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Opinion Sep 1 2020

Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?

U.S. Government actions to restrict immigration could result in a dramatic reduction in the number of international graduate students in U.S. universities, and will have a devastating impact on U.S. graduate programs in computing.

Moshe Y. Vardi

Opinion Sep 1 2020

Lost in Translation

Aaron Hertzman's Viewpoint "Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do," makes excellent points as to why it is very unlikely that computers will ever replace artists.

CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2020

Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively

Orit Hazzan on the challenges of taking a CS soft skills class online after teaching it in a classroom for a decade.

Orit Hazzan

Research and Advances Sep 1 2020

Becoming an ‘Adaptive’ Expert

Investigating student knowledge transfer and metacognitive activities at college CS departments and at coding bootcamps.

Quinn Burke and Cinamon Sunrise Bailey

BLOG@CACM Aug 31 2020

Preparation for Building the First Swiss Digital Computer (Ermeth)

Eduard Stiefel's study trip to the U.S. in 1948/1949.

Herbert Bruderer

BLOG@CACM Aug 27 2020

Integrating Computing in School Subjects: A Conceptual Framework for Design and Analysis

This post presents a conceptual framework for integrating computing and computational thinking into other domains. The framework is intended to support curriculum and assessment design, as well as providing analysis of examples of practice.

Shuchi Grover

News Aug 27 2020

Why Did We Go Digital?

Princeton University's Ken Steiglitz feels an attachment to the analog.

Allyn Jackson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Princeton University professor emeritus Ken Steiglitz.

News Aug 25 2020

Direct Communication

Brain-to-Brain interfaces give a new meaning to putting our heads together.

Mark Halper | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Receiver Theodros Haile is outfitted with transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as electroencephalograms.

News Aug 14 2020

Creepy Robots of the Coronavirus Era

The robots policing people as they begin to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns are not being mistaken for anyone's friends.

Paul Marks

Spot the robot dog patrols a Singapore park

News Aug 13 2020

Picking Locks with Audio Technology

How eavesdropping smartphones could give thieves a copy of your front door key.

Paul Marks

Listening for the faint sounds of a key entering a lock.

News Aug 12 2020

Finding Common Ground

Self-driving vehicles start to understand pedestrians, cyclists.

Bennie Mols | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Aug 11 2020

Apparently, Size Does Matter

Consumers make better Internet buying decisions when using full-sized PCs.

Joe Dysart | Commissioned by CACM Staff

Comparing online buying decisions on full-sized computers and smartphones.

BLOG@CACM Aug 10 2020

Closing the ‘Trust Gap’ in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology

The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.

Ryan Carrier

BLOG@CACM Aug 7 2020

Can Research Universities Become Exponential?

We argue that exponential research and exponential teaching may exert mutual influence and foster each other, creating together the exponential research university.

Orit Hazzan and Avi Salmon

News Aug 6 2020

We Need to Talk About Linguistic Diversity in AI

More than 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, but speech- and text-based services that use artificial intelligence are dominated by a handful.

Karen Emslie | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Aug 4 2020

Instant Videos: Just Add Text

Artificial intelligence software can create a video montage from a few typed words.

Joe Dysart

The system responds to input text with video clips that could used to illustrate that text.

BLOG@CACM Aug 2 2020

3 Proposals to Change How We Teach Computing In Order to Reduce Inequality

Computer Science education is inequitable. The least-prepared students are going to be hurt the most in online teaching. We have to make change now.

Mark Guzdial

Opinion Aug 1 2020

On the Internet of Medical Things

It is entirely feasible to imagine the Internet of Medical Things with a significant capacity for remote medical diagnosis and triage.

Vinton G. Cerf

BLOG@CACM Aug 1 2020

How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated

John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.

John Arquilla and Jeremy Roschelle

News Aug 1 2020

Are We Addicted to Technology?

Experts agree technology causes some negative behaviors, but they are divided on how bad the problem is.

Logan Kugler

wrist chain-bound to cellphone, illustration

Opinion Aug 1 2020

TECHNOLOchicas: A Critical Intersectional Approach Shaping the Color of Our Future

A unique partnership seeks to address the underrepresentation and unique barriers facing Latina women and girls of color in information technology.

Jannie Fernandez and JeffriAnne Wilder

middle school girls in TECHNOLOchicas LiFT T-shirts

Opinion Aug 1 2020

Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education

Rethinking the content of introductory computing around a data-centric approach to better engage and support a diversity of students.

Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler

Opinion Aug 1 2020

OMSCS: The Revolution Will Be Digitized

Lessons learned from the first five years of Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science program.

Zvi Galil

OMSCS initials and binary code, illustration

Research and Advances Aug 1 2020

Examining Undergraduate Computer Science Participation in North Carolina

Data on CS graduation rates among six academic institutions in NC traces the demographics of those participating (or not) in the discipline.

Fay Cobb Payton and Alexa Busch

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