Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The First Church of Robotics
This constant stream of stories about artificial intelligence suggests that machines are becoming smart and autonomous, a new form of life, and that we should...
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Charging the Wikileaks Leaker with Treason Would Be Absurd
Should Pvt. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks, be tried for treason? And what about...
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I Tweet, Therefore I Am
On a recent lazy Saturday morning, my daughter and I lolled on a blanket in our front yard, snacking on apricots, listening to a download of E. B. White reading...
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Cyberwar Is Hell
While we obsessed over Russian spies, top diplomats were working to stop a greater espionage problem: the threat of cyberwarfare.
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Rights For Autonomous Artificial Agents?
The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.
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Presenting Your Project
The what, the how, and the why of giving an effective presentation.
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Has China Caught Up in IT?
An assessment of the relative achievements in IT infrastructure, firms, and innovation in China.
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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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How Often Does Your Phone Drop Calls?
Apple, Research in Motion, and the rest of the cell phone industry don't want you to know.
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Five Things that Could Topple Facebook's Empire
Facebook is primed to announce this week that it's amassed a half billion active friends, a milestone reinforcing its status as the king of social networks—a company...
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The Google Algorithm
Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic....
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What Apple Must Do to Stop the Iphone 4 Bleeding
It'd be an understatement to say that this has been a terrible week for Apple, and we haven't even reached the halfway point.
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Wendy Tan-White on Skeptical Men and Twitter Success
Wendy Tan-White says the corporate world needs to take social media and the Internet far more seriously, but instead is allowing bureaucracy and uncertainty to...
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The Medium Is the Medium
Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school...
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Google Should Answer Some Searching Questions
Google woos people with its "don't be evil" slogan and assures us that everything it does is meant to enhance our online experience. But a new study by U.S. advocacy...
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