A growing number of games seek to introduce the concepts of programming to young players.
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Welcome to the 40th Annual ACM-ICPC World Finals in Phuket, Thailand
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM, is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming competition in the world.
500,000+ Data Scientists at Your Service
Members of the online community Kaggle push the limits of what Big Data can do.
Inexpensive three-dimensional printers are making prosthetic hands and arms more widely available.
Why All Writs Is a Trojan Horse
Citing the All Writs act as a way to give the government the power to compel companies to redesign or reimplement their electronic products to government specifications represents a threat to everyone's civil liberties.
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.
Data-centric abstractions and execution strategies are needed to exploit parallelism in large-scale graph analytics.
The Challenges of Partially Automated Driving
Car automation promises to free our hands from the steering wheel but might demand more from our minds.
Static Presentation Consistency Issues in Smartphone Mapping Apps
Comparing smartphone mapping apps leads to unexpected surprises.
A Survey of Robotic Musicianship
Reviewing the technologies that enable robot musicians to jam.
On the Naturalness of Software
We begin with the conjecture that most software is natural, with all the attendant constraints and limitations — and thus, like natural language, it is also likely to be repetitive and predictable.
Technical Perspective: Software Is Natural
"On the Naturalness of Software" by Hindle et al. takes an entirely new approach to providing tools to help build software.
Technical Perspective: A Breakthrough in Software Obfuscation
In "Hiding Secrets in Software," Garg et al. construct a "one-way compiler" of the type envisioned by Diffie and Hellman.
Future Tense: Becoming a Multi-Planet Species
Imagine hyper-realistic virtual space exploration limited only by the data we are able to collect.
Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.
Do Patent Commons and Standards-Setting Organizations Help Navigate Patent Thickets?
Examining the institutions underlying the patent system for information and communication technologies.
The Moral Imperative of Artificial Intelligence
The big news on March 12 of this year was of the Go-playing AI-system AlphaGo securing victory against world champion Lee Se-dol. AlphaGo's victory is a stunning achievement and another milestone in the inexorable march of AI research.
US-BLS: Computing Employment Outlook Remains Bright
According to the most recent US-BLS Employment Projections, most STEM career opportunities are in computing.
Can Chatbots Think Before They Talk?
ELIZA-like programs balance modern AI with decades-old database techniques.
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