Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Fostering Computational Literacy in Science Classrooms
An agent-based approach to integrating computing in secondary-school science courses.
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Can You Engineer Privacy?
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.
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Bletchley Park's Rebirth and Why It Matters
Twenty five years ago, the historic World War II codebreaking center Bletchley Park faced demolition.
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Calling All Hackers: Help S Build an Open Wireless Router
EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha release of wireless router software specifically designed to support secure, shareable Open Wireless networks.
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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7 Things You Should Know About Tor
We posted last week about the Tor Challenge and why everyone should use Tor.
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Should Facebook Manipulate sers?
Should we worry that technology companies can secretly influence our emotions?
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What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Police
On May 28th, Lisa Marie Roberts, of Portland, Oregon, was released from prison after serving nine and a half years for a murder she didn't commit.
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The Troubling Truth of Why It's Still So Hard to Share Files Directly
It's not always easy to spot the compromises in the technology we use, where we've allowed corporate interests to trump public ideals like privacy and press freedom...
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The Tech-Savvy Supreme Court
The two major technology-related decisions handed down by the Supreme Court this week have been widely greeted by people in the tech industry as one win and one...
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Licensing Professional Software Engineers: Seize the Opportunity
Professional organizations should be in the forefront of the ongoing discussion about licensing professional software engineers.
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Structural Challenges and the Need to Adapt
Broadening the conversation about scholars and scholarship in computing and information research.
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That Classroom 'Magic'
Effective teaching practices for broadening participation in computer science.
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The Business of the State
Considering the opportunities and challenges for commercial firms involved with government business process outsourcing.
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Toward a Pedagogy of Ethical Practice
Teaching computing ethics in a manner that allows students to address both abstract ethical knowledge and actual ethical practice.
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Watching TV on Internet-Connected Devices
The ABC vs. Aereo case has potentially far-reaching consequences.
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The Case That Might Cripple Facebook
An Irish judge has rendered a preliminary judgment that may have sweeping consequences for U.S. e-commerce firms.
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Why I'm Not in a Hurry For a 'smart Home'
Here's what it's like to wake up in America's smartest home.
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Google's Eyes in the Sky
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page built the search engine that would become Google, they started by making maps.
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