Prediction markets offer a way to wager on everything, yet commercial exchanges also raise concerns about accuracy, market manipulation, and the possibility that a big bet could motivate someone to commit an illegal act.
How should we think about them? buff.ly/LLpT2HU
In this week’s People of ACM, we interview ACM Fellow Sylvia Ratnasamy, who leads UC Berkeley's NetSys research group. Ratnasamy offers a forward-looking perspective on the innovations set to drive faster speeds and ever-growing data traffic. Read the interview here:
Welcome to the latest #AdvancesInComputing!
In this edition:
- 👨💻 Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI
- 🔐 From Distributed Intelligence to Verifiable Responsibility
- ⚙️ Computing After Carbon
and more.
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Nowadays, we live with the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. How did the once-obscure field of UX design change the world we inhabit?
Read along with us and register for the final discussion with the book's co-author, Cliff Kuang of Google DeepMind: buff.ly/dN36nfL
Join us for our Spring/Summer Book Club, featuring User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant.
ACM Prize in Computing Honors Matei Zaharia for Foundational Contributions to Data and Machine Learning Systems
@acm.org #HPC #MachineLearning #ACM #HPCwire
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Zaharia is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Co-Founder and CTO of Databricks. His doctoral dissertation on Spark received the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (buff.ly/MZj0dZm).
Congratulations to Matei Zaharia on receiving the 2025 #ACMPrize in Computing! He is recognized for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure which has enabled large-scale #machinelearning, analytics, and #AI at a global scale. buff.ly/TrYHoci
“Ever wondered what makes an #LLM really tick—what’s behind the colorful pinball-machine metaphors?”
Learn more about #parameters here: buff.ly/5tzH5tu #TechNews
Meet Yuxin Chen, a professor of Statistics and Data Science and of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Request a lecture with Chen here: buff.ly/9iauYGX
“An era of glaring inequality was also a golden age of graft.”
Looking for interesting weekend reads? This excerpt will offer you a glimpse into the operation of the ever-increasing cyber scams around all of us:
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#TechNews #weekendreads
In this new issue of our popular Substack newsletter, "Queue: in Practice," the author unpacks why it’s so complicated to conduct and interpret data analysis.
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#Substack #dataanalysis #ACMNewsletter
🧵 ACM just responded to NIST's RFI on benchmarking AI: current AI evaluation best practices have critical blind spots. Our feedback to their RFI on automated benchmarks flags 4 major gaps that could undermine safety claims and regulatory compliance. Here's what we're saying.
”They were there since before quantum computing was even a field.“ --Scott Aaronson. Check out Ben Brubaker's Quanta piece on the story behind the accomplishments of the 2026 ACM Turing Laureates Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett. buff.ly/GDqzLXk #ACMTuringAward
#OTD in 1922, the first #ACMTuringAward recipient, Alan Perlis was born. Perlis received the award in 1966 for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. Read more about his career: amturing.acm.org/award_winner... #computerscience
Today in 1939, Harvard University and IBM agreed to build what became the Harvard Mark I, later known as the “Giant Brain.” For more #computinghistory milestones: www.acm.org/education/ot...
HBD, Edwin Catmull! Together with Patrick M. Hanrahan, Catmull received the 2019 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics, and the impact of computer-generated imagery (#CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
"The concept of poetry has changed significantly throughout time, even within the same language."
Can AI truly master creative writing?
Learn more about the core challenges of improving the creative writing capabilities of LLMs now: buff.ly/abOixNX
#TechNews #creativewriting #LLMs
HBD, Leslie Valiant! Valiant received the 2010 #ACMTuringAward for transformative contributions to the theory of computation. In this video, he discusses why he decided to pursue learning as the "fundamental theoretical building block" of artificial intelligence.
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Meet Bertrand Meyer, a pioneer of software engineering and object technology. His ACM awards include: Software System Award, ACM Fellow and ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Educator Award for his "inverted curriculum" approach to teaching programming.
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In this week's People of ACM, we interview Fred Chong, Professor, University of Chicago, and ACM Fellow for work in computer architecture, compilation, and optimization. Read here:
Researchers in Europe are attempting to develop soft robotic artificial hearts that overcome the infection, clotting, and rejection risks of today’s technologies.
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#TechNews
In this edition of "Advances In Computing":
- the complex technical challenges of Docker 👨💻
- how to reject digital dominion 🤠
- the regulatory consequences of interface choices in AI systems 🎨
and more!
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Finished the book but still have questions? Come celebrate with us tomorrow and meet the author!
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Researchers are rethinking chip architectures:
"It’s increasingly clear that the future of cooling lies at the intersection of chip design, thermal management, and systems integration."
Learn more: buff.ly/KGL1Dwc
#TechNews #semiconductor
Happy Birthday to Edmund Berkeley, a pioneer who helped found the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947 and introduced the public to computers through his book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think — helping shape the early computing community.
#ComputingHistory #ACM #PioneerPOV
Join us in the upcoming #ACMDSPLecture, "Gender-Inclusive Software and Beyond" with speaker Margaret Burnett of Oregon State University. The in-person event will take place on Apr 8, 2026. More info here: buff.ly/tk8TOv8
#distinguishedspeaker #computing #tech
On this day in 1927, 1975 #ACMTuringAward Laureate Allen Newell was born. Newell received the award with co-recipient Herbert A. Simon for making basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
“The last tool you reach for is the one that can cut you most deeply.”
Check out the latest edition of "Queue: In Practice,” a new ACM newsletter series available only on #Substack.
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