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Description: Lets discuss these 3 great articles with Tea/Coffee from IEEE Welcome to the March 17, 2025 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for computer professionals three times a week. 1 in 4 U.S. Programming Jobs Vanish More than 25% of all computer programming jobs in the U.S. have disappeared in the past two years, with the occupation now ranking among the 10 hardest-hit of 420-plus jobs for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data. There are fewer programmers today in the U.S. than at any point since 1980. At the same time, jobs for software developers have fallen just 0.3%, similar to the broader industry. and AI Is Changing the Way Computers Are Built AI is fueling the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the Internet. Just as companies completely rebuilt their computer systems to accommodate the new commercial Internet in the 1990s, they are now rebuilding from the bottom up, wiring together up to 100,000 chips to create powerful AI systems. The industry is also looking at new ways to house, power, and cool these systems to keep them from over-heating. and Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Know: 'Who Does AI Work For?' At the South by Southwest conference, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, an ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate, raised the question of who AI works for. Even if AI models are reliable, accurate, and unbiased, there will be concerns about whether company or user interests are paramount. Said Berners-Lee, "I want AIs to work for me to make the choices that I want to make. I don't want an AI that's trying to sell me something." Best regards Agenda: 5:00 Intro 5:15 Discussing these great articles 7:00 Adjourn Bldg: Starbucks, 6 Flagstone Dr, Hudson, New Hampshire, United States, 03051