Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Suggestions For an Apple Shopping List
Question: What would you do if you had $117 billion?
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Is Algebra Necessary?
A typical American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra.
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E-Reading: A Midterm Progress Report
E-readers have been around long enough now that the novelty has largely worn off.
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The Frightening Things You Hear at a Black Hat Conference
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.
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Why Shooting Games Make Your Brain Happy
Modern videogames are obsessed with guns, and there are a lot of reasons why.
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Should Computer Scientists Change How They Publish?
One of the most popular panels at Snowbird was "Publication Models in Computing Research: Is a Change Needed? Are We Ready for a Change?"
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The Public Is Left in the Dark When Courts Allow Electronic Surveillance
A big part of Magistrate Judge Stephen W. Smith's job in Federal District Court in Houston is to consider law enforcement requests for cellphone and email records...
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The Ethics of Software Engineering Should Be an Ethics For the Client
Viewing software engineering as a communicative art in which client engagement is essential.
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Internet Elections: Unsafe in Any Home?
Experiences with electronic voting suggest elections should not be conducted via the Internet.
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The Internet Is Everywhere, but the Payoff Is Not
Examining the uneven patterns of Internet economics.
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A System Is Not a Product
Stopping to smell the code before wasting time reentering configuration data.
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The Politics of 'Real Names'
Power, context, and control in networked publics.
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Will Massive Open Online Courses Change How We Teach?
Sharing recent experiences with the massive open artificial intelligence course developed and conducted by Stanford faculty Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.
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Inside the Hermit Kingdom: IT and Outsourcing in North Korea
North Korea has a sizeable IT sector. Some 10,000 professionals work in the field, and many more have IT degrees. They are already engaged in outsourcing contracts...
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Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet
Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government's investment in education and basic infrastructure...
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What's p With Skype?
Is the government listening to our Skype conversations? If so, it's not a bad thing. Here's why.
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Can Data Mining Stop the Killing?
Would Total Information Awareness have stopped James Eagan Holmes?
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So, Who Really Did Invent the Internet?
Gordon Crovitz of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page reopens the ancient debate over who invented the Internet with a column Monday calling out the notion...
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