Communications of the ACM
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A Brief History of Embodied Artificial Intelligence, and its Outlook
Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) integrates artificial intelligence into physical entities like robots, endowing them with the ability to perceive, learn from, and dynamically interact with their environment. This post serves as a brief review of the history of EAI, its current developments, as well as a discussion of its future outlook. 1.
Communications of the ACM
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Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity
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 ...
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 ...
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
Jul 1, 2016 · Google has shown the monolithic model of source code management can scale to a repository of one billion files, 35 million commits, and tens of thousands of developers. Benefits include unified versioning, extensive code sharing, simplified dependency management, atomic changes, large-scale refactoring, collaboration across teams, flexible code ...
A History of the History of Programming Languages
May 1, 2007 · 1 FORMAC (FORmula Manipulation Compiler) was the first language for symbolic mathematics that had significant use. See Jean E. Sammet's "The Beginning and Development of FORMAC," in History of Programming Languages, Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson, Eds. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, 1996, 429 469.. 2 See for example, Jean E. Sammet's "Roster of Programming Languages" in Computers and ...
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Communications of the ACM is the leading online and print publication for the computing and information technology fields. Read by computing’s leading professionals worldwide, Communications is recognized as the most trusted and knowledgeable source of industry information for today’s computing professional. In the traditions of the Communications print magazine, which each month brings ...
The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text
Mar 6, 2024 · The detection of LLM-generated text is an expanding and dynamic field, with numerous newly developed techniques emerging continuously. This survey provides a precise categorization and in-depth examination of existing approaches to help the research community comprehend the strengths and limitations of each method.
Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX
Figures. MINIX's longtime mascot is a raccoon, chosen because it is agile, smart, usually friendly, and eats bugs. While Linux is well known, its direct ancestor, MINIX, is now 30 and still quite spry for such aged software. Its story and how it and Linux got started is not well known, and there are perhaps some lessons to be learned from MINIX ...