Communications of the ACM
The False Promise of America's CHIPS Act
It is doubtful that large subsidies and government management will keep U.S. chip makers on top.
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Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
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Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
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Call For a Wake Standard for Artificial Intelligence
Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.
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For Impactful Community Engagement: Check Your Role
Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.
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Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media
Guaranteeing truth in advertising.
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Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic
With increasing complexity comes increasing risk.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
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Reinventing Virtual Machines
The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
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A* Search: What's in a Name?
A search for algorithmic answers returns unique results.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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Why 'Move Fast and Break Things' Doesn't Work Anymore
For the past few decades, agility in the technology sector has largely meant moving faster and faster down a predetermined path.
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AIs Should Have The Same Ethical Protections As Animals
We will soon have AI as cognitively sophisticated as mice or dogs, so it is time to start thinking about whether these AIs deserve the ethical protections we typically...
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Uncertainty
Considering how to best navigate stability and randomness.
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Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
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