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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 ...
A Brief History of Embodied Artificial Intelligence, and its Outlook
Apr 29, 2024 · Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) integrates artificial intelligence into physical entities like robots, endowing them with the ability to perceive, learn from, and dynamically interact with their environment. This post serves as a brief review of the history of EAI, its current developments, as well as a discussion of its future outlook. 1.
Communications of the ACM
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Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity
Feb 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
Jan 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 ...
Green AI – Communications of the ACM
Dec 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 …
Software Engineering Code of Ethics Is Approved
Oct 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 ...
Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language
Nov 1, 2023 · We can all learn from this story. IBM designed PL/I with the goal of bringing together the power of three programming languages: FORTRAN (1954), ALGOL (1958), and COBOL (1959). FORTRAN—The scientific programming language. COBOL—The business programming language. ALGOL—Primarily a research …
The First Computer Program – Communications of the ACM
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 ...