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website
We can control our online ecological impact.
What Should be Done About Facebook?
The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social media, including disinformation, misinformation, hate speech, depression, and more. There's been a lot of talk about regulators stepping in. What kinds of questions, insights, or advice might our community offer these regulators?
Hybrid systems enhance the capabilities of electronics with biologics.
Up to the second half of the 19th century —with the exception of the industrial power Great Britain—the protection of inventions was inadequate and strongly disputed.
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.
Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: Hunting for Bugs
Companies offer big money to 'white-hat hackers' to find flaws in software products before the black hats do.
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.
Welcome to the second regional special section spotlighting China.
Innovations and Trends in China’s Digital Economy
An examination of three digital start-ups which have become top domestic brands in their respective industries.
AI+X Micro-Program Fosters Interdisciplinary Skills in China
The nature of artificial intelligence is interdisciplinary, and its power lies in augmenting its ability to accelerate research exponentially.
Processing Extreme-Scale Graphs on China’s Supercomputers
Enabling extreme-scale graph processing in two leading supercomputer architectures.
Chinese AI start-ups have moved away from noisy bubbles and landed in an investment boom.
Knowledgeable Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
The knowledgeable machine learning framework utilizes knowledge for language understanding in NLP.
Natural Interactive Techniques for the Detection and Assessment of Neurological Diseases
A look at recent advances in the use of natural user interface (NUI) for neurological disease detection and assessment.
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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