Communications of the ACM
WEBIntroducing the distinction between a programmer and a coder made the idea of automatic coding more appealing. Maarten Bullynck and Liesbeth De Mol. Computer History. BLOG@CACM Oct 3 2024. Alex Williams. Architecture and Hardware. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association.
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 ...
Knowledge Graphs – Communications of the ACM
WEBMar 1, 2021 · The 1977 workshop on “Logic and Data Bases,” held in Toulouse, France, and organized by Herve Gallaire, Jack Minker, and Jean-Marie Nicolas, 13 is considered a landmark event. Important notions such as Closed World Assumption by Ray Reiter and Negation as Failure by Keith Clark were presented at this workshop, which can be considered the birth of the logical approach to data.
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 ...
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 ...
Green AI – Communications of the ACM
WEBDec 1, 2020 · This trend is driven by the strong focus of the AI community on obtaining “state-of-the-art” results, b as exemplified by the popularity of leaderboards, 53,54 which typically report accuracy (or other similar measures) but omit any mention of cost or efficiency (see, for example, leaderboards.allenai.org). c Despite the clear benefits of improving model accuracy, the focus on this single ...
Alive and Well, As a Matter of Fax – Communications of the ACM
WEBAug 13, 2024 · According to the Global Fax Services Market—Outlook & Forecast 2023-2028 report from Research and Markets, the fax market can expect a compound annual growth rate of 11.05% during that period, increasing from $3.18 billion in 2022 to $5.96 billion in 2028. Alireza Ghasemzadeh, founder and CEO of Geneva, Switzerland-based workflow solution ...
Space Exploration Blasts Off with AI - Communications of the ACM
WEBJul 29, 2024 · A new era of space exploration is dawning. Artificial intelligence (AI) is radically reshaping a broad array of systems, tools and applications. Digital twins, machine learning (ML), generative AI, and other tools are now helping scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe, design smarter vehicles and robots, and accomplish myriad other ...
50 Years of Pascal – Communications of the ACM
WEBMar 1, 2021 · The Pascal programming language creator Niklaus Wirth reflects on its origin, spread, and further development. In the early 1960s, the languages Fortran (John Backus, IBM) for scientific, and Cobol (Jean Sammet, IBM, and DoD) for commercial applications dominated. Programs were written on paper, then punched on cards, and one waited a …
Understanding Deep Learning (Still) Requires Rethinking …
WEBThere are a variety of theories proposed to explain generalization. Uniform convergence, margin theory, and algorithmic stability are but a few of the important conceptual tools to reason about generalization. Central to much theory are different notions of model complexity. Corresponding generalization bounds quantify how much data is needed ...