Communications of the ACM
Tackling the Challenges of CS Education
Chris Stephenson on the complex challenges that continue to plague the computer science education community.
From ACM Opinion
Q&A: Google's Luiz André Barroso
Google Vice President of Engineering Luiz André Barroso discusses his work, including improvements to the datacenter, Google Maps, and hardware design.
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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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Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
From ACM Opinion
Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI
Twenty-three years after his loss to IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, Garry Kasparov says people need to work with machines.
From ACM Opinion
Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends in 2020
Google AI chief Jeff Dean discusses Google's early work on the use of ML to create semiconductors for machine learning, the impact of Google's BERT on conversational...
From Communications of the ACM
An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
From ACM Opinion
How Artificial Intelligence Is Supercharging Materials Science
MIT Associate Professor Juejun Hu shines a light on the impact machine learning and AI are having on materials science and engineering.
From Communications of the ACM
Inspired by the Home of the Future
2018 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Shwetak Patel pushes old tools to new heights.
From ACM Opinion
Black Hole Hunters: Q&A With Katie Bouman
Scientists have revealed the first-ever image of a black hole. The picture is the result of a global collaboration in which scientists linked together telescopes...
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AI Pioneer: 'The Dangers of Abuse Are Very Real'
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
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The ncanny Valley Nobody's Talking About: Eerie Robot Voices
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we're all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not...
From ACM Opinion
Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
What are your most important tech tools for reporting in Shanghai, especially with a government known for surveillance?
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The S Cannot Crush s, Says Huawei Founder
The founder of Huawei has said there is "no way the US can crush" the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
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The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower
On September 29, 2017, a Chinese satellite known as Micius made possible an unhackable videoconference between Vienna and Beijing, two cities half a world apart...
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Facebook's Top AI Scientist Says It's 'Dust' Without Artificial Intelligence
Without artificial intelligence there wouldn't be much left of Facebook as we know it today.
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CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-Edited Babies
Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the technology to create gene-edited babies. ...
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One of the Fathers of AI Is Worried About Its Future
Yoshua Bengio is a grand master of modern artificial intelligence.
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The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines
A few weeks ago computer scientist J. Alex Halderman rolled an electronic voting machine onto a Massachusetts Institute of Technology stage and demonstrated how...
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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
This is a story of getting the good out of the bad, said Mario Jurić.
From ACM Opinion