400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."
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Data science and philosophy professsor David Danks on the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence research.
Researchers Flesh Out Biocomputing
Drawing Intelligence from actual brain cells could deliver human-like cognition in diverse fields.
Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects
Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.
Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
Reaching out across computer science research communities.
A Career Built on Using Technology to Help Others
Everyone deserves the access and opportunity to have a good and fulfilling life. Technologies can only contribute toward this goal when they are designed from an understanding of what makes a life good for the people concerned.
NSF on Chien’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability
This Viewpoint focuses on ways the computing community can contribute broadly to environmental sustainability and identifies NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering research programs supporting these efforts.
The ACM 4.0 Initiative aims to lay the foundations of ACM for the next 25 years on issues of service to society and to ACM members, ACM membership, ACM finances, and internal processes.
Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Form Concepts
Concepts and abstraction are key to unlocking AI's full potential.
ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires. I do not subscribe to this dystopian view of the future.
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.
Rage Against the Intelligent Machines
AI safety concerns mount as Large Language Model risks are revealed.
Can Digital Wallets Save Cryptocurrency?
Seeking a better deal for bitcoin and its ilk in Web3 and the Metaverse.
Smartphone-based Satellite Connectivity to Move Beyond Emergency Services
Different approaches emerge in the race to provide direct-to-satellite smartphone services.
ACM Publications Finances for 2021
One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its publications and the services it provides to the community.
Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code as promised.
Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy
Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market view of how AI should be made available to students, teachers, and educational institutions. We need to strengthen governance of public data and more strongly shape the market for AI in education.
Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%
Researchers at the Netherlands' Eindhoven University of Technology are chasing quantum efficiency.
GPT-4’s Successes, and GPT-4’s Failures
How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence.
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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