Communications of the ACM
Ulterior Motives
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software…
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The Computer Scientist Who Is Boosting Privacy on the Internet
Harry Halpin has helped create a new kind of network that might enable more private Internet conversations.
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AI and ML Observability
Andy Dang, head of Engineering at WhyLabs, discusses observability and data ops for AI/ML applications and how that differs from traditional observability.
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'We All Have A Part to Play in Fixing the Digital Skills Shortage'
Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates and of GSI, talks about her work with tech startups, scaleups, and tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
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Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
A conversation with Joel Lehman, machine-learning scientist formerly of OpenAI and Uber AI Labs.
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Designing to Avoid Worst-Case Outcomes
Interaction designer Jonathan Shariat discusses harmful software design.
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The Pope's AI Adviser on Ensuring Algorithms Respect Human Dignity
Franciscan monk Paolo Benanti is the brains behind the Rome Call, a pact aimed at making sure AI is developed with ethics in mind.
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Linguistics and the Development of NLP
An interview with Christopher Manning, director of the Stanford University AI Lab and an associate director of Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence...
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Calling Out the 'Toxic Culture' of Computer Science
Berkeley Professor Emeritus Edward Lee tells why he chastised the rejection culture at computer science conferences.
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I Was There When: AI Helped Create a Vaccine
An interview with Dave Johnson, chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Moderna.
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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.
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Supercomputer Emulator: AI's New Role in Science
Chris Bishop, Microsoft's head of AI4Science, sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation.
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'The New Generation of Computer Scientist Wants to Benefit Society'
Professor Jim Kurose discusses the type of science computing researchers are focusing on and the future of the field.
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Interpretable Machine Learning
A conversation with Been Kim, staff research scientist at Google Brain.
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The Computer Scientist Challenging AI to Learn Better
Christopher Kanan is building algorithms that can continuously learn over time—the way people do.
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How to Solve AI's 'Common-Sense' Problem
AI systems without common sense will make mistakes when they reach the limits of where they've been trained.
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Democratizing LLMs Needs a Revolution in AI Hardware
Hardware barriers must be overcome to make LLMs available to a broader audience.
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An Interview with Dana Scott
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.
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Matthew Ball on the Metaverse
Leading metaverse theorist shares his thoughts on the sudden rise of the concept, its utility for the enterprise, and what we still get wrong.
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