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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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks.
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient discusses his career, collaborations, deep learning's promise, and directions for the field.
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Software Engineering in Physics Research
A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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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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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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Interpretable Machine Learning
A conversation with Been Kim, staff research scientist at Google Brain.
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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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An Interview with Dana Scott
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.
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Yann LeCun's Bold New Vision for the Future of AI
One of deep learning's godfathers pulls together old ideas to sketch out a fresh path for AI.
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The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures into Breakthroughs
An interview with Yale University Sterling Professor of Computer Science Daniel Spielman.
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What Is So Great about Quantum Computing?
A Q&A with NIST theorist Alexey Gorshkov.
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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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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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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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Connecting Large Language Models to Human Values
AI researcher Connor Leahy talks about replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, superhuman AI, AI alignment, AI risk and research norms, and more
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Machine-Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
An interview with Percy Liang, associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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