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The Hadoop Ecosystem's Continued Impact
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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. 

ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity
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ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity

It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.

AI Does Not Help Programmers
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AI Does Not Help Programmers

Getting past the"Wow" effect.

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4
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Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4

We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.

Navigating the 2023 Cybersecurity Landscape
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Navigating the 2023 Cybersecurity Landscape

The importance of information security technologies cannot be overstated, given how deeply integrated gadgets have become in our lives.

Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff
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Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff

Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.

Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics
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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.

How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
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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,...

Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms
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Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms

The inherent risks associated with passwords stem from their very nature.

A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions
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A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions

Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.

Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values
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Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values

The FIRST ISRAEL organization is working to increase its presence in the Israeli geographic periphery by exploiting Israel's social orientation and its strength...

400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
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400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines

Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."

Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk
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Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk

"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things"—but we must try.

How Is History Shaping My Ph.D. Research? Unexpectedly!
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How Is History Shaping My Ph.D. Research? Unexpectedly!

Unexpected events can be viewed as good opportunities to gain new insights about a research topic.

ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
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ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?

The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires....

What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
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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...

A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space
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A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space

From digital ownership to artistic communities.

The Imperativity of Algorithms
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The Imperativity of Algorithms

The important named algorithms that we call upon deserve a robust ontology.

Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory
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Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory

Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.
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