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Machine Learning: The Road to Artificial Intelligence?

Aug 20 2023

Machine learning, as it is practiced, has little, if anything to do with AI and the more encompassing endeavor that we call Cognitive Science.

Walid S. Saba

Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?

Northeastern University Senior Research Scientist Walid Saba

Aug 7 2023

Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.

Saurabh Bagchi and Arash Nourian

ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen’s Perceptions

Aug 7 2023

Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.

Orit Hazzan and Yael Erez

Automated Tests Are the Safety Net

Aug 4 2023

Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.

Yegor Bugayenko

Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC

Aug 1 2023

Network latency and HPC performance.

Anton Demin, Oleg Shakhov, and Andrei Sukhov

Architecture and Hardware

Aug 1 2023

Teaching the FATE Community about Privacy

Jason Hong finds many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy.

Jason I. Hong

Education

Jul 30 2023

Stop Judging AI Using Human Exams

Computer scientists should inform the public that human tests are not a valid way to judge the quality of an AI model, nor a good way to compare AI models to human experts. Computer scientists should stop using human tests to measure AI.

Jeremy Roschelle

Jul 29 2023

Bigger than a Blackbox

When we ask how deep learning works, are we asking which node represents the answer to "animal, vegetable, or mineral?"

Robin K. Hill

The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation

Jul 26 2023

Incentives are changing the effectiveness of computer science conferences, but perhaps better conference design can improve them.

Jason Harline

Jul 17 2023

Why They’re Worried

Summarizing experts' motivations for signing the 'Pause Letter.'

Isabella Struckman and Sofie Kupiec

Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?

Jul 17 2023

A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.

Herbert Bruderer

Jul 14 2023

Egalitarian Authorship

Is there a way to provide egalitarian authorship to papers?

Carlos Baquero

An Organizational Perspective on the Process of Adopting Executable Exams

Jul 10 2023

We analyze the organizational change that took place at the Technion when the assessment method in the CS1 course changed from paper-based exams to executable exams.

Yael Erez and Orit Hazzan

Education

Jul 5 2023

Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language

PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.

Doug Meil

VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition

Jul 5 2023

VOT Challenge is one of the outstanding competitions in computer vision. At the end of this important event this year, I would like to share my opinions about this competition.

Aleksandr Romanov and Roman Solovyev

ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense

Jun 19 2023

I asked ChatGPT who wrote the book "Meilensteine der Rechentechnik." The program returns many different answers, all wrong.

Herbert Bruderer

Jun 19 2023

Exponential Protests

Exponential organizations offer an appropriate organized structure for the current Israeli protest, and maybe for other cases of civil resistance.

Orit Hazzan

Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong

Jun 12 2023

It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.

Gary Marcus

The Hadoop Ecosystem’s Continued Impact

Jun 12 2023

Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.

Doug Meil

ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity

Jun 5 2023

It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.

Daniel Lemire

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

Jun 5 2023

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

Herbert Bruderer

AI Does Not Help Programmers

Jun 3 2023

Getting past the"Wow" effect.

Bertrand Meyer

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4

May 31 2023

We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser