Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Designing AI Systems that Obey Our Laws and Values
Calling for research on automatic oversight for artificial intelligence systems.
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'For All' in 'Computer Science For All'
Seeking to expand inclusiveness in computer science education.
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Software Quality
Software users are looking more and more for software that delights.
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No Easy Answers in the Fight Over iPhone Decryption
A look at the legal background and future possibilities for an issue that is likely to reoccur.
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At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality
Twenty-five years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee unleashed the World Wide Web, publishing the first public webpage. Well, maybe.
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Ai's Research Rut
When we think of AI as one particular thing, we drag the whole field down.
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Obama's Science Legacy: Betting Big on Biomedical Science
When president-elect Barack Obama chose physicist John Holdren as his top science adviser in December 2008, some biomedical researchers worried that the pick signalled...
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Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of Theory
I used to be an astronaut, a spacewalker on the International Space Station.
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Why Facebook Is Really Blocking the Ad Blockers
Ads can seem like the bane of the Internet.
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How to Read Between the Lines of Tim Cook's Epic Interview
To celebrate five years as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook has given a very long, exclusive interview to the Washington Post about his experiences so far. But what he didn’t...
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The Brave New World of Robots and Lost Jobs
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...
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All Alone in No Man's Sky
If reality is a game—a vast, snow-globe-y sort of experiment that plays out according to the hard rules of physics and the loose rules of story—then it is, in contemporary...
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World Should Consider Limits to Future Internet Expansion to Control Energy Consumption
The world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions, say leading computer...
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Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...
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Hydrogen Molecule Falls to Quantum Computer
We are at the beginning of a revolution. I've been going on about quantum computing for as long as I've been writing, but it has always been in the future tense...
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Why Save a Computer Virus?
On average, 82,000 new malware threats are created each day.
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Presidential Campaigns Are Talking Around The Robot In The Room
While U.S. presidential candidates are talking about tax rates, tax breaks, and trade — they are ignoring an economic issue that soon may matter far more to working...
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Can We Trust Julian Assange and Wikileaks?
The release of a cache of emails from the Democratic National Committee by WikiLeaks last month has raised a great many questions—about the role of the D.N.C. in...
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After Fatality, Autonomous Car Development May Speed p
The world has witnessed enormous advances in autonomous passenger vehicle technologies over the last dozen years.
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