Communications of the ACM
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December 2021
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Why We Must Rethink AI Benchmarks
While helpful in comparing AI performance, benchmarks are often taken out of context, sometimes to harmful results
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The Intersection of Math, Computers, and Everything Else
MIT senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society
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Human-Centered Explainable AI and Social Transparency
An interview with doctoral candidate Upol Ehsan, who researched human-centered explainable AI
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Securing Kubernetes Environments
Lack of resources is a massive blocker, so IT leaders need to prioritize
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The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less
Gavin Wood believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy
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Four AI Trends for 2022
Look for improvements to neural networks, strategic ethics, hiring practices, and even gastronomy
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Why You Should Care about Meta's Push into the Metaverse
The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the Internet
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Keeping AI in Healthcare in Check
Experts discuss the need to prevent AI bias in healthcare
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No, We Don't Have Living, Reproducing Robots
Kinematic self-replication is interesting research, but it isn't reproduction or replication
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Patent Absurdity
A case when ignorance is the best policy.
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What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
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Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
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'In Situ' Data Rights
Improving on data portability.
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Accelerator-Level Parallelism
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.
Original Roman Pocket Calculators are Extremely Rare
12.01.2021As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.
Experiencing Loops in Time
11.28.2021We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
