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With the surge in emerging technologies such as Metaverse, spatial computing, and generative AI, the application of facial style transfer has gained much interest from researchers and startups enthusiasts alike. StyleGAN methods have paved the ...

• A novel facial style transfer method for preserving facial structure is proposed.
• The extrinsic and intrinsic style transformers are trained in hierarchical fashion.
• Fusion of pre-trained style transfer networks to generate ...

In December 2023, the New York Times Company filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for the "defendants' unlawful use of The Time's work to create artificial intelligence products..." [8]. While this lawsuit alone should interest the Computers and ...

The position postulated in this Parting Opinion is quite simple: the answer to the question posed in the title is a resounding NO for many people; no matter which of the categories you're in. Hopefully, you're curious to know why I believe this. If you ...

The motivation of this research (and also one of the nation’s cyber goals) is enhancing the resilience of Industrial Control Systems (ICS)/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems against ransomware attacks. ICS and SCADA systems run some ...

This workshop will provide participants with hands-on learning experiences to familiarize them with the Computing for Social Good in Education (CSG-Ed) community and the methods CSG-Ed uses to create socially relevant classroom computing activities. CSG-...

This paper describes one CS department's experiences with introducing Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) activities in CS classrooms. POGIL is an active and collaborative learning methodology, in which students work together in small ...

Professional codes of ethics and conduct provide a convenient pedagogy for teaching students to consider social, ethical, and professional issues related to computing. Case studies offer a means for using these codes to analyze such issues, which ...

"Once upon a time on Tralfamdore there were creatures who weren't anything like machines...And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose...And the machines did everything so expertly that they were ...

The current ACM/IEEE/AAAI Computer Science Curricula is approaching ten years of age. The CS2023 Steering Committee began efforts to update this important document in spring 2021 (csed.acm.org). The aim of this session is to seek feedback from the ...

As part of my volunteer work with ACM and faculty position at Regis University, I have the honor to meet with numerous talented people from the computing community. In this community, I've found two opinions, with respect to the global climate crisis, ...

Early one July morning, my husband and I were sipping our coffee and catching up on news when he made a comment that I couldn't ignore. He said something to the effect of: "what an immature response".

Recently, I've been thinking about the question, Who do We want to work for and why?, where 'we' refers to the computing community. Apparently, I'm not the only one reflecting on this question.

It is safe to say that most colleges and universities do a good job of graduating programmers that continue in the field as their life profession. Often these professionals are relied upon for specific functions, for example, writing interfaces to ...

In May and June 2021, the author conducted a survey of the computing and mathematical graduation requirements of 500 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) programs in the U.S. to determine alignment among these requirements and those recommended ...

Recently, I've been thinking about differences in the treatment of ethics across the computing, business, legal, and medical disciplines/professions. Each of these professions appears to be concerned that its practitioners act ethically with associated ...

It was a typical Friday morning. I had finished breakfast and moved on to my new practice of spending 15 minutes following a Shaolin breathing and movement exercise that I hoped would increase my flexibility and calm in my body. With just about 1 minute ...

A recent New York Times movie review begins, "with `Don't Look Up' Adam McKay makes a star-studded allegorical satire that shows the news media whistling past the climate-change graveyard" [2], which got me to thinking about satire with respect to ...

On December 9, 2021, Apache announced a zero-day vulnerability in Apache Log4j [3]. As the news broke, tech companies and computing administrators scrambled to push out recommended mitigations. If you are reading this, chances are you already heard ...

Beginning with the work of the ACM Curricular Committee on Computer Science in the early 1960s, and continuing approximately every decade since, ACM members have contributed to establishing curricular guidelines for undergraduate computer science ...