Communications of the ACM
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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Tracing the Evolution of the Computer, from Unusual to Ubiquitous
New book chronicles computer's journey from scientific instrument to general-purpose device
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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An Interview with Microsoft's Head of Gaming Ecosystem
Sarah Bond discusses how Microsoft shifted its console-centric gaming business to make the most of its investments in cloud
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Avoiding Defects in C Programming
Computer security specialist details tools and techniques developers can use to write secure code in C
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Robot Learning at Google and Generalization via Language
Google Robotics research scientist Eric Jang talks about robotic manipulation and self-supervised robotic learning
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The Benefits of Rust
An in-depth discussion about the virtue of Rust, its future, and more
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How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
John Martinis, former chief architect of Google Sycamore, offers a measured perspective on quantum's progress
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Meta's Andrew Bosworth on Moving Facebook to the Metaverse
'The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn't been attempted in a long time'
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Infrastructure as Code
Helping software developers use code to access more control over cloud infrastructure assets
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How GitHub COO Erica Brescia Runs the Coding Gold Mines
Tech leader discusses the state of GitHub's infrastructure, open source software philosophies, and more
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Talking Secure Coding
Security expert discusses the importance of secure coding, how to improve adoption, best practices, and more
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Linux Turns 30: From Bedroom Project to Billions of Devices
Linux fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman talks about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel
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Playing With, and Against, Computers
2019 ACM Computing Prize recipient David Silver on developing the AlphaGo algorithm, his fascination with Go, and on teaching computers to play.
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L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
How relevant are the fallacies today?
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