Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Why Graphene Is the Stuff of the Future
Everything in our three-dimensional world has a width, length and height. That was what we thought, at least. But this picture overlooks a whole class of materials...
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Version Aversion
The way you number your releases communicates more than you might think.
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Platforms and Services: Understanding the Resurgence of Apple
Combining new consumer devices and Internet platforms with online services and content is proving to be a successful strategy.
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Victorian Data Processing
The Victorian world was awash with data and with organizations that processed it; and they usually used nothing...
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"india Has a Big Role to Play in It's Future"
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of India’s largest IT outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services, recently discussed technology...
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Crisis in Computing
It may not be obvious, but if you’ve checked the weather today, ridden in a car or an airplane, made a phone call, or used any number of consumer products, down...
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Is Wikileaks Too Full of Itself?
Have the activists behind WikiLeaks—and in particular the Web site's founder, Julian Assange—become intoxicated by their own myth? Two recent events involving...
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Preparing Computer Science Students For the Robotics Revolution
Robotics will inspire dramatic changes in the CS curriculum.
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Is the Internet a Maturing Market?
Two concerns dominate the current debates over U.S. Internet policy: the relatively low level of U.S. broadband...
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Outsourcing Versus Shared Services
Choosing between outsourcing and shared services has significant implications for long-term corporate strategy.
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How to Silence the Obnoxious and Deafening Vuvuzela
Do you hear that? The hideous, piercing dirge of a B-flat drone that is the unfortunate backdrop to every single World Cup match? It’s the vuvuzela, a stupid plastic...
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Against Instant Replay
Extraordinary cases make bad law. In a sense, Armando Galarraga’s non-perfect perfect game, spoiled by an umpire’s call on what should have been the 27th out, offers...
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Venter: The Implications of Our Synthetic Cell
We did not create life from scratch: we transformed existing life into new life. Nor did we design and build a new chromosome from scratch. Rather, using only digitised...
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Plotting Away
Dear KV, I've been working with some code that generates massive data sets, and . . . I'm finding that more and more often I...
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The Disruptive Future of Printing
Imagine a school where a student could sketch out an idea for a new design of bicycle and not only draw it in 3D using a computer-aided design package but actually...
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How to Make Progress in Computing Education
Improving the research base for computing education requires securing competitive funding commitments.
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Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model
Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Reflections on the decline of mathematical tables.
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