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Geoffrey Hinton wants to design neural networks so they have different ways of seeing the same thing.
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How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds
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Testing Educational Digital Games
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The June 2021 Communications of the ACM celebrates Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho as winners of ACM's 2020 Turing Award. For many Iranian members of the computing community, Ullman is the face of discrimination in academia.
Updating emergency rescue equipment and tactics with digital technologies.
Protecting Enterprise Use of IoT
How to strengthen the security of the Internet of Things in organizations.
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A procedure tested on Google's Sycamore quantum processor demonstrates the next practical level of error correction.
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Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
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The Unionization of Technology Companies
New unions could change how tech giants engage with their employees.
Repeated ethical violations ends with membership revocation and ban.
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Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.
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Proven practices to recruit domestic computer science graduate students.
In the June issue of Communications, Editor-in-Chief Andrew A. Chien suggested that ACM consider bestowing two A.M. Turing Awards per year. Reader reactions were thoughtful and provocative.
Screen Recognition Makes Apps More Accessible
Apple's Screen Recognition algorithm identifies the metadata necessary to communicate the functions of any app or Web page to the visually impaired.
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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