Communications of the ACM
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't Intelligent
The term "artificial intelligence" alone fuels confusion and hype, say some experts
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Thorny Problems in Data (-Intensive) Science
Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
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Formal Methods as a Path to Better Cybersecurity
Any piece of software should be able to provide the desired features, and when errors do occur, the software should handle them gracefully.
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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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BCS calls for computer coding in scientific research to be more professional
A BCS position paper finds the software coding practices of non-computer-science scientists to be insufficiently professional.
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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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Professor Leads COVID-19 Test Site Mapping Effort
Big data and artificial intelligence expert Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is spearheading a mapping effort conducted by software engineers and student volunteers from the...
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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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Joe Steinmeyer on Guiding Students Into the World of STEM
Joe Steinmeyer, a principal lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has taught more than 400 students in various Office...
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Interview with Claire Le Goues
Claire Le Goues, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, describes the similarities of high school debate and computer science, why it's fun to take...
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The U.S. Needs a High-Tech Manhattan Project
The United States needs to wrest the high-tech initiative from China and re-establish American dominance in telecommunications, computation, artificial intelligence...
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Why We Can't Develop Voting Software That Works
Ever wonder why we could write software to get to the Moon, but not to count votes? Here are five reasons.
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Challenging the Myth of the 10x Programmer
A pervasive belief in software engineering is that some programmers are much better than others, and that their skills, abilities, and talents exert an outsized...
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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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We're Banning Facial Recognition. We're Missing the Point.
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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