Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Not Seeing the Crime For the Cameras?
Why it is difficult — but essential — to monitor the effectiveness of security technologies.
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Q&A: Researcher Karsten Nohl on Mobile Eavesdropping
Last week brought some bad news for mobile phone users. German security expert Karsten Nohl demonstrated how easy it is to eavesdrop on GSM-based (Global System...
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Is Aviation Security Mostly For Show?
Last week's attempted terror attack on an airplane heading from Amsterdam to Detroit has given rise to a bunch of familiar questions. How did the explosives get...
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TSA To Save Print Media? No Electronics On International Flights? What A Joke.
With the caveat that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has yet to confirm any of this on its Web site, there are several indications that orders have...
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The Evolution of Platform Thinking
How platform adoption can be an important determinant of product and technological success.
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A Cynic
On July 17, 2008, Senator Barack Obama held a town hall meeting on national security at Purdue University. He and his panel covered issues of nuclear, biological...
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Connecting with an Internet Pioneer, 40 Years Later
Forty years ago—on December 5, 1969—the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer network nodes at the University...
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Broken Builds
Frequent broken builds could be symptomatic of deeper problems within a development project.
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Computing's Paradigm
Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.
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Israel's Technology Industry as an Economic Growth Engine
How government-industry collaboration can have far-reaching economic influences.
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Opening Remarks
Highlighting efforts and providing the rationale to increase the participation and success of underrepresented groups in computing.
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Next Siggest Security Threat Will Be Cyber-Terrorism
The next biggest security threat may not be AK 47s or bomb blasts, but cyber terrorism. Terrorists can attack their enemy without stepping out of their home or...
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Report: Cyberterror Not a Credible Threat
A new report by a Washington policy think tank dismisses out of hand the idea that terrorist groups are currently launching cyber attacks and says that the recent...
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On Public Service and Computer Science
Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and...
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The Broadband Price Is Not Right
Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.
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Are Business Methods Patentable?
How the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.
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Usable Security: How to Get It
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important...
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.s. Must Focus on Protecting Critical Computer Networks From Cyber Attack
A study from the RAND Corp. suggests the United States should focus on defending critical civilian and military computer networks from cyberattack, but does not...
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Government Should Help Widen Cyber Knowledge
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should be doing more to recruit top cyber security talent and develop a highly skilled workforce of cyber security workers...
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