In his January 2023 Communications Viewpoint, "The End of Programming," Matt Welsh wrote "nobody actually understands how large AI models work." However, already no one person understands existing large computer systems.
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As the inventor of Ethernet, now ubiquitous in so many forms, Bob Metcalfe, the Turing Award Laureate for 2022, has earned the right to speak about connectivity.
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.
Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society
Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.
Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects
Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.
Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
Reaching out across computer science research communities.
Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
NSF on Chien’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability
This Viewpoint focuses on ways the computing community can contribute broadly to environmental sustainability and identifies NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering research programs supporting these efforts.
The ACM 4.0 Initiative aims to lay the foundations of ACM for the next 25 years on issues of service to society and to ACM members, ACM membership, ACM finances, and internal processes.
Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.
As with the huge hotel and condo complex being constructed adjacent to the building where my office is located, tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can support itself.
Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
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By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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