2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2023
Artificial intelligence pioneer Judea Pearl discusses probability, causation, the calculus of intervention, and counterfactuals.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2012
ACM CEO John White talks about initiatives to serve the organization's professional members, increase international activities, and reform computer science education...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2012
A professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth College, Mary Flanagan has spent her career thinking critically about a topic that most of us take for granted: Play...Leah Hoffmann From ACM News | July 5, 2011
Jon Kleinberg talks about algorithms, information flow, and the connections between Web search and social networks.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
Jeannette Wing talks about clusters, creativity, and the power of computational thinking.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2009
Daphne Koller discusses probabilistic relational modeling, artificial intelligence, and her new work with biologists.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2008