Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society
Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.
Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications
Breaking down the blockchain.
Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.
How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science, logic, and nothing we even know about ourselves.
A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80
Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.
Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage
What are the promising applications to realize quantum advantage?
Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
Development Use Cases for Semantics-Driven Modeling Languages
Choosing underlying semantic theories and definition techniques must closely follow intended use cases for the modeling language.
From Code Complexity Metrics to Program Comprehension
Understanding code depends not only on the code but also on the brain.
What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE community can learn from past work, successes, and failures in privacy.
Even as software grows increasingly complex, artificial intelligence helps to simplify and automate coding tasks.
ACM Publications Finances for 2021
One requirement for ACM's multiyear transition to become a fully Open Access publisher is to develop and implement a sustainability plan to ensure ACM Publications continues to operate at a high level with the quality of its publications and the services it provides to the community.
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