How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?
Robots will likely revolutionize software engineering ranging from code reviews and bug fixing to automated refactoring, backlog prioritization, and employee appraisals.
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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
The Smallness of Large Language Models
There is so much more to language and human beings than large language models can possibly master.
We Need to Focus on How Our Data Is Used, Not Just How It Is Shared
Toward better understanding of the different ways data circulates between users and platforms.
Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
How collaborative designs and community-based moderation could improve social media.
Research for Practice: OS Scheduling
Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.
To Regulate Tech, Nullify Click-Through Contracts
It is time to cut the Gordian knot and nullify, legislatively, all click-through agreements.
Finding the Right Mix of Creativity and Technology
The original Star Wars and The Matrix were pivotal influences in igniting my unshakable fascination with technology-driven creativity.
An effort to bring artificial intelligence into better alignment with our moral aims and finally realize the vision of superior decision making through AI.
Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes
The best way to guard against becoming a target of social engineering is to familiarize yourself with the strategies, psychological hooks, and technological means that attackers employ.
Machine Learning: The Road to Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning, as it is practiced, has little, if anything to do with AI and the more encompassing endeavor that we call Cognitive Science.
Optical Vectors Beam Multi-Bits
The technique works by modulating the vector-quality factor, instead of the amplitude of a laser.
Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.
ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen’s Perceptions
Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.
Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.
Giving Users More than They Can Handle
Are Microsoft's artificial intelligence files creating security issues for customers?
Quantifying artificial intelligence's capacity for creativity requires an understanding of what creativity is.
Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: A Group Autoethnography of a Virtual Summer Internship
Interns, full-time members, and affiliates of a Microsoft Research team focused on accessibility report on the experiences of virtual interns in 2020 navigating the challenges of working remotely.
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.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
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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