Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
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A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention. ...
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Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.
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Don't Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It
The potential dangers of artificial intelligence are great enough to required great care about how powerful we allow it to become.
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Why Zoom Is Terrible
There's a reason video apps make you feel awkward and unfulfilled.
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Machine Learning Engineers Will Not Exist In 10 Years.
The landscape is evolving quickly.
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How Autonomous Shuttles Could Transform the College Experience
Transportation and parking remain an ongoing issue among campuses everywhere.
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Will Online Education Widen Asia's Digital Divide?
Some students may be at a disadvantage as e-learning relies heavily on home environments, experts say.
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The First Modern Pandemic
Bill Gates considers the scientific advances needed to stop COVID-19.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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A Vision of K-12 Computer Science Education for 2030
Exploring goals, perspectives, and challenges.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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When Technology Goes Awry
On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.
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Big Data Could Undermine the COVID-19 Response
Blind spots in location-tracking data can threaten both public health and human rights.
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Contactless Sociability and Hybrid Communities of Place
What will the world be like after the COVID-19 crisis? A contactless sociality solves problems using the digital network and physical proximity.
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Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role
Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive, and done in person...
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