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Research and Advances Mar 1 2023

Technical Perspective: Reconsidering the Design of User-Schedulable Languages

The breakthrough of "Achieving High Performance the Functional Way," by Bastian Hagedorn et al., is in fundamentally rethinking the design of user-schedulable languages so that decades of wisdom from traditional programming languages can be brought to bear.

Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

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Opinion Mar 1 2023

Who Is Responsible Around Here?

Let us stop talking about Responsible AI. We, computing professionals, should all accept responsibility now, starting with ACM!

Moshe Y. Vardi

Careers Mar 1 2023

A Philosopher’s Daughter Navigates a Career in AI

In high school, a friend of my brother who was studying telecommunication engineering spoke to me about the great potential technology holds to improve society. That conversation inspired me to study computer science.

Nuria Oliver

BLOG@CACM Feb 17 2023

Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like GitHub CoPilot, I think we’re a step closer towards a world where software can be created by anyone. In fact, my colleague Brad Myers, who has investigated end-user programming for decades, believes that CoPilot is the biggest change to programming since Google search. I think this may be understating things. We’re going to see a wave of new kinds of software programming tools based on LLMs, and they will be transformative in how developers build and evaluate computer systems.

Jason Hong

News Feb 14 2023

Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business

Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention.

Samuel Greengard | Commissioned by CACM Staff

BLOG@CACM Feb 13 2023

What Google Should Really Be Worried About

How sewers of lies could spell the end of Web search.

Gary Marcus

BLOG@CACM Feb 2 2023

The Need For Combined Data And Analytic Governance

Numbers don't mean anything if people don't understand, or trust, the computation behind them.

Doug Meil and Michael Onders

Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

(Re)Use of Research Results (Is Rampant)

Prior pessimism about reuse in software engineering research may have been a result of using the wrong methods to measure the wrong things.

Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

HPC Forecast: Cloudy and Uncertain

An examination of how the technology landscape has changed and possible future directions for HPC operations and innovation.

Daniel Reed, Dennis Gannon, and Jack Dongarra

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Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

The Lean Data Scientist: Recent Advances Toward Overcoming the Data Bottleneck

A taxonomy of the methods used to obtain quality datasets enhances existing resources.

Chen Shani, Jonathan Zarecki, and Dafna Shahaf

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Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees

We present a sound verification technique based on abstract interpretation and implement it in a tool called Antidote, which abstractly trains decision trees for an intractably large space of possible poisoned datasets.

Samuel Drews, Aws Albarghouthi, and Loris D'Antoni

Opinion Feb 1 2023

Aftermath Impact

An ancient Roman dispatched to find the greatest technological advances of the time may lose something of far greater importance.

William Sims Bainbridge

News Feb 1 2023

Computational Linguistics Finds Its Voice

Advances in artificial intelligence permit computers to converse with humans in seemingly realistic ways.

Samuel Greengard

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News Feb 1 2023

Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?

When fed a sufficient amount of training data, artificial intelligence techniques can be used to generate new ideas in several different ways. Is that creativity?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Opinion Feb 1 2023

The Elephant in the Room

It is time to get the POSIX elephant off our necks.

George V. Neville-Neil

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Opinion Feb 1 2023

Ethical AI is Not about AI

The equation Ethics + AI = Ethical AI is questionable.

Deborah G. Johnson and Mario Verdicchio

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Opinion Feb 1 2023

The Premature Obituary of Programming

Why deep learning will not replace programming.

Daniel M. Yellin

Opinion Feb 1 2023

Building Machine Learning Models Like Open Source Software

Proposing a community-based system for model development.

Colin Raffel

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Opinion Feb 1 2023

Software Engineering of Machine Learning Systems

Seeking to make machine learning more dependable.

Charles Isbell, Michael L. Littman, and Peter Norvig

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Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet

Looking past inessential complexities to explain the Internet's simple yet daring design.

James Mccauley, Scott Shenker, and George Varghese

Research and Advances Feb 1 2023

Technical Perspective: Beautiful Symbolic Abstractions for Safe and Secure Machine Learning

"Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees," by Samuel Drews et al., addresses the challenge of processing an intractably large set of trained models when enumeration is infeasible in a clean, beautiful, and elegant manner.

Martin Vechev

Opinion Feb 1 2023

On QR Codes and Safety

The QR code, a convenient mechanism for delivering digital information to a reader, does not come with any human-readable way to ascertain safety. You have no way to tell whether it is potentially malicious.

Vinton G. Cerf

BLOG@CACM Jan 23 2023

ChatGPT in Computer Science Education

Asked "How will ChatGPT influence computer science education?" teachers barely addressed the threats it poses.

Orit Hazzan

News Jan 17 2023

Mining the Margins to Save Lives

Using artificial intelligence to ensure fewer donated kidneys are discarded, and that food donations make it to those in need via what is fast becoming an Internet of Food.

Gregory Goth | Commissioned by CACM Staff

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