Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A New Breed of Heterogeneous Computing
The foundation of high-performance computing is undergoing a revolution with the introduction of add-on accelerators. An emerging variant of the heterogeneous computing...
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How Much Do the Internet Giants Really Know?
To briefly state the obvious, the Internet giants are seriously big: Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it's one of the top three email providers...
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With New Comforts, Growing Complacent
Google and Facebook, young and successful companies that they are, risk being left behind as technology shifts from PCs and Web browsers to mobile devices.
From ACM Opinion
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm.
In the midst of a technology revolution, with a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping...
From ACM Opinion
How I Traced My Ancestry Back to the Stone Age
I recently had a genetic test to find out more about where my ancestors came from.
From ACM Opinion
The Troll Toll
When hospitals come upon a technology with a proven track record of saving lives, you'd expect a flood of investment to expand its use, and a race by manufacturers...
From ACM Opinion
Rethinking the Social Network
At some point later this year, Facebook will connect one in every seven people on the planet. When it passes the billion user mark—and really it is a question of...
From ACM Opinion
How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers
When the disappointing jobs numbers were reported last week (employers added 120,000 jobs in March, about half the number reported in the two previous months),...
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Crossing the Software Education Chasm
An Agile approach that exploits cloud computing.
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Programming the Global Brain
Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain.
From Communications of the ACM
Programming Goes Back to School
Broadening participation by integrating game design into middle school curricula. View a video featuring author Alexander Repenning about using games to introduce...
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Digitization and Copyright: Some Recent Evidence from Music
Examining the effects of stealing on producers and consumers.
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The Future of the Past
Reflections on the changing face of the history of computing.
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Design For Symbiosis
Promoting more harmonious paths for technological innovators and expressive creators in the Internet age.
From ACM Opinion
Physical Media Is Dead
Over the weekend, Hunter Walk (a friend of mine who works for YouTube) tweeted about brands offering apps built on the Spotify platform. Spotify is likely to ...
From ACM Opinion
From the Birthplace of Big Brother
The George W. Bush team must be consumed with envy. Britain's government is preparing sweeping new legislation that would let the country's domestic intelligence...
From ACM Opinion
Jeff Bezos Should Send Eric Holder a Christmas Card
I can imagine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in Seattle Wednesday morning, reading the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit on a gigantic Kindle Fire XL prototype, and...
From ACM Opinion