Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The Legacy of Steve Ballmer
Assessing the positive and negative components of the second Microsoft CEO's tenure.
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Academics Should Not Remain Silent on Hacking
The revelation that U.S. and British spy agencies have undermined a commonly used encryption code should alarm researchers.
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Metadata Isn't Going Away. Here's How to Control It.
It's a good bet that, in the next few weeks, President Obama will impose some serious reforms—and ask Congress to enact a few more—on how the National Security...
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Tor Is Supposed to Hide You Online. In This Harvard Student's Case, It Did the Opposite.
At 9 a.m. Monday, fire alarms went off in Harvard's Emerson Hall.
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The Judge and the Nsa
Federal Judge Richard Leon has become a sudden political celebrity after his remarkable opinion holding that antiterror surveillance is unconstitutional and, even...
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.
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Why Bitcoin Needs Banks
On a mission to convince the world that Bitcoin is enduring and serious, enthusiasts convened at a place that symbolizes the ephemeral and the glitzy: Las Vegas...
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Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.
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Why Obama Still ses a BlackBerry
Barack Obama is the world's most prominent BlackBerry user.
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
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23andme Is Terrifying, But Not For the Reasons the Fda Thinks
If there's a gene for hubris, the 23andMe crew has certainly got it.
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Can You Hack It?
Wherever you're sitting right now, take a moment to note the connected devices around you.
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Software Is Reorganizing the World
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.
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From MOOCs to SPOCs
Supplementing the classroom experience with small private online courses.
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Bringing Young Women Into Computing Through the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Program
A program to encourage and support girls and women in pursuing their computer science interests.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving...
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Patrick Blackett: Providing 'White Heat' to the British Computing Revolution
Reflections on a Nobel Prize-winning physicist's early contributions to computing.
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