ACM Updates Code of Ethics
ACM has updated its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The revised Code of Ethics addresses the significant advances in computing technology since the 1992 version, as well as the growing pervasiveness of computing in all aspects of society. ACM’s Code of Ethics is considered the standard for the computing profession, and has been adopted by computing professionals, organizations and technology companies around the world. The Code is a collection of principles and guidelines designed to help computing professionals make ethically responsible decisions in professional practice.
Meet Joel Branch
Joel Branch is the Director of Platform Development and AI Architect at Lucd, a company that helps businesses leverage complex datasets for artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning applications. He is Program Committee Chair of the 2018 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, and is a member of ACM and the Black Data Processing Associates. “We still need to emphasize that diversity is absolutely essential for innovation—especially ethical innovation.”
ACM Launches New Award to Recognize Breakthrough Achievements
The ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award celebrates the late pioneer's contributions in computing and his inspirational mentorship of generations of computer scientists, by recognizing individuals with the same out-of-the-box thinking and “can-do” approach to solving the unsolved that Thacker exhibited. Financial support for the $100,000 prize is provided by Microsoft. Nominations are now open and will be accepted through January 15, 2019.
UC Berkeley to Host ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Colloquium
On Wednesday afternoons this fall, awardees of the ACM A.M. Turing Award will reflect on their time at the University of California, Berkeley between 1970 and 1990, while looking toward the future of research and technological development in their fields. The participants are Richard Karp, William Kahan, Manuel Blum, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Silvio Micali, Shafi Goldwasser, Michael Stonebraker, and David Patterson. Lectures are open to the public and will be livestreamed.
womENcourage 2018, October 3 to 5, Belgrade, Serbia
Registration is now open for the 5th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2018. The three-day event includes a hackathon, workshops, posters, technical talks, and panel discussions. Keynote speaker Kathleen Richardson, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK will open the Celebration. Google's Radha Narayan will deliver the closing keynote.
Ubicomp 2018, October 8 to 12, Singapore
The 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing will feature workshops on mobile human interactivity and more. The keynote talk will be delivered by Kentaro Toyama, W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT
RecSys 2018, October 2 to 7, Vancouver, Canada
RecSys 2018 will explore the intriguing world of recommender systems. Presented by ACM SIGCHI, the conference will bring together the main international research groups working in the field, along with many of the world’s leading e-commerce companies. Delivering keynote addresses are Elizabeth F. Churchill, Director of User Experience at Google and ACM's Vice President; Lise Getoor of University of Califorinia, Santa Cruz; and Christopher Berry of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News release
Proceedings of the ACM Series
Proceedings of the ACM (PACM) is a journal series that launched in 2017. The series was created in recognition of the fact that conference-centric publishing disadvantages the CS community with respect to other scientific disciplines when competing with researchers from other disciplines for top science awards and career progression, and the fact that top ACM conferences have demonstrated high quality and high impact on the field. See PACMs on Programming Languages, Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, and HCI.
Meet Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros is a Professor of Databases at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She has coordinated large multidisciplinary projects, including applications in agro-environmental planning and biodiversity. She is a former President of the Brazilian Computer Society and currently serves as a Member of the Council of the Research Data Alliance, and as a Member-at-Large of the ACM Council. “Heterogeneity is not just a matter of collecting data, but also of different ways of looking at the world.”
Participate in a Global Survey of Scientists
The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists needs people in mathematical, computing and natural sciences, including students, to share their career and educational experiences. The data being collected will include focused information about women in these fields. The survey is being conducted by The Gender Gap in Science project, funded by the International Council for Science, a collaboration of several organizations including ACM.
CACM Oct. 2018 - Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?
The recent successes of neural networks in applications like speech recognition, vision, and autonomous navigation has led to great excitement by members of the artificial intelligence (AI) community, as well as by the general public. Over a relatively short time, by the science clock, we managed to automate some tasks that have defied us for decades, using one of the more classical techniques due to AI research. The triumph of these achievements has led some to describe the automation of these tasks as having reached human-level intelligence. In this video, Adnan Darwiche discusses "Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities?", a Contributed Article in the October 2018 issue of Communications of the ACM.
Prediction-Serving Systems
ACM Queue’s “Research for Practice” is your number one resource for keeping up with emerging developments in the world of theory and applying them to the challenges you face on a daily basis. In this installment, Dan Crankshaw and Joey Gonzalez provide an overview of machine learning server systems. What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production, and how do we serve predictions with high accuracy and high computational efficiency? Dan and Joey’s curated research selection presents cutting-edge techniques spanning database-level integration, video processing, and prediction middleware. Given the explosion of interest in machine learning and its increasing impact on seemingly every application vertical, it's possible that systems such as these will become as commonplace as relational databases are today.
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ACM Expresses Concern About New Executive Order Suspending Visas
The Association for Computing Machinery, a global scientific and educational organization representing the computing community, expresses concern over US President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order imposing suspension of visas to nationals of six countries.
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