Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Privacy and Security: An Ethics Code For U.S. Intelligence Officers
Debating and arguing the points of a proposed code of behavior to provide guidance in making choices can produce the most effective ethics training.
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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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Economic and Business Dimensions: Entrepreneurship During a Slump
A contrarian's perspective on how entrepreneurial opportunities and innovation can thrive during an economic crisis.
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Bill Gates Offers the World a Physics Lesson
It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria,Microsoft...
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Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it." The list of commercial hits/Microsoft...
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Being a Walking Hot-Spot
During Road Trip 2009, Daniel Terdiman arrived in Aspen with an iPhone with no battery life. He used Verizon's MiFi 2200 to create a walking Wi-Fi hot-spot for...
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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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Life Without Technology: Getting Off the Grid
As you read this, I am somewhere in rural China, probably disoriented, perhaps eating a fish eye, and certainly not paying attention to the news. This column was...
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How to Cross the Digital Divide, Rwanda-Style
Rwanda is emerging as an interesting test case on how a digital divide is actually being bridged in a methodical, well-thought-out, step-by-step manner. The first...
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High Tech's Great Leap Backward
Beijing recently announced that starting on July 1, all computers sold in China must come installed with government-designed software to block pornography. Testing...
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In Conversation with Dr. Gang Lu
Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, has worked for a European company, Netvibes.com, and has recently moved back to Shanghai. In this interview,...
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The Dmca Is Endangering American Security
I've had the government's 60-day Cyberspace Policy Review sitting on my desk for many days now, dutifully highlighted and marked up with notes. And I see one gigantic...
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Web Surfing in a Wireless Network of Your Very Own
Not long ago Web browsing required sitting in one place and using a computer plugged into a cable. Now, people expect to hop online whenever they want using wireless...
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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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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character...
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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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The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...
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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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