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1 week ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Sam Greengard |Allyn Jackson
In early 2023, Matt Welsh wrote an opinion piece in Communications of the ACM that described programmers as dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit. Welsh, now director of AI Systems at Palantir Technologies, expressed in his article, “The End of Programming,” that he believes the traditional idea of writing a program is headed for extinction, and most software will be written by artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are trained, rather than programmed.
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1 week ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Sam Greengard |Allyn Jackson |Bennie Mols
Nothing is more fundamentally human than identity. How we think about ourselves shapes our experiences and how we navigate the world. Yet, the idea of identity existing as a unique quality anchored to a specific individual is undergoing change.
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1 week ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Gregory Mone |Allyn Jackson |Bennie Mols |Doug Meil
This year, U.S. rail carrier Amtrak will be installing two novel inspection gateways from Duos Technologies along its busy Northeast Corridor. The barn-like Duos structures straddle railway tracks; as passenger trains speed through at up to 125 miles per hour, 97 cameras and dozens of LED lights arrayed around the sides, top, and bottom of the tracks will capture thousands of high-resolution images of the railcars.
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1 week ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Bennie Mols |Allyn Jackson |Doug Meil
It was only 15 to 20 years ago that social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X), YouTube, and Instagram were hailed as drivers of social connections, multipliers of knowledge and experiences, and even as catalysts for better-functioning democracy.
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1 week ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Allyn Jackson |Bennie Mols |Doug Meil
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are workhorses of science and engineering. They describe a vast range of phenomena, from flow around a ship’s hull, to acoustics in a concert hall, to heat diffusion in a material.
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2 months ago | 
cacm.acm.org | Allyn Jackson |R. Colin Johnson |Carlos Baquero |Doug Meil
Irit Dinur's journey through mathematics and computer science led her to become the first woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics. For the first time in its 95-year history, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ, has appointed a woman as a permanent professor in its School of Mathematics.
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May 22, 2024 | 
sueddeutsche.de | Allyn Jackson
HomeWissenMathematikMathematik:"Wie hat Don das nur gemacht?"22. Mai 2024, 8:51 UhrLesezeit: 5 minDon Zagier, der Zahlen-Zauberer. (Foto: MPIM)Der Mathematiker Don Zagier hat kürzlich den Heinz-Gumin-Preis erhalten, den höchstdotierten deutschen Mathematik-Preis. Über einen Forscher, der manchen Kollegen als Superheld gilt, und seine Abenteuer in der Welt der Zahlen.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
sueddeutsche.de | Allyn Jackson
Der Informatiker Avi Wigderson hat kürzlich den mit einer Million Dollar dotierten Turing-Award erhalten. Er hat bahnbrechende Arbeiten zum Zufall geleistet - aber unter Kollegen ist er für etwas anderes berühmt. Die Informatikerin Michal Feldman war zu Besuch an der Harvard University, als sie eine Einladung zu einem Vortrag am renommierten Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton erhielt. Die Einladung kam von IAS-Professor Avi Wigderson, einem Giganten auf ihrem Gebiet.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Allyn Jackson
For close to half a century, the problem of P versus NP has resisted resolution. It also has inspired a tremendous flowering of the field of theoretical computer science and led to an explosion of interconnections to other branches of science and engineering.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Allyn Jackson
View as:PrintMobile AppShare:Susan Landau has received several awards in her career as an expert in computer privacy and security, but the most recent, the 2024 Bertrand Russell Prize of the American Mathematical Society, holds special meaning for her. The prize, which honors contributions by mathematicians that "promote good in the world," has a connection to one of her heroes, nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat.
