Herbert Bruderer

Dec 5, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Henrik Skaug Sætra |Alex Tray |Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker

A spectre is haunting the social media platform known as X—a spectre of exodus. But the migration from the platform once known as Twitter to alternatives like Bluesky has also sparked warnings about another spectre–the echo chamber.

Dec 5, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Alex Tray |Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |Logan Kugler

In the past few years, HR has seen a significant transformation driven by the rise of machine learning tools and technology.1 These tools extract insights, patterns, and predict trends from massive amounts of data. HR has now shifted from traditional methods to data-driven approaches for better workplace management, productivity, and aligning HR strategies with larger business goals.

Dec 5, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Don Monroe |Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |Logan Kugler

Our increasingly digitized world is creating more data every year, including videos from ubiquitous smart phones, observations from billions of sensors and surveillance cameras, output from artificial intelligence, and much more. Until now, exponential growth in data storage capacity has largely kept pace with the flood of data at a steady cost. This trend may not continue, according to John Monroe at Furthur Market Research, who for almost 25 years, until 2022, was an analyst at Gartner.

Dec 4, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |Logan Kugler

Much has been made of the abilities of the new developments in machine intelligence and in particular of what chatbots such as ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs) are capable of. While these new pieces of software are impressive when it comes to generating text, some people in the computing community take this observation much further and, in my opinion, much too far. They claim programming will be a thing of the past.

Dec 4, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |Logan Kugler

Picture clocks were very popular in France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the 19th century. Today, they are traded as sought-after collector’s items at auctions. The paintings, which always contain a clock, often depict romantic landscapes. Some also have a striking mechanism or a music playing mechanism. The clockwork, the striking mechanism, and the cylinder musical box are wound up with a key.