Communications of the ACM
WEBCommunications 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.
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 ...
Gauging Societal Impacts of Large Language Models
WEBAug 19, 2024 · To see what happens when people interact with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in realistic settings, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new program to test large language models (LLMs). “Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) aims to help organizations and individuals determine whether a …
Communications of the ACM
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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.
A History of the History of Programming Languages
WEBMay 1, 2007 · 1 FORMAC (FORmula Manipulation Compiler) was the first language for symbolic mathematics that had significant use. See Jean E. Sammet's "The Beginning and Development of FORMAC," in History of Programming Languages, Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson, Eds. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, 1996, 429 469.. 2 See for example, Jean E. Sammet's "Roster of Programming Languages" in Computers and ...
Societal Impacts of Embodied AI – Communications of the ACM
WEBAug 21, 2024 · This discussion explores EAI’s potential societal impacts, considering its ability to reshape social structures and daily life [1]. EAI challenges existing legal frameworks, creating regulatory uncertainties as governments struggle to keep pace with technological advancements. Economically, while EAI …
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 ...
Memory Models: A Case For Rethinking Parallel Languages and …
WEBAug 1, 2010 · A valuable discipline, therefore, is to provide a guarantee of determinism by default; when non-determinism is inherently required, it should be requested explicitly and should not interfere with the deterministic guarantees for the remaining program. 7 There is much prior work in deterministic data parallel, functional, and actor languages. Our focus is on general-purpose efforts that ...
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 ...