Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How Charles Bachman Invented the DBMS, a Foundation of Our Digital World
His 1963 Integrated Data Store set the template for all subsequent database management systems.
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Software and Souls; Programs and Packages
How can historians tell stories about software without focusing solely on the code itself?
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Seven Lessons From Bad History
Journalists, historians, and the invention of email.
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