CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM
WEBFeb 23, 2024 · We are excited to announce that Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.This means that more than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone, regardless of whether they are members of ACM or subscribe to the ACM Digital Library.
The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education
WEBJul 30, 2024 · The findings “suggest that we should expect the effects of AI automation to be smaller than the existing job automation/destruction effects already seen in the economy,” the study says. “Whether adding AI automation of these existing effects will substantially increase overall job destruction is unclear.”. While there is likely to be ...
Leveraging Computational Thinking in the Era of Generative AI
WEBAug 29, 2024 · In August 2022, the concept of computational thinking was revisited by Mike et al., this time from the data science perspective (Mike et al., 2022). A few months later, in November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which was the first signal of a new storm—Generative AI, or GenAI—that has changed many domains of our lives since then.
Software Engineering Code of Ethics Is Approved
WEBOct 1, 1999 · Software Engineering now has its own Code of Ethics. The Code has been adopted by both the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, having gone through an extensive review process that culminated in the official unanimous approval by the leadership of both professional organizations. Here, we discuss the major changes that took place between version ...
A Guide to Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Conclusion. Managed backup and disaster recovery is a service that the provider (MSP) delivers to client organizations to ensure data protection and restore IT infrastructures after global failures. A robust BDR vendor offers workflow automation, scalability, and security, along with thorough planning, efficient data synchronization, and ...
Communications of the ACM
WEBAn Analysis of the Math Requirements of 199 CS BS/BA Degrees at 158 U.S. Universities. While most CS departments in the U.S. require calculus, there is no consensus as to where in the degree program it should be placed. Carla E. Brodley, McKenna Quam, and Mark Weiss. Education.
The First Computer Program – Communications of the ACM
WEBMay 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 ...
Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity
WEBFeb 15, 2024 · Code-completion systems offering suggestions to a developer in their integrated development environment (IDE) have become the most frequently used kind of programmer assistance. 1 When generating whole snippets of code, they typically use a large language model (LLM) to predict what the user might type next (the completion) from the context of what they are working on at the moment (the prompt ...
ACM Code of Ethics – Communications of the ACM
WEBJan 1, 2018 · The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (the Code) is being updated by the Code Update Task Force a in conjunction with the ACM’s Committee on Professional Ethics. The Code was initially written in 1992, and this is the first update since then. In previous articles we detailed the motivations for updating the Code, b gave our ...
There Was No ‘First AI Winter’ - Communications of the ACM
WEBDec 14, 2023 · As I concluded my June Historical Reflections column, artificial intelligence had matured from an intellectual brand invented to win funding for a summer research workshop to one of the most prestigious fields in the emerging discipline of computer science. Four of the first 10 Turing Award recipients were AI specialists: Marvin Minsky, Herb Simon, Allen Newell, and John McCarthy.