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How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
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"To take humans back to the Moon, NASA has engineered a "fail-silent" architecture that handles everything from cosmic-ray bit flips to total processor divergence."https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/
8.4.2026
#Artemis #ArtemisII #BFS #Computer #Ethernet #FCM #MPCV #Netzwerk #Orion #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #VanAllenBelts
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Time for some soul searching, people.
Are you a techno-optimist, a techno-pessimist, or a techno-realist?
Find out in this CACM opinion piece: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/techno-optimism-techno-pessimism-and-techno-realism/
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"In the qubit revolution, sustainability needs to be a forethought, not an afterthought."
What are the opportunities and challenges of benchmarking carbon in the quantum computing life cycle? Find out here: https://cacm.acm.org/research/sustainable-quantum-computing/
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Looking forward to getting the January issues of #CACM and #Interactions in the mail. #UMAP2026 @abellogin @ACM @sigchi @sigweb
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Check it out: a roundtable discussion between a computing researcher and three senior Google engineers on the pivotal role of academia and the impact of federal funding on innovation.
Available via #CACM's special issue on Federal Funding on Academic Research: https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/from-university-research-to-global-impact/
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Are outputs of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies, such as texts, images, and music, eligible for copyright protection? In a recent column for #CACM, author Pamela Samuelson reviews the evolving policy views of the U.S. Copyright Office that address the copyrightability of outputs question. Learn more here: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-authorship-revisited/
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Accounting for the emotional state of the person who wrote that code
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Secure analytics platform engineered to protect patients' medical records could find application in other privacy-sensitive settings
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Multisensory experiences can engage all of our senses, immersing us in other worlds. But creating them brings both opportunities and responsibilities. Watch Marianna Obrist discuss "Multisensory Experiences: Formation, Realization, and Responsibilities," a Research Article in the April 2025 #CACM.
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💡Presenting the latest edition of our popular newsletter, "Advancing in Computing!" Dive into an excerpt and three top-notch articles curated by our #CACM editors. Want to stay ahead in #tech? Subscribe to receive notifications about our latest releases! https://bit.ly/3BdySbW
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Looking for the perfect #summerreads to quench your thirst for knowledge on artificial intelligence? We have four captivating articles that will keep you engaged and informed all season long!
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Just finished attending an insightful #cacm talk with Titus Winters on design in testability - now want to catch up with his previous one I missed https://learning.acm.org/techtalks/softwareworkflow
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The cover research article of the latest Communications of the ACM is “Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity” written by….a bunch of GitHub employees. The findings are mind numbing:
“… a big impact on developer productivity.”“…suggestion correctness is important, the driving factor for these improvements appears to be not correctness”
It’s an ad with pretty graphs disguised as research. What a sham.
https://cacm.acm.org/research/measuring-github-copilots-impact-on-productivity/
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Yael Tauman Kalai, recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, has developed groundbreaking methods for succinctly verifying the correctness of a computation. Recently she sat down with Leah Hoffmann to discuss how they work. Read it here via CACM's relaunched #OpenAccess website: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/verifying-correctness/
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CACM Is Now Open Access | Communications of the ACM
I rather wish that this had happened a few decades ago, when it would have been much more transformative than today
https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/
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CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM
<https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/>
More than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone, regardless of whether they are members of ACM or subscribe to the ACM Digital Library. …
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559411> begins with a comment from James Larus, Editor-in-Chief:
Changing the economic basis of a thriving industry is an enormous challenge (how long has open source software been around?). ACM has publicly committed to making all its content open-access by 2026 (https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess). I'm still waiting to hear Microsoft or Facebook make a similar commitment (-:.
It has taken years because the worldwide research community must change from the "readers and libraries pay" model to "writers pay." For ACM, the transition is well underway. Many ACM conferences are now open access, and I'm happy to say that CACM is now fully open access as well (previously, it was just the older issues).
Opening CACM's content and creating a new website was a deliberate decision to try to make CACM into a central forum for the technical community to exchange ideas and debate issues. ACM is well aware that this community is orders of magnitude larger than its membership, so opening access to its flagship publication is an essential first step.
There are many technical websites and blogs online; most are focused on specific topics and areas or intended for readers who may not have a technical background. CACM's remit is computing in general, and we assume our readers are technically literate.
Please contribute (https://cacm.acm.org/author-guidelines/). CACM offers a range of options: informal blog posts, short Viewpoint pieces, and longer Research and Practice articles. We would like to hear from you!
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📄 Knowing What You Need to Know | February #AD2024 | #CACM @ACM
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/2/279530-knowing-what-you-need-to-know/fulltext
"… She called the requester's cell phone and interviewed him until she had everything she would need to do the task without interruption. …"#@Limoncelli
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So Communications of the ACM #CACM prints straight up right wing propaganda now, huh?
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@ACM I think it would also be a nice gesture to make #Wirth's last article in #CACM freely accessible to everyone.
Nikaus Wirth: “50 Years of Pascal.” In Communications of the ACM, March 2021 (vol. 64, no. 3). https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250705-50-years-of-pascal/fulltext
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Wow, for a #CACM article, https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/9/275685-shining-a-light-on-the-dark-web/fulltext is surprisingly erroneous and mixes up different terms and concepts about #Tor and #DarkWeb (e.g., I've never before seen any basis for a claim that "Freenet was the basis for the Tor", and it again mostly equates Tor with the dark web without proper definition of the latter). Yes, a lot of the errors are in direct or indirect quotes - but why quote it without reflecting on the content and using those quotes as fact?
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"Tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can support itself." Latest think piece from #ACMTuringAward recipient Vint Cerf. https://bit.ly/3G0zmC4
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“…we now have the world's most used chatbot, governed by training data that nobody knows about, obeying an algorithm that is only hinted at, glorified by the media, and yet with ethical guardrails that only sorta kinda work and that are driven more by text similarity than any true moral calculus…”
Gary Marcus has a good piece in the #cacm about the ##HYPE around #ChatBotGPT https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/269854-inside-the-heart-of-chatgpts-darkness/fulltext
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#Processing drawing infrastructure, out of the box, doesn't come with a "dashed line" primitive, or sophisticated line styles. Golan Levin and Tega Brain (Code as Creative Medium, 2021) propose writing a function for that as a small exercise. How to tackle it? How would you draw a dashed line if you only had a simple line() function for drawing?
My first intuition I think would be to use #lerp to get intermediary points along the line. I have often used some kind of "lerp tuple" strategy for coordinates. What would you do?
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Found in bookshelf #AnitaBorg copy of #CACM with #Stonebreaker's article on OS support for databases. 1981. Never returned.
