Data scientists face challenges spanning academic and non-academic institutions.
Christine L. Borgman, Michael J. Scroggins, Irene V. Pasquetto, R. Stuart Geiger, Bernadette M. Boscoe, Peter T. Darch, Charlotte Cabasse-Mazel, Cheryl Thompson, Milena S. Golshan From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2020
Toward a more equitable distribution of the benefits of technological change.
Kathleen H. Pine, Margaret M. Hinrichs, Jieshu Wang, Dana Lewis, Erik Johnston From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2020
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
Pamela Samuelson From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2020
A BCS position paper finds the software coding practices of non-computer-science scientists to be insufficiently professional.
Computer Weekly From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2020
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
Connor Bolton, Kevin Fu, Josiah Hester, Jun Han From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2020
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
Peter J. Denning, Ted G. Lewis From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2020
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
Janet Siegmund, Norman Peitek, André Brechmann, Chris Parnin, Sven Apel From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2020
Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive, and done in person...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2020
The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2020
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
Bennie Mols From ACM News | March 19, 2020
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2020
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
Kieron O'Hara, Wendy Hall From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2020
Twenty-three years after his loss to IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, Garry Kasparov says people need to work with machines.
Wired From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2020