Communications of the ACM
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Achievement in Microarchitecture
David Papworth, a 30-year veteran of Intel, on what led to the P6 microprocessor and how that changed the microarchitectural paradigm.
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Ulterior Motives
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...
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Microsoft's Chris Young on Bringing AI to Main Street
Christopher Young, Microsoft's top strategy executive, views non-tech customers as artificial intelligence's big untapped market.
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On Being a University's First Chief AI Officer
Western University has created a top-level AI role, appointing Mark Daley as its first chief artificial intelligence officer.
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Q&A with SLAC Lab Director John Sarrao
John L. Sarrao starts his tenure as the director of the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory following a 26-year career at Los Alamos...
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Can AI In School Help Students Be More Creative and Self-Directed?
In an interview, University of Washington associate professor Katie Davis discusses her book, "Technology's Child," her research, and how generative AI might support...
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Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health
MIT Professor Alexey Makarin, whose research was cited in Social Media and Youth Mental Health, a recent advisory report by the U.S. surgeon general, discusses...
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Francis Enyi on Bridging the Healthcare Deficit in Africa
Francis Enyi, a senior program analyst with Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeri, discusses how his team of software developers, medical personnel...
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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks.
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Talking Software Obsolescence
An interview with Ross John Anderson, professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge.
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Five Questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson
Former AnitaB.org president/CEO discusses AI, diversity in tech, and much more.
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AI Expert Weighs In on the Rise of Chatbots
Products like ChatGPT will never be truly ready to go unless we have a working AI technology that supports continuous life-long learning.
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How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Education
Could an AI chatbot change learning forever?
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An AI Bill of Rights
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Brown University, discusses the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" and more.
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Gavriella Schuster: Empowering Women in Tech
Despite efforts to attract women into the tech industry, the representation of women at mid-tier and leadership levels remains depressingly static.
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Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics
Google research scientist Pete Florence discusses how robotics can benefit from dense visual representations, neural radiance fields, and large language models....
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Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.
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