Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Wanton Acts of Debuggery
Keep your debug messages clear, useful, and not annoying.
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Yet Another Technology Cusp: Confusion, Vendor Wars, and Opportunities
Considering the unexpected risks associated with seemingly minor technological changes.
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Peer Instruction: A Teaching Method to Foster Deep Understanding
How the computing education community can learn from physics education.
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Incentive Auctions
Reallocating valuable wireless spectrum can generate billions of dollars in revenue to the U.S. federal government while also benefiting consumers.
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The Great and Powerful Reddit
Of all the sites that went dark on Wednesday to protest Congress's misguided anti-piracy legislation, Reddit was the one I missed most.
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Smith: Facts Will Overcome Fears
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued a statement in response to reports that some members have dropped their support of the Stop Online...
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Did It Work? 'day After' Results of the Sopa, Pipa Blackout
Google dropped its logo-shroud, Wikipedia returned from limbo, normal service in general has been resumed, and all's right with the world… except that SOPA and...
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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Kidsruby 1.0 Released
So, you have a son or daughter who is showing some interest in computer programming, but you're not really sure where to start.
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Why We've Censored Wired.com
We've blacked out the headlines on our Website homepage today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress—legislation...
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It's Time to Start 3d Scanning the World
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...
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The Rise of the New Groupthink
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement...
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How Siri Makes Computers (and Coders) More Human
Siri, a program in the latest Apple iPhone that can carry out a wide spectrum of vocal commands without requiring training or special syntax from the user, stands...
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Should Computers Have Their Own Web Sites?
Organizations could use a new top-level domain, .data, to share data in a standard form, writes Stephen Wolfram, creator of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram...
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Why Windows Phones Are the Most Exciting Handsets at CES
There's a curious thing happening in the smartphone space at this year's CES.
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Research Bought, Then Paid For
Through the National Institutes of Health, American taxpayers have long supported research directed at understanding and treating human disease.
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Read My Email? Get a Warrant
Last October the well-known hacking group Chaos Computer Club revealed that the German state police had been monitoring the computers of ordinary citizens using...
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Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi For White Spaces
Microsoft researchers have developed WiFi-NC, a type of Wi-Fi network that runs at peak performance even when interference is present.
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