Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Defining American Greatness: IBM from Watson to Trump
Reflections on a firm that encapsulated the American Century.
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Technology and the Failure of the University
Considering the double-edged sword of learning technologies in various academic settings.
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Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do For You . . .
Seeking more effective strategies for training and nurturing CS postdocs to ensure their success.
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Five Priorities For Weather and Climate Research
Meteorology is entering a new era. Demand is growing worldwide for forecasts of storms, floods and droughts.
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The Tax Overhaul Could Cripple the .s. as a Leader in Science
The graduate education system in the United States is rightly considered the best in the world. But Republicans in the House of Representatives have passed a bill...
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Why These Friendly Robots Can't Be Good Friends to Our Kids
Jibo the robot swivels around when it hears its name and tilts its touchscreen face upward, expectantly.
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Quantum Computing Is the Next Big Security Risk
The 20th century gave birth to the Nuclear Age as the power of the atom was harnessed and unleashed.
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What I Learned from the People Who Built the Atom Bomb
When I began my career in elementary particle physics, the great figures who taught and inspired me had been part of the Manhattan Project generation that developed...
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Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready For AI
Executives at ascendant tech titans like Amazon and Google tend to look down on their predecessor IBM.
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Five Ways to Fix Statistics
As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change...
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The Death of Big Software
We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.
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Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education
Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.
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Workers Displaced By Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver
Sooner or later, the US will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
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Learning to Spot Fake News: Start with a Gut Check
Which of these statements seems more trustworthy to you?
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Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot
Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.
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Why We Shouldn't Teach Tech in Kindergarten
The development of skills like coding is not what tomorrow's leaders need in order to walk confidently into the future.
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Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model For Open Access Publishing?
Analyzing the "Pay What You Want" business model for open access publishing.
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Keeping the Machinery in Computing Education
Incorporating intellectual and developmental frameworks into a Scottish school curriculum.
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Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice
Seeking more common ground between data scientists and their critics.
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