Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Cerf's Up
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Opinion
COLUMN: Computing Ethics
COLUMN: Historical Reflections
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
COLUMN: opinion
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Research
SECTION: Research Highlights
COLUMN: Last Byte
Validating Factual Personal Information
I have been wondering what properties would be useful to realize in a system intended to keep personal information, where it is needed, up to date.DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Why Bother Localizing Information Technology Products?
Alex Tray offers advice and insight into how and why to localize information technology products.COLUMN: News
Algorithmic Advance: The Group Isomorphism Problem
Exploring a potential way to immensely speed up algorithms for the group isomorphism problem.Teaching Transformed
The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation among teachers.Virtual Reality as Therapy
Leveraging precisely designed alternate realities as therapeutic tools.COLUMN: Opinion
Autocorrect Is Not: People Are Multilingual and Computer Science Should Be Too
Considering the interconnection of computing and human languages.COLUMN: Computing Ethics
Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI
Applying AI techniques to journalism.COLUMN: Historical Reflections
How the AI Boom Went Bust
Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Dear Diary
On keeping a laboratory notebook.COLUMN: opinion
Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula
First-job readiness versus long-term career preparation.Virtual and the Future of Conferences
Making conferences more accessible.Gaining Benefit from Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: A Three-Part Framework
Why ethics is not enough.SECTION: Practice
Security Mismatch
Security must be a business enabler, not a hinderer.Knowing What You Need to Know
Personal, team, and organizational effectiveness can be improved with a little preparation.SECTION: Research
Inherent Limitations of AI Fairness
AI fairness should not be considered a panacea: It may have the potential to make society more fair than ever, but it needs critical thought and outside help to make it happen.Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI
Challenges and opportunities faced by computing educators and students adapting to LLMs capable of generating accurate source code from natural-language problem descriptions.Talking about Large Language Models
Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature. Yet, in their very nature, such systems are fundamentally not like us.Anthropomorphism and Human-Robot Interaction
Exploring how human apppreciation for and interactions with robots are influenced by anthropomorphic features.Energy and Emissions of Machine Learning on Smartphones vs. the Cloud
A Google case study finds ML training in the cloud can reduce CO2e emissions up to 100×.SECTION: Research Highlights
Technical Perspective: How Easy Is It to Describe Hard Polynomials?
"Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits," by Nutan Limaye et al., achieves a landmark in the larger quest of understanding hardness, dentity testing, and reconstruction.Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits
In this paper, we prove the first superpolynomial lower bounds against algebraic circuits of all constant depths over all fields of characteristic 0.Technical Perspective: Bridging AI with Real-Time Systems
"Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines," by Shengzhong Liu et al., proposes a new methodology for overcoming the limitations of current AI frameworks to enable the use of deep neural networks …Taming Algorithmic Priority Inversion in Mission-Critical Perception Pipelines
This paper discusses algorithmic priority inversion in mission-critical machine inference pipelines used in modern neural-network-based perception subsystems and describes a solution to mitigate its effect.COLUMN: Last Byte
