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The Hadoop Ecosystem's Continued Impact
Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
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Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics
Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.
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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science,...
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What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE...
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A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space
From digital ownership to artistic communities.
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Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Two
"When I heard we will be learning Python, I became anxious."
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Cybersecurity Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
Preventing unauthorized access or misuse of confidential data.
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Twiddler: Configurability for Me, but Not for Thee
Online platform businesses have a distinctly more abusive and sinister character than brick-and-mortar retail chains.
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The Urgency of the Technological, Geopolitical, and Sustainability Races
The HiPEAC Vision 2023.
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How Not to Test GPT-3
Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think.
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Why *is* Bing So Reckless?
And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?
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Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower
With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like GitHub CoPilot, I think we’re a step closer towards a world where software can be created by anyone...
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ChatGPT for Provost!
Three to five years from now, we won’t be talking about what ChatGPT can or can’t do, but we could be talking about how ChatGPT brought us all together, and the...
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What is an Author?
In a single-author text (such as this one), we can assume a lot about the process. In the multi-author case, all these assumptions start to break down.
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The Need For Combined Data And Analytic Governance
Numbers don't mean anything if people don't understand, or trust, the computation behind them.
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Evaluating Research Results for Practical Applications
The role of the application of research results in assessing the achievements of scientists.
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Large Language Models like ChatGPT say The Darnedest Things
ChatGPT makes the same kinds of mistakes its predecessors did. What can and should we do about it?
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