Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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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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The Dot-Org Difference
One of the first things you'll notice about the new Communications Web site (cacm.acm.org) is that it has different...
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Why Ebay Lost to Taobao in China: The Glocal Advantage
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer...
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Viewpoint: Scaling the Academic Publication Process to Internet Scale
A proposal to remedy problems in the reviewing process.
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Communications Preps Web-Enhanced Articles
The soon to launch Communications Web site will break the bounds of the printed monthly.
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True Seeds of Open-Source Software
Though I appreciated Martin Campbell-Kelly's "Viewpoint" "Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?" (Oct. 2008), we must still rectify a small piece of history...
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How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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On the 10th Anniversary of ACM's Digital Library
When ACM launched its pioneering Digital Library a decade ago, it was one of the first professional societies to offer its members—and the broader computing community—a...
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Legally Speaking: Quantafying the Value of Patent Exhaustion
Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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