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First Impressions: Designing Social Actions for Positive Social Change with Bard

Mar 18 2024

AI promises many things, some fairly reasonable, some too good to be true, and some flat-out apocalyptic.

Douglas Schuler

The Artist’s Role on a Science and Engineering Campus

Mar 15 2024

The Music, Science, Inspiration Series creates a campus platform to open dialogue and mutual, meaningful inspiration between scientists, engineers, and artists.

Orit Wolf and Orit Hazzan

Ensuring Business Continuity with Backup Cloud Storage Choices

Mar 14 2024

A properly selected backup data storage solution will help ensure the safety and reliability of your data, which is a vital aspect of any business's successful and stable operation.

Alex Vakulov

How to Navigate Generative AI within the Regulatory Frameworks of Banking and Finance

Mar 4 2024

Navigating Generative AI within the regulatory frameworks of banking and finance requires a multidimensional approach.

Ranjeeta Bhattacharya

Rare Circular Slide Rules

Feb 16 2024

Slide rules: the longer the scale, the greater the accuracy of the instrument.

Herbert Bruderer

Sensibles of Software Engineering, 1 and 2

Feb 16 2024

Common-sense rules, which projects violate again and again.

Bertrand Meyer

Niklaus Wirth and Beyond: Safeguarding the Intellectual Heritage of Computing

Feb 13 2024

On preserving the memory, and work documentation, of the founders of computer science.

Carlos Baquero and José Nuno Oliveira

Computer History

Carlos Baquero of Porto University, and Jose Nuno Oliveira of the University of Minho

Feb 7 2024

SWOT Analysis of ChatGPT in Computer Science Education

In this blog, we address high school teachers' perspective on the incorporation of ChatGPT into computer science education.

The Role of Autonomous Machine Computing in Shaping the Autonomy Economy

Feb 1 2024

The role of Autonomous Machine Computing in fostering the Autonomy Economy.

Shaoshan Liu

Unlocking the Potential of Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchain

Jan 26 2024

The intricate world of zero-knowledge proofs and their role within the blockchain.

Alex Williams

Why Are the Critical Value and Emergent Behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) Fake?

Jan 24 2024

Why there are no emergent properties in Large Language Models.

Mario Antoine Aoun

A Multifaceted Perspective on the Interdisciplinarity of Data Science

Jan 24 2024

The experience of teaching similar content to students with different academic backgrounds illuminated the varied facets of data science.

Tokenomy of Tomorrow: Envisioning an AI-Driven World

Education

Jan 22 2024

Examining the significant influence that AI is expected to have on our economic frameworks.

Shaoshan Liu

Jan 19 2024

The Colossus

Unseen images of the code-breaking computer that helped win World War II.

Herbert Bruderer

Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

Jan 9 2024

A Renaissance Man of computer science

Bertrand Meyer

Are You Confident in Your Backups?

Jan 8 2024

Assessing data security.

Alex Vakulov

Computing Applications

Jan 8 2024

The Link Between Rituals and Data Science

The case of the Israeli social protest.

Orit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak

‘On Expert Testimony’: A Response

Jan 5 2024

This post was created in response to the Cerf's Up article "On Expert Testimony" that appeared in the December 2023 issue of Communications.

Eoghan Casey

Digitization Puts Many at a Disadvantage

Jan 2 2024

Digitization has many downsides.

Herbert Bruderer

The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the People Analytics Perspective: Part Two

Jan 2 2024

Exploring how interdisciplinary research projects enable computer science students to acquire a variety of skills.

Cook-Levin: The Ugly Underbelly is Good for Us

Dec 10 2023

Don't just tell your students that SAT is NP-Complete; show why.

Robin K. Hill

Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Dec 4 2023

The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the People Analytics Perspective: Part One

The case of a People Analytics Workshop for undergraduate computer science students.

Dec 1 2023

When Data Worlds Collide

Critical sections in analytic workflows.

Doug Meil