Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication. By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.

Jan 6, 2025 · In the first four parts of this Communications Historical Reflections column series, I have followed the artificial intelligence (AI) brand from its debut in the 1950s through to the reorientation of the field around probabilistic approaches and big data during the AI winter that ran through the 1990s and early 2000s.. Aside from the brief …

Dec 18, 2024 · Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication. By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.

Dec 18, 2024 · The ethics crisis in computing was “launched” in 2018. In March of that year, The Boston Globe asserted, “Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it!” This was in response to the Techlash, a where Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described Silicon Valley executives as “moral Martians who operate on some weird new postmodern ethical ...

Jul 7, 2020 · Harvard University researchers claim to have uncovered the "missing link" towards an unhackable quantum Internet. Ironically, the only part of the Internet that is secure today is the DarkNet, where hackers encrypt traffic, hide their identities, buy/sell stolen secrets, and even chit-chat about how to pull-off the latest scams.Public Internet traffic, on …

Communications of the ACM is the leading online and print publication for the computing and information technology fields. Read by computing’s leading professionals worldwide, Communications is recognized as the most trusted and knowledgeable source of industry information for today’s computing professional. In the traditions of the Communications print magazine, which each month brings ...

Oct 2, 2024 · The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched its Psyche spacecraft in October 2023 with the mission of reaching and studying a unique asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Oct 21, 2024 · The figure sketches out the history of AI from the expert systems era—which spanned the mid-1960s to the late 1980s—to the present. I do not cover the era of adversarial game-playing algorithms and the emergence of graph-traversal search algorithms such as A*, 16 which primarily fall into the realm of optimization and heuristic search on well-specified problems.

May 13, 2024 · The six memory addresses v 1, …, v 6 contain, at the beginning, the coefficients of the six terms a x, b y, c, a ′ x, b ′ y, c ′.In the first multiplication, the processor uses the variables v 1 and v 5 for computing b ′ a.The table shows that after the first operation, both variables are reduced to zero and the result b ′ a is stored in v 7.The last column is a comment about the ...

Feb 1, 2019 · For example, Figure 1 shows the RISC-I 8 and MIPS 12 microprocessors developed at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University in 1982 and 1983, respectively, that demonstrated the benefits of RISC. These chips were eventually presented at the leading circuit conference, the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, in 1984. 33,35 It was a remarkable moment when a ...