Communications of the ACM
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Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
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Collaborating With Users to Develop Accessible Designs
Co-authors Alan Lundgard, Crystal Lee, and Arvind Satyanarayan discuss "Sociotechnical Considerations for Accessible Visualization Design," published in the journal IEEE...
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Joe Steinmeyer on Guiding Students Into the World of STEM
Joe Steinmeyer, a principal lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has taught more than 400 students in various Office...
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Interview with Claire Le Goues
Claire Le Goues, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, describes the similarities of high school debate and computer science, why it's fun to take...
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Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI
Twenty-three years after his loss to IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, Garry Kasparov says people need to work with machines.
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Sovan Bin, CEO and Founder at Odaseva
Sovan Bin discusses Odaseva's data governance solutions, the evolution of cloud services, and AI and machine learning's influence in the cloud user experience. ...
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Shaking Up the Diversity Pipeline
Jordan Pedraza of Handshake discusses how the company is democratizing access to career opportunities for college students of color.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends in 2020
Google AI chief Jeff Dean discusses Google's early work on the use of ML to create semiconductors for machine learning, the impact of Google's BERT on conversational...
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Jenny Xu's App Helps Students Build Hackathon Teams
Jenny Xu, a junior at Stony Brook University, has developed and introduced Hacker Matcher, an app for team building at hackathons.
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Dan Jacobson On ORNL's Algorithms for Climate-Resilient Crops
Dan Jacobson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a few ideas on how artificial intelligence might impact agriculture, the food industry, and the field of bioengineering...
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This 11-Year-Old CEO Wants to Teach Kids Everywhere to Code
Samaira Mehta, co-founder of CodeBunnyz and founder of the Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code initiative, talks about why age is just a number, her dream of becoming...
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An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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Why Matthew Miller Sees a Bright Future for Fedora
Fedora project leader Matthew Miller discusses popular adoption, competing standards, upcoming changes, and hot-button topics such as systemd.
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Supercharging Materials Science
MIT Associate Professor Juejun Hu shines a light on the impact machine learning and AI are having on materials science and engineering.
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Hackathon Victor on Laying Foundations and CS Support Systems
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a computer-science major at North Carolina A&T State University, helped lead a team of four students to a First Place victory at the Black Enterprise...
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Computer Scientist David Gelernter Wants To Revolutionize Social Media
David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale, is concerned with the amount of power Facebook holds thanks to the data handed over to the social media giant...
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How the Firm Behind Many Store Credit Cards Is Using AI to Fight Fraud
Synchrony deploys AI to speed up operations including credit approvals and fraud detection. Chief Information Officer Carol Juel has led the undertaking.
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A Day in the Life of a Programmer
DataSine co-founder and CTO Chris Loy and Front End Engineer Jenny Wem answer questions about life as a programmer, the challenges they face, how things have changed...
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