Communications of the ACM
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DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
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What Came First, Math or Computing?
One of the most fundamental conundrums in the philosophy of mathematics is the question of whether mathematics was discovered by humans or invented by them.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language
PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.COLUMN: News
Quantum Speedup for the Fast Fourier Transform?
It is difficult to improve on the widely used, already-efficient algorithm.What's Old Is New Again
Analog computing offers one possible solution to the downsides of digital computing.Accessibility and Inclusion through Technology
Helping the sensory-impaired overcome their impediments.COLUMN: Legally Speaking
Legal Challenges to Generative AI, Part II
Deliberating on inconclusive AI-generated policy questions.COLUMN: Opinion
On Being a Computer Science Communicator
Facilitating more effective public engagement with a computer science perspective.COLUMN: Economic and Business Dimensions
The Gamification of Academia
Gaming the system.COLUMN: Opinion
Machine Learning Sensors
A design paradigm for the future of intelligent sensors.COLUMN: Privacy
Privacy in the Age of AI
What has changed and what should we do about it?COLUMN: Opinion
The Infrapolitics of Algorithmic Resistance
Exploring the complex interactions between humans and machines governed by algorithms.Rethinking Conference Formats
Suggesting a conference format better suited for both onsite and virtual conferences.SECTION: Practice
Echoes of Intelligence
Textual interpretation and large language models.DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.SECTION: Research
Scrambled Features for Breakfast: Concepts of Agile Language Development
Describing a framework to support simpler development of languages best suited to express the problems and solutions of each particular domain.Informatics Higher Education in Europe: A Data Portal and Case Study
A discussion on the need for coordinated, governed, data-driven computing education initiatives of the future.Is TinyML Sustainable?
Assessing the environmental impacts of machine learning on microcontrollers.Uncloneable Cryptography
In memory of Stephen Wiesner, 1942–2021.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: What's All the Fuss about Fuzzing?
"Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective," by Marcel Böhme, Valentin J.M. Manès, and Sang Kil Cha, presents a novel twist to fuzzing that is shown to increase the central metric of the number of bugs …Boosting Fuzzer Efficiency: An Information Theoretic Perspective
In this paper, we take the fundamental perspective of fuzzing as a learning process.COLUMN: Last Byte
