Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How Cambridge Analytica's Facebook Targeting Model Really Worked, According to the Person Who Built It
The researcher whose work is at the center of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data analysis and political advertising uproar has revealed that his method worked...
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The Next Cold War Is Here, and It's All About Data
The headlines about the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired, but the most consequential...
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Someone Is Watching You
Isn't technology wonderful? At Purdue University, the same IT infrastructure that enables us to manage student assignments and grades, operate residential and dining...
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Cambridge Analytica Controversy Must Spur Researchers to Update Data Ethics
Revelations keep emerging in the Cambridge Analytica personal-data scandal, which has captured global public attention for more than a week. But when the dust settles...
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My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data
For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook.
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Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment
Exploring the connection qualities between smartphones and their users.
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Popping Kernels
Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space.
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Business Ecosystems: How Do They Matter for Innovation?
Considering the significant interrelationship of innovation, corporate strategy, and public policy for business ecosystems.
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Enough About Cryptocurrency. Let's Talk About Virtual Cats
We spend way too much time talking about digital currencies and not nearly enough time on digital cats.
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Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Legitimate Researchers sing Facebook Data Could Be Collateral Damage
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his...
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In S v. Microsoft, a Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good Options
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Microsoft, a case that many observers believe could have significant ramifications for how...
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Apple's China Lesson: Think Different, But Not Too Different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government's showcase global business forum next month, underscoring his increasingly high profile...
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Computational Social Science ≠ Computer Science + Social Data
The important intersection of computer science and social science.
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Responsible Research with Crowds: Pay Crowdworkers at Least Minimum Wage
High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.
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Impediments with Policy Interventions to Foster Cybersecurity
A call for discussion of governmental investment and intervention in support of cybersecurity.
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The Computing Profession
Taking stock of progress toward a computing profession since this column started in 2001.
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Ethics Omission Increases Gases Emission
A look in the rearview mirror at Volkswagon software engineering.
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Will the Supreme Court Nix Reviews of Bad Patents?
Considering the longer-term implications of a soon-to-be-decided U.S. Supreme Court case.
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