The Trump administration may suspend OPT, a program for foreign students to stay in the U.S. to get 1 or 2 years of occupational training after their educations...NBC News From ACM News | May 19, 2020
The rise of proctoring software to deter cheating alarms privacy advocates. Some students and professors find it invasive, too.
The New York Times From ACM News | May 12, 2020
Azer Bestavros, associate provost for computing and data sciences at Boston University, describes the toll his month-long ordeal with the coronavirus took on his...BU Today From ACM Opinion | May 7, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based technique to help educators rapidly develop intelligent computerized tutoring...Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute From ACM TechNews | May 1, 2020
Kotlin has been the fastest-growing programming language over the past two years, according to developer analyst SlashData.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2020
States race to upgrade their legacy mainframe systems to meet the cascade of unemployment claims caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
John Delaney From ACM News | April 21, 2020
In recent years, there's been serious talk about how to build the Metaverse, the next version of the Internet, and who will build it first.
The Washington Post From ACM News | April 21, 2020
The quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted teachers to utilize popular video games to conduct lessons on a range of topics.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2020
The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a supervised learning revolution, as researchers teach computers to recognize patterns and learn from them....The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University's Maria Florina “Nina” Balcan has been named recipient of the 2019 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for her contributions to minimally supervised...Association for Computing Machinery From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2020
The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Keith Kirkpatrick From ACM News | April 7, 2020
Students using immersive virtual reality did not learn significantly better than those who used computer-simulated or hands-on learning methods, according to a...Cornell Chronicle (NY) From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2020
A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is one of several dozen teams enlisted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to adapt their annual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2020
Hillel Furstenberg of Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University's Gregory Margulis share this year's Abel Prize in mathematics for trailblazing...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2020
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
Gregory Mone From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2020
Lamport said thinking mathematically can help programmers clarify their thinking and make programs more efficient.
Singapore Management University From ACM News | March 4, 2020