Communications of the ACM
WEBAn overview of mCaptcha, a variable-difficulty-based proof-of-work captcha system that addresses the security, usability, and privacy issues with other captchas.
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 ...
Generative AI and CS Education - Communications of the ACM
WEBMar 19, 2024 · I have spent most of my career working on computer science (CS) education whether teaching undergraduate CS or managing technical education for software engineers at Google. In the early 1990s, when Pascal was the language of choice, I began teaching CS1 and CS2 at Stanford. Over the next few years, I saw the transition from Pascal to C to object-oriented programming. I also saw the pace at ...
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
WEBJul 1, 2016 · Google has shown the monolithic model of source code management can scale to a repository of one billion files, 35 million commits, and tens of thousands of developers. Benefits include unified versioning, extensive code sharing, simplified dependency management, atomic changes, large-scale refactoring, collaboration across teams, flexible code ...
Maximum Flow Through a Network: A Storied Problem and a …
WEBDec 13, 2023 · In 2022, a team of computer scientists presented a groundbreaking algorithm for the maximum flow problem: How does one transport the most supplies from a source node to a sink node in a network while respecting link capacities? This result has a wide impact on algorithmic theory because this storied problem has broad theoretical significance and practical applications. Maximum flow is an ...
Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity
WEBFeb 15, 2024 · When we set out to connect the productivity benefit of GitHub Copilot to usage measurements from developer activity, we collected measurements about acceptance of completions in line with prior work, but also developed persistence metrics, which arguably capture sustained and direct impact on the resulting code.
What is Data Science? - Communications of the ACM
WEBFeb 1, 2023 · Data Science as a Discipline. Data science integrates knowledge and skills from several disciplines, namely computer science, mathematics, statistics, and an application domain. One way to present such a relationship is using a Venn diagram. Conway 4 was the first to propose a Venn diagram …
A History of the History of Programming Languages
WEBMay 1, 2007 · The first ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference was held on June 1 3, 1978 in Los Angeles, CA. The keynote speaker was Grace Murray Hopper, who identified herself as the third “coder” on the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard.
Knowledge Graphs - Communications of the ACM
WEBMar 1, 2021 · The destinies of data and knowledge became bound together, becoming almost inseparable, by the emergence of digital computing in the mid-20th century. Knowledge Graphs can be considered the coming of age of the integration of knowledge and data at large scale with heterogeneous formats.
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
WEBJun 1, 2017 · Five ILSVRC-2010 test images in the first column. Remaining columns show the training images that produce feature vectors in the last hidden layer with the smallest Euclidean distance from the feature vector for the test image. We trained a large, deep convolutional neural network to classify the 1.2 million high-resolution images in the ImageNet LSVRC-2010 contest into the 1000 different ...