The Big IDEA and the PD Pipeline are two examples of industry-changing initiatives launched by the Computer Science Teachers Association over the past two years...Mark R. Nelson From BLOG@CACM | August 8, 2017 at 03:26 PM
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | July 26, 2017 at 06:13 PM
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | June 20, 2017 at 09:56 PM
Policies and strategies that may lead to or initiate acts of cyberwar should be subject to scrutiny.
John Arquilla From BLOG@CACM | June 13, 2017 at 10:28 AM
In January 2007, I undertook the task of revitalizing Communications of the ACM. Now, after 10 years at the helm of Communications, it is time for me to move on...Moshe Y. Vardi From BLOG@CACM | May 24, 2017 at 04:22 PM
At TURC, ACM leaders consider the future of AI, and I ask about the implications for computing education
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | May 20, 2017 at 04:04 AM
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by...Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | April 29, 2017 at 08:32 PM
Unconscious bias is pervasive in computing, and training is our best remedy, how can untrained students evaluate their CS teachers without bias?
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | April 23, 2017 at 09:11 PM
A new Computing Research Association report describes the dramatic influx of undergraduates into computer science classes.
Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | March 28, 2017 at 06:34 PM
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | February 26, 2017 at 10:27 PM
Like model theory, fiction deploys a theory and an interpretation. An interpretation that makes the statements of the theory true demonstrates consistency, in...Robin K. Hill From BLOG@CACM | December 30, 2016 at 10:17 PM
Despite more than two decades of consistent public warnings that have reached the highest levels of government, cybersecurity throughout much of the world is in...John Arquilla From BLOG@CACM | December 19, 2016 at 02:24 PM
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Jason J. Sauppe, and Steven E. Rigdon From BLOG@CACM | December 2, 2016 at 01:21 PM