Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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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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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...
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The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...
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A New Approach to Improving Stem Education
The $787 billion U.S. economic stimulus package includes $2.5 billion in additional funding for the National Science Foundation and STEM (science, technology, engineering...
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Long Live the .250 Hitter
Minorities make up nearly half the players in today's Major League Baseball. Not so for women in computer science. They're not integrated because computer science...
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Could the U.S. Repel a Massive Distributed Cyber Attack?
While Russia and the U.S. spend billions on heavy military hardware, China is concentrating on education and hacking. The U.S. is still outsourcing computer work...
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STEM Education Status Quo Is a Recipe For Trouble
A STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education initiative is long overdue! Data on science education in America collected over the past few...
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Computing as Social Science
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest...
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Advising Students For Success
Some advice for those doing the advising (and what the advisors can learn from the advisees).
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Your Students Are Your Legacy
This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.
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When Is a 'License' Really a Sale?
Can you resell software even if the package says you can't? What are the implications for copyright law of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 2008 decision...
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Is Software Engineering Engineering?
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...
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Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
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Inside Risks: U.S. Election After-Math
Recounting problems still associated with election integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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