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Regs Needed for High-Risk AI, ACM Says–‘It’s the Wild West’

The probability of AI going off the rails and hurting people has increased considerably thanks to the explosion in use of generative AI technologies, such as ChatGPT. That, in turn, is making it necessary to regulate cer Read more…

Databricks Scores ACM SIGMOD Awards for Spark and Photon

Databricks announced it has won two awards at the ACM SIGMOD (Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in the Management of Data) Conference in Philadelphia. Apache Spark was awarded the SIGMOD Sy Read more…

The Data Science of Digital Alchemy

In nature, particles will spontaneously self-assemble into crystalline structures that have certain properties. Humans have learned how to leverage this behavior to create beneficial materials in the lab, but we’re lim Read more…

What Is Data Science? A Turing Award Winner Shares His View

The phrase “data science” is used every day, including in this very publication. We feel like we have an idea what it is. But what exactly is it? For one answer, we turn to Jeffrey Ullman, who won the Turing Award in Read more…

What’s Challenging in Big Data Now: Integration and Privacy

It's been said many times before, but it's worth stating again: big data presents large opportunities for improving business and society, but it also involves sizable computing challenges, as well as moral challenges. A Read more…

This Just In

Margo Seltzer Named ACM Athena Lecturer for Technical and Mentoring Contributions

Apr 26, 2023 |

NEW YORK, April 26, 2023 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Margo Seltzer, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, as the 2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer. Read more…

ACM Prize in Computing Recognizes Yael Tauman Kalai for Fundamental Contributions to Cryptography

Apr 13, 2023 |

NEW YORK, April 13, 2023 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Read more…

SIGKDD Honors Groundbreaking Achievements in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Aug 13, 2021 |

SINGAPORE, Aug. 13, 2021 — The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced the recipients of the 2021 ACM SIGKDD Awards for exemplary individuals and research teams in data science, machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Read more…

Military Research Speeds up Threat Detection, Prevention for Army Missions

May 5, 2020 |

ADELPHI, Md., May 5, 2020 — Threat detection and prevention are essential to ensuring the safety and security of warfighters. Researchers have developed a way to speed up the processing of extremely large graphs and data, making the most efficient use of modern Army computational resources before and during Soldier deployment. Read more…

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