The Pushback Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Code Review
Research shows that White, male, and younger engineers receive less pushback than those in other demographics.
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Given the complexity of data science projects and related demand for human expertise, automation has the potential to transform the data science process.
Technical Perspective: Applying Design-Space Exploration to Quantum Architectures
"Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" presents a study on scaling trapped-ion quantum architectures, and challenges the conventional wisdom of experimentalists in the field.
Technical Perspective: How Do Experts Learn New Programming Languages?
"Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?" by Shrestha et al. provides insight into the difficulty of learning new languages and suggests paths forward to addressing it.
Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?
Our findings demonstrate that interference is a widespread phenomenon, forcing programmers to adopt suboptimal, opportunistic learning strategies.
Toward Systematic Architectural Design of Near-Term Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Toward realizing QCCD-based trapped ion systems with 50-100 qubits, we perform an extensive application-driven architectural study evaluating the key design choices of trap sizing, communication topology, and operation implementation methods.
A focus on causality is promising to help researchers overcome shortcomings that have bedeviled more traditional approaches to artificial intelligence.
A Brave New World of Mediated Online Discourse
Is artificial intelligence up to the task of managing online discourse in social networks?
How Topic Novelty Impacts the Effectiveness of News Veracity Interventions
Can algorithmic advice override preconceived notions and the believability of fake news?
Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero
AI is driving the next evolution of chess, giving players a glimpse into the game's future.
Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers
Jeffrey D. Ullman and Alfred V. Aho are recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing award. They were recognized for creating fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.
What is your private data worth, to you and to the companies willing to pay you for it?
In highly regulated industries, it is critical that laws are translated precisely into code that reflects their intent.
The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
Declarative Machine Learning Systems
The future of machine learning will depend on it being in the hands of the rest of us.
Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
Advances in algorithms, machine learning, and hardware can help tackle many NP-hard problems once thought impossible.
Developer tools that use a neural machine learning model to make predictions about previously unseen code.
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.
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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