Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Tesla AI Chief Says Self-Driving Cars Don't Need Lidar
Andrej Karpathy shares why the company still believes in a purely vision-based autonomous driving solution.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Business of Windows
Microsoft CEO discusses efforts to make Windows 11 more flexible and open than predecessors.
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The Danger of Anthropomorphic Language in Robotic AI Systems
Clear, non-anthropomorphic language is central to dismantling misconceptions of AI as a black box.
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97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know
Book authors discuss compilation featuring expert advice from Java leaders and practitioners.
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Paving the Way Towards Trustworthy and Responsible AI
Public sector AI innovation needs a more sophisticated, data-driven, and mature approach to ensure effectiveness of governments and better citizen outcomes.
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Q&A with Google's Bill Magro
Google's new chief technologist of HPC talks quantum computers, AI, cloud, silicone packaging, interconnect technology, and expanding HPC's reach.
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned
It may not be too late to put the evil "slaughterbots" genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now.
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How Do We Stop the Supercomputing Carbon Crisis?
Efficiency measures are struggling to keep pace with, let alone make headway on, the accelerating demands of modern supercomputers.
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An Interview with Jim Keller: 'The Laziest Person at Tesla'
Veteran chip designer covers his past lives, Moore's Law, AI-designed chips, security, ethics, and more.
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Neo4j's $325 Million Venture Suggests Databases Are Cool Again
Relational databases aren't dead, but database innovation is cropping up in all sorts of places now, including graph databases.
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The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won't Be Fortran
To understand where talent shortages might arise, look at critical infrastructure.
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Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair Use
A multifactored rationale for denying Oracle's claim against Google.
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Why the Title of Your Paper Matters
Titles are the first, and often the only, part of your paper that others will read.
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Responsible Computing During COVID-19 and Beyond
Navigating the ethical and societal impacts of technologies.
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The Limits of Differential Privacy (and Its Misuse in Data Release and Machine Learning)
Differential privacy is not a silver bullet for all privacy problems.
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Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
Acquiring developer-prized practical skills, knowledge, and experiences.
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The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.
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Large Language Models Associate Muslims with Violence
New approaches are needed to systematically reduce the harmful bias of language models in deployment.
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