Communications of the ACM
Still Networking
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer…
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What Is So Great about Quantum Computing?
A Q&A with NIST theorist Alexey Gorshkov.
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Code Breaker: Meet the Man Who Virtually Invented Computer Art
Herbert W. Franke's digital work is finally being recognized as revolutionary after being rejected and scorned in the 1950s.
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AI's Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real
But short-term job chaos will give way to long-term prosperity, says artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee.
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How to Write Software with Mathematical Perfection
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other, and now he's working on how engineers talk to their machines.
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The Woman Who Brought Female Representation to Games
The year-long search for Wabbit creator Van Mai comes to a happy conclusion.
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Mark Zuckerberg on His Big Metaverse Bet
Meta CEO explains why he is committed to the metaverse and able to make bets that others will not.
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Computers Have Memories Too
Simons Foundation Junior Fellow Sebastian Wolff discusses his quest to simplify the switch between the two deletion processes.
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Turning a Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Dream into Reality
Intel's director of quantum hardware talks about quantum computing's reliance on the next generation of chips.
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Future of Computer Science Is in Its Application to Daily Life
Microsoft India CTO Shivkumar Kalyanaraman believes computer science's future will be based on how it can be applied as a utility.
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How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
University of Michigan's Shobita Parthasarathy warns that software designed to summarize, translate, and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science....
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Blending Computer Science with Culture
Coding with Culture creator Victor Hicks explains how culturally relevant lessons can be included in STEM learning.
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Patterns and Prose
A University of Southern California computer scientist is a coder by trade and a poet at heart.
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Our Human Future in an Age of AI
What does it mean to be human in an age where AI agents make decisions that shape human actions?
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The Future of AI in Games
Making artificial intelligence a tool of freedom and creativity for everyone.
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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What Stewart Brand Sees on the Horizon
Silicon Valley prophet thinks tech can clean itself up.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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