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Remembering Grace Hopper – Communications of the ACM
4 days ago · Posted Nov 11 2024. Join the Discussion. The second week of each December, Computer Science Education Week introduces K-12 students to computer science. This timing was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, December 9, 1906. Rear Admiral Hopper is well known to the CS community for her many contributions to computing.
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Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity
Feb 15, 2024 · Code-completion systems offering suggestions to a developer in their integrated development environment (IDE) have become the most frequently used kind of programmer assistance. 1 When generating whole snippets of code, they typically use a large language model (LLM) to predict what the user might type next (the completion) from the context of what they are working on at the moment (the prompt ...
AI Reinvents Chip Design – Communications of the ACM
Aug 22, 2024 · This has led to today’s complex multi-core processors, System-on-Chip (SoC) integrations, power and thermal management gains, and numerous other improvements. AI is completely rewriting the equation, however. It is introducing new ideas, concepts, methodologies, and tools that drive gains in design optimization, design synthesis, performance ...
Beyond Turing: Testing LLMs for Intelligence
Aug 12, 2024 · In 2023, researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) conducted a public Turing test designed to compare the performance of the most recent LLMs with that of Eliza, a chatbot developed in the 1960s. GPT-4, the version that scored high on the bar exam, did pretty well, passing as human in the judges’ estimation in 41% of the ...
The Energy Footprint of Humans and Large Language Models
Jun 7, 2024 · Restricting the analysis to electricity, in the U.S. it is around 12,500 kWh per person per year [3]. Assuming an 8-hour workday and considering 260 workdays per year brings the annual energy cost of one person’s hour of daily work to around 6 kWh [a]. Now for the energy cost of running an LLM. We have set a target of 250 words in an hour.
Software Engineering Code of Ethics Is Approved
Oct 1, 1999 · Software Engineering now has its own Code of Ethics. The Code has been adopted by both the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, having gone through an extensive review process that culminated in the official unanimous approval by the leadership of both professional organizations. Here, we discuss the major changes that took place between version ...
The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education
Jul 30, 2024 · The findings “suggest that we should expect the effects of AI automation to be smaller than the existing job automation/destruction effects already seen in the economy,” the study says. “Whether adding AI automation of these existing effects will substantially increase overall job destruction is unclear.”. While there is likely to be ...
How Does a Pantograph Work? – Communications of the ACM
Mar 2, 2020 · It embodies a parallelogram. The opposite interior angles are equal and the sum of two adjacent interior angles is 180°. The two diagonals are halved. The rods are connected via articulated joints. The pole (fixed pivot), tracer point, and drawing pen all lie on a …