Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Science Labs Don't Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg
A recent article in District Administration magazine discusses the aging science labs in schools across the United States and the cost of upgrading them all. The...
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Viewpoint: Time For Computer Science to Grow Up
As the computer science field has evolved, so should the methods for disseminating computing research results.
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Privacy and Security: An Ethics Code For U.S. Intelligence Officers
Debating and arguing the points of a proposed code of behavior to provide guidance in making choices can produce the most effective ethics training.
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Education: Alice 3: Concrete to Abstract
The innovative Alice 3 programming environment, currently in beta testing, teaches students to program with Alice and Java software.
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Economic and Business Dimensions: Entrepreneurship During a Slump
A contrarian's perspective on how entrepreneurial opportunities and innovation can thrive during an economic crisis.
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Bill Gates Offers the World a Physics Lesson
It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria,Microsoft...
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Ohio Is Missing the Boat on Electronics Education
One thing we have learned is that when the U.S. fails to provide enough college graduates in high tech career fields, such as computer science and electronics,...
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India: The Uneven Innovator
All around Bangalore, 'little Americas' are springing up, as they are in other fast-growing cities such as Hyderabad and Pune. Yet despite the media hyperbole,...
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Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?
A frequent question I hear about Communications, and about ACM publishing in general, involves its access model. I am asked: "Why don't you adopt the open-access...
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The Dmca Is Endangering American Security
I've had the government's 60-day Cyberspace Policy Review sitting on my desk for many days now, dutifully highlighted and marked up with notes. And I see one gigantic...
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Q&A: Ravi Venkatesan
Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India, discusses the role technology can play in the new Indian administration and Microsoft's efforts to accelerate the...
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Confessions of a Science Librarian
I'm curious about all this and I wonder if any of the computing people out there share Moshe Yardi's ambivalence in Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research...
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On Vardi's Question on Conferences
As picked up by Lance, Moshe Vardi uses his Editor's Letter in the May CACM to start up a debate on the future of conferences in CS. While I agree with the view...
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Are Conferences Worth Fixing?
Moshe Vardi uses his Editor's Letter in the May CACM to start up a debate on the future of conferences in CS. He mentions last year's Workshop on Organizing Workshops...
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Computer Engineers Should Not Teach Computer Science
Everything started last year, when a commission created by the Minister of Higher Education in Jordan considered computer engineers unqualified to teach computer...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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Deficits Worry Intel Chairman Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett joined Intel Corp. as a technology-development manager in 1974, and rose through the ranks to become chief executive officer in 1998. In 2005, he...
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Re-Envisioning the Computer Science Curriculum
Dan Garcia, a lecturer in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, talks with Intel's Paul Steinberg and Contra Costa College Professor Tom Murphy about parallelism,...
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How to Recruit Students For Government Service
According to a project completed by second-year master's students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, government needs to be doing a better job of recruiting...
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