Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Lebanon
Despite the challenges that Lebanon has faced over the past five years, several success stories materialized in its entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Building a Preeminent Research Lab in the Arab Region: The Case of QCRI
QCRI was created with a mandate to support Qatar's transformation from a carbon economy to a knowledge-based economy.
Autonomous Driving in the Face of Unconventional Odds
Finding solutions to the challenges that will help deliver autonomous driving to world regions in desperate need of it.
The Strategic Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates
An overview of the United Arab Emirates' unique and visionary pursuit of artificial intelligence.
Cyber Security Research in the Arab Region: A Blooming Ecosystem with Global Ambitions
The Arab world's response to cyber security challenges does not happen without tension or regional specificity.
A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World
Though Arabic NLP has many challenges, it has seen many successes and developments.
Networking Research for the Arab World: From Regional Initiatives to Potential Global Impact
The Arab region opens ample room for communications and networking innovations and services and contributes to the critical mass of global networking innovation.
Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development
The paucity of data on the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals provides an opportunity to use non-traditional data sources as a complement, in particular through the use of artificial intelligence.
Database Systems Research in the Arab World: A Tradition that Spans Decades
Prominent database researchers are settling within the Arab region and furthering its database research culture.
The Arab World Prepares the Exascale Workforce
A menu of Awareness, Examples, Instruction, Opportunity, and Utilization will Yield members of the exascale workforce, mnemonically: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes — hopefully often(!) — Y.
Unleashing Early Maturity Academic Innovations
How four prominent universities across the Arab region stimulate high-quality undergraduate research and innovation in computing.
Connecting Arabs: Bridging the Gap in Dialectal Speech Recognition
Arabic poses a set of unique speech recognition challenges due to its rich dialectal variety.
Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community
The biomedical computing research community in the Arab world has been actively contributing to efforts that tackle long-standing biomedical challenges.
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
Higher Education Readies for a Quantum Leap
The nascent quantum industry is calling on higher education to begin preparing a quantum workforce with a broader, less specialized range of technical skills.
DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Computing Community
Improving diversity is everybody’s job.
AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications in education will require emphasizing intelligence augmentation (IA), not just artificial intelligence (AI).
Majorana Meltdown Jeopardizes Microsoft’s Quantum Computer
Majorana particles would make perfect qubits to build a large quantum computer, but their creation and detection in 2018 was probably no more than overinterpreted noise. Lead scientist Leo Kouwenhoven's integrity is now under investigation.
Synthetic Data: Even Better than the Real Thing?
Societal issues and new tools are driving synthetic data uptake. How does it stack up against its real-life counterpart?
AI vs. AI: The Race to Generate, Share, and Detect Deepfakes
Fakers and researchers alike are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to produce and identify manipulated digital content.
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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