Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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Deep learning approaches can process images and video captured in less-then-desirable conditions, providing much clearer results.
NSF Accelerator is Open For Business
Attempting to harness the National Science Foundation’s 10 Big Ideas.
Pantographs have been widely used for centuries; for example, in surveying and embroidery. With these devices, drawings can be enlarged and reduced.
Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession–But to What End?
It is time to revisit and update the purpose of ACM. It must be "to advance the science and profession of computing for the public good."
Moshe Vardi suggests in his January 2020 column that ACM conferences do more to support remote participation. I have several concerns about his proposals.
Robin K. Hill explains the ethical responsibility of the computing professional with respect to voting systems.
Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Computing and Community in Formal Education
Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities.
Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has confronted us with a raft of dilemmas that challenge us to decide what values are important in our designs.
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
Through the Lens of a Passionate Theoretician
Considering the far-reaching and fundamental implications of computing beyond digital computers.
Above the Line, Below the Line
The resilience of Internet-facing systems relies on what is above the line of representation.
The BBC micro:bit – From the U.K. to the World
A codable computer half the size of a credit card is inspiring students worldwide to develop core computing skills in fun and creative ways.
A platform for creating a crowdsourced picture of human opinions on how machines should handle moral dilemmas.
Toward Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation
Exploring the vision of a model-based framework that may enable broader engagement with and informed decision making about sustainability issues.
Technical Perspective: A Perspective on Pivot Tracing
Instead of handing trace records off to a collector for long-term storage and future processing, the system described in "Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems," by Jonathan Mace, et al., installs continuous queries, on demand, inside the distributed system itself.
Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
This paper presents Pivot Tracing, a monitoring framework for distributed systems, which addresses the limitations of today's monitoring and diagnosis tools by combining dynamic instrumentation with a novel relational operator: the happened-before join.
Bluetooth device users seldom suspect they are opening themselves to man-in-the-middle hacker attacks.
How Do We Make AI More Ethical?
Scientists consider the limits of ethics in the realm of artificial intelligence, and how to mitigate its biases.
Futurists Get 15 Minutes Every 4 Years
Zoltan Istvan is the latest futurist to run for U.S. president.
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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