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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

Opinion Mar 1 2023

After the Complaint: What Should ACM Disclose?

Every now and then, ACM is faced with cases of alleged wrongdoing. Some are very serious, raising calls for ACM to more publicly disclose more information surrounding cases of wrongdoing.

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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

News Feb 28 2023

Fending off Cyberattacks on Collaborative Robots

Hackers leverage IoT, IIoT vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to cobots.

David Geer | Commissioned by CACM Staff

News Feb 23 2023

MXenes Shield EMI, More

Feather-light yet providing near-total shielding capability, MXenes effectively conduct electricity, tune frequencies, and enhance the integrity of communications signals better than traditional materials.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

A free-standing film of MXene (Titanium Carbide - Ti3C2Tx) functioning as a microwave disc resonator with an operation frequency of 3.0 GHz.

BLOG@CACM Feb 21 2023

How Not to Test GPT-3

Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think.

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

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

BLOG@CACM Feb 16 2023

ChatGPT for Provost!

Three to five years from now, we won’t be talking about what ChatGPT can or can’t do, but we could be talking about how ChatGPT brought us all together, and the intellectual culture of the university began to shift.

Jeremy Roschelle

News Feb 16 2023

Ears on AI and Data

A round-up of podcasts focused on artificial intelligence and/or data.

Karen Emslie | Commissioned by CACM Staff

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 13 2023

What is an Author?

In a single-author text (such as this one), we can assume a lot about the process. In the multi-author case, all these assumptions start to break down.

Carlos Baquero

BLOG@CACM Feb 13 2023

Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness

A Nightmare on LLM Street.

Gary Marcus

News Feb 9 2023

Space Robots Prepare to Grapple and Repair Satellites in Orbit

An interview with William Vincent, Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program manager at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Paul Marks

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory robotics engineer John Kinch prepares Robotic Arm System #2 for kinematic calibration.

News Feb 7 2023

The Holy Grail of Electric Vehicles: Solid-State Batteries

Manufacturers look to make batteries safer and help them last longer by replacing liquid cores with solid ones.

R. Colin Johnson | Commissioned by CACM Staff

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

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

Opinion Feb 1 2023

Four Ways to Add Active Learning to Computing Courses

How active-learning techniques can benefit students in computing courses.

Barbara Ericson

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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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