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Research and Advances Oct 1 2017

A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github

What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub in an attempt to shed some empirical light on this question.

Baishakhi Ray, Daryl Posnett, Premkumar Devanbu, and Vladimir Filkov

A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages, illustration

BLOG@CACM Oct 1 2017

Manipulating Word Representations, and Preparing Students For Coding Jobs?

Robin K. Hill mulls an aspect of natural language processing research, while Mark Guzdial ponders why coding is taught in public schools.

Robin K. Hill and Mark Guzdial

Opinion Oct 1 2017

IoT: The Internet of Terror

If it seems like the sky is falling, that's because it is.

George V. Neville-Neil

IoT: The Internet of Terror, illustration

Opinion Oct 1 2017

The Real Risks of Artificial Intelligence

Incidents from the early days of AI research are instructive in the current AI environment.

David Lorge Parnas

The Real Risks of Artificial Intelligence, illustration

Research and Advances Sep 1 2017

Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time

We discuss how our Scribe system combines human labor and machine intelligence in real time to reliably convert speech to text with less than 4s latency.

Opinion Sep 1 2017

Why Agile Teams Fail Without UX Research

Failures to involve end users or to collect comprehensive data representing user needs are described and solutions to avoid such failures are proposed.

Gregorio Convertino and Nancy Frishberg

Opinion Sep 1 2017

All The Pretty Pictures

Alexei Efros, recipient of the 2016 ACM prize in computing, works to harness the power of visual complexity.

Leah Hoffmann

BLOG@CACM Sep 1 2017

Assuring Software Quality By Preventing Neglect

Robin K. Hill suggests software neglect is a failure of the coder to pay enough attention and take enough trouble to ensure software quality.

Robin K. Hill

News Sep 1 2017

It’s All About Image

Image recognition technology is advancing rapidly. Researchers are discovering new ways to tackle the task without enormous datasets.

Samuel Greengard

It’s All About Image, illustrative photo

News Sep 1 2017

Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries

Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.

Logan Kugler

Opinion Sep 1 2017

Digitocracy

Considering law and governance in the digital age.

Joel R. Reidenberg

Research and Advances Sep 1 2017

Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge

Answering questions correctly from standardized eighth-grade science tests is itself a test of machine intelligence.

Moving Beyond the Turing Test, illustrative photo

Research and Advances Sep 1 2017

Trust and Distrust in Online Fact-Checking Services

Even when checked by fact checkers, facts are often still open to preexisting bias and doubt.

Petter Bae Brandtzaeg and Asbjørn Følstad

Research and Advances Sep 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Humans and Computers Working Together on Hard Tasks

"Scribe," by Walter S. Lasecki, et al., is one of the first in a recent set of crowdsourcing papers that demonstrated how human workers can collaborate with computing systems to accomplish a real-time task that is difficult for either one to do by itself.

Ed H. Chi

News Aug 29 2017

Big Brother Is Watching You

Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.

Gary Anthes

Showing the aspects of the face considered in facial recognition.

News Aug 24 2017

Robot the Musical

Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.

Samuel Greengard

Technology is pushing music into a new frontier.

BLOG@CACM Aug 8 2017

Learning Programming at Scale

I summarize my first three years of research as an assistant professor on studying and building tools to support people who are learning computer programming.

Philip Guo

News Aug 8 2017

In Memoriam Peter Wegner: 1932-2017

Wegner made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming.

Lawrence M. Fisher

Brown University professor emeritus of computer science Peter Wegner.

News Aug 3 2017

Chip Technology Could Help the Blind, Robots, See

Bio-inspired designs that encode light as time are ushering in systems as efficient as human neurology.

Mark Halper

A patient in Paris wears Pixium's Bionic Vision Restoration System.

News Aug 1 2017

Parking Smart

Using technology to make parking easier.

Jake Widman

According to Ziptopia, 30% of city traffic is people cruising looking for parking.

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software For Multicore Processors

This paper introduces an interface-driven approach to building scalable software.

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia For Spinnable Objects

In this article, we describe an algorithm to generate designs for spinning objects by optimizing their mass distribution.

Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Emily Whiting, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Research and Advances Aug 1 2017

Technical Perspective: Linking Form, Function, and Fabrication

To avoid costly feedback loops between design, engineering, and fabrication, research in computer graphics has recently tried to incorporate key aspects of function and fabrication into an "intelligent" shape modeling process. A great example for this trend is depicted in "Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects."

Helmut Pottmann

Opinion Aug 1 2017

Turing’s Taxi

Ride with an autonomous AI cab driver that might actually know too much about where it's going . . .

Brian Clegg

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