Dismissing academic computing research as irrelevant, given the size of Big Tech, would be a grave mistake.

As darkness fell over the land of Entities, everyone hurried to submit their daily activity reports for Masterodes review.

Computer science research famously distinguishes itself from other fields by the prevalent role of conferences as a publication venue rather than just a meeting opportunity. For two decades, academics ...

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to ...

Communications of the ACM (CACM) is the ACM’s flagship magazine. It is sent to all ACM members and its articles are available open access. Although CACM has long had a strong academic and research ...

Another research line that Rus is excited about to make robots smarter was inspired by the development of large language ...

Turing Award recipients Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto believe reinforcement learning will play a role in artificial general ...

Let’s move on to temporal difference learning (TD learning), which is a subset of reinforcement learning that was the focus ...

The computer scientists of the 1960s had high hopes for the way humans and intelligent machines would work with each other. In separate essays that date back more than half a century, Joseph Licklider ...

In philosophy, an “existential crisis” refers to a state of questioning one’s purpose, meaning, and place in the world. This concept now reflects the state of both the humanities and computer science ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) started making waves a few years ago with the release of systems such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. They are able to produce sophisticated and human-like text, code, ...