The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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Higher Education Readies for a Quantum Leap
The nascent quantum industry is calling on higher education to begin preparing a quantum workforce with a broader, less specialized range of technical skills.
DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Computing Community
Improving diversity is everybody’s job.
AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications in education will require emphasizing intelligence augmentation (IA), not just artificial intelligence (AI).
Majorana Meltdown Jeopardizes Microsoft’s Quantum Computer
Majorana particles would make perfect qubits to build a large quantum computer, but their creation and detection in 2018 was probably no more than overinterpreted noise. Lead scientist Leo Kouwenhoven's integrity is now under investigation.
Synthetic Data: Even Better than the Real Thing?
Societal issues and new tools are driving synthetic data uptake. How does it stack up against its real-life counterpart?
AI vs. AI: The Race to Generate, Share, and Detect Deepfakes
Fakers and researchers alike are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to produce and identify manipulated digital content.
Around the World: (The First Time) with <i>Communications'</i> Regional Special Sections
In 2017, we made the strategic decision to launch Communications' Regional Special Sections. Next month (April 2021), we will publish the special section for Arabia, completing our circumnavigation of the world. The special sections have emerged as a "multicultured splendor."
Today, the top seven companies in the S&P 500 index are all tech companies. Large companies wield power, and that often leads to a clash between these companies and "The People," that is, with governments.
Enabling Renewable Energy Through Smarter Grids
We have enormous power to change the world through the systems we create. A world with clean air and water in which every person is respected seems like something we can all aspire to.
Disputing Dijkstra, and Birthdays in Base 2
Mark Guzdial takes issue with Dijkstra's metaphors, while Joel C. Adams considers how birthdays might differ if based on binary numbers.
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr., a celebrated American academic who developed methods for mathematically proving the correctness of computer systems, died on December 22, 2020 at the age of 75 from complications of COVID-19.
Informing California Privacy Regulations with Evidence from Research
Designing and testing 'Do Not Sell My Personal Information' icons.
Seeking to reap the positive uses of synthetic media while minimizing or preventing negative societal impact.
Science Is Not Another Opinion
The issue is not who has the "truth," but whose claims deserve more credence.
What Can the Maker Movement Teach Us About the Digitization of Creativity?
Experimenting with the creative process.
The Pascal programming language creator Niklaus Wirth reflects on its origin, spread, and further development.
A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
The Amazon CTO sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale.
Gender Trends in Computer Science Authorship
Under optimistic projection models, gender parity is forecast to be reached after 2100.
Educational Interventions and Female Enrollment in IT Degrees
A study of female students enrolled in IT degrees in Australia traces how programs influenced decision making.
Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques
The evolution of and countermeasures for existing reconnaissance techniques.
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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