Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Is the Navy Trying to Start the Robot Apocalypse?
Whenever the military rolls out a new robot program, folks like to joke about SkyNet or the Rise of the Machines. But this time, the military really is starting...
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Keep the Internet Fair
The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat. Here's a simple fix.
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Psych-Out Sexism
The innocent, unconscious bias that discourages girls from math and science.
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Wiring in a Wireless Age
Is Intel's Thunderbolt cable a brilliant innovation or a worthless grasp at the past?
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How We Know
James Gleick's first chapter has the title "Drums That Talk." It explains the concept of information by looking at a simple example.
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Have You Driven a Smartphone Lately?
I’m barreling along a rural Michigan highway at 75 miles per hour in a gray Ford Taurus X when I glance down to check a number on a screen.
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Gaming Social Networks For Influence and Propaganda
For a while now I have argued that the contemporary operating environment has two dimensions: "the first is the actual tactical field of battle in which bullets...
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Tech Revolutionaries
The Arab Revolt shows that Google's and Twitter's corporate values are better than Facebook's.
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Computer and Information Science and Engineering: One Discipline, Many Specialties
Mathematics is no longer the only foundation for computing and information research and education in academia.
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A Program Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: The BPC Alliances
Changing the trajectory of participation in computing for students at various stages of development.
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Managing Time
Professionals overwhelmed with information glut can find hope from new insights about time management.
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Surrounded By Machines
A chilling scenario portends a possible future.
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Do You Own the Software You Buy?
Examining the fine print concerning your rights in your copies of purchased software.
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How the Internet Gets Inside s
When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming...
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Cubelets: Modular, Affordable Robotics For Kids and Students
Robotics can be a tricky subject to teach children, and it's hard to know where to start. Cubelets is a system of modular cubes that each have one use, interaction...
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My Puny Human Brain
Jeopardy! genius Ken Jennings on what it's like to play against a supercomputer.
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An Html For Numbers
The Age of Data is just around the corner, right where it has been for years. As someone who spends a lot his time creating visualizations, I've been hoping for...
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Gadget Politics: Why Tech Fans Share the Love and Hate
I’ve been a consumer technology critic for over 10 years. During that time, hate mail has been part of my job every day.
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A Worthwhile Contest For Artificial Intelligence
If IBM's Watson machine defeats people on TV's Jeopardy this week, does that mean that computers are smarter than humans? Maybe not. But the performance could...
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