Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How Wwi Codebreakers Taught Your Gas Meter to Snitch on You
In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables...
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Little Green Men Might Not Be So 'green'
Humans are affecting the Earth’s systems on a global scale. Industrial pollutants are accumulating in our atmosphere with the potential for long-term impact on...
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The Data Centers of Tomorrow Will se the Same Tech Our Phones Do
The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the data center.
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A Tool That Answers 'what's That Typeface?'
The Internet is, from its very core to its most distant peripheries, a vast universe of text.
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Why Is Science Fiction So Hard to Define?
Time Out, the weekly listings magazine, recently ranked the 100 best sci-fi movies of all time.
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How to Invent a Person Online
On April 8, 2013, I received an envelope in the mail from a nonexistent return address in Toledo, Ohio.
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How the .s. Stumbled Into the Drone Era
On Sept. 7, 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, a U.S. Predator drone flew over Afghanistan for the first time.
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Slow Search
Seeking to enrich the search experience by allowing for extra time and alternate resources.
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Researching the Robot Revolution
Considering a program for cross-disciplinary research between computer scientists and economists studying the effects of computers on work.
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Private Then Shared?
Designing for the mobile phone to shared PC pipeline.
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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 Future of Robot Caregivers
Each time I make a house call, I stay much longer than I should.
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How to Terraform the Moon
Space fans were startled—and perhaps a little skeptical—in May when the Russians announced that they intend to build a manned moon base.
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The Trouble With Brain Science
Are we ever going to figure out how the brain works?
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Billy Beane on the Future of Sports: A Tech-Driven Revolution
Baseball—my passion and profession for three decades—has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports.
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