Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Google
Future computing and mobile interfaces driven by artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and machine vision are consuming the time of Google’s top inventor...
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HP's Computers Are Racist! No Way!
This one seems to be the best handled racist accusation on any Tech company. HP's face recognition technology seems to fail in tracking Black faces as comparedView...
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Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?
The exponential growth of Wikipedia has flattened out since 2007, a development that may signal the limits of crowdsourcing. One explanation is that Wikipedia...
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World War 3.0: 10 Critical Trends For Cybersecurity
"Cybersecurity is the soft underbelly of this country," outgoing U.S. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell declared in a valedictory address to reporters...
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Face the Inevitable, Embrace Parallelism
Hardware, software, and applications must all evolve in anticipation of the proliferation of parallelism.
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Computing: The Fourth Great Domain of Science
Computing is as fundamental as the physical, life, and social sciences.
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Icann Chief Operating Officer Doug Brent
ICANN chief operating officer Doug Brent says that although he believes the generic top-level domain (gTLD) implementation process is on track, the complete adoption...
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How Wolfram Alpha Could Change Software
The upstart "computational knowledge engine" claims its results are original works, raising important questions about software and intellectual property.
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Viewpoint: Time For Computer Science to Grow Up
As the computer science field has evolved, so should the methods for disseminating computing research results.
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Education: Alice 3: Concrete to Abstract
The innovative Alice 3 programming environment, currently in beta testing, teaches students to program with Alice and Java software.
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Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?
A frequent question I hear about Communications, and about ACM publishing in general, involves its access model. I am asked: "Why don't you adopt the open-access...
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Ray Ozzie on the Potential of Cloud Computing
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...
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Berners-Lee: We No Longer Fully nderstand the Web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...
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Flaws in Web's Much-Touted Wolframalpha
When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...
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Computing as Social Science
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest...
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The Dot-Org Difference
One of the first things you'll notice about the new Communications Web site (cacm.acm.org) is that it has different...
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Why Ebay Lost to Taobao in China: The Glocal Advantage
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer...
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