Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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7 Gadgets to Watch For in 2014
Turn an ordinary table into a touch screen, monitor your kids' whereabouts, and place the power of 3D printing in the palm of your hand—and there’s more.
From Communications of the ACM
Estimation Is Not Evil
Reconciling agile approaches and project estimates.
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Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer
Separating the origins of computer science and technology.
From ACM Opinion
Google's Robot Army
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after the Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos unveiled, on "60 Minutes," that his company plans to deliver packages to customers with a swarm...
From ACM Opinion
Singularity: Reading Our Genes Like Computer Code
Raymond McCauley may go blind as he gets older.
From ACM Opinion
Falling in Love with AI Virtual Assistants: A Creepy Love Affair Nearer Than You Think
"I've never loved anyone the way I've loved you," swoons Joaquin Phoenix, in the movie Her.
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7 Epic Fails Brought to You By the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison
Almost everyone can name the man that invented the light bulb.
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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...
From ACM Opinion
Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
From ACM Opinion
Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?
For many tech companies, design is no longer subjective.
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A Force For Face-to-Face Communication
Clifford I. Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford who died on Saturday, regaled me several times over the years about his method for torturing students...
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Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."
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There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't
"I’m just not a math person."
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
"It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence."
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The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the prediction of the Higgs boson, which was experimentally confirmed...
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The Many Meanings of Open
I was recently asked to talk about the idea of "open," and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways.
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Nobel Prizes 2013: Computer Models That Can Mimic Life
We talk about computer modeling a lot in the context of climate science—powerful algorithms that help scientists get a better idea of how climate systems work,...
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