Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Five Ways to Fix Statistics
As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change...
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The Death of Big Software
We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.
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Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education
Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.
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Workers Displaced By Automation Should Try a New Job: Caregiver
Sooner or later, the US will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
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Learning to Spot Fake News: Start with a Gut Check
Which of these statements seems more trustworthy to you?
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Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot
Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.
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Why We Shouldn't Teach Tech in Kindergarten
The development of skills like coding is not what tomorrow's leaders need in order to walk confidently into the future.
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Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model For Open Access Publishing?
Analyzing the "Pay What You Want" business model for open access publishing.
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Keeping the Machinery in Computing Education
Incorporating intellectual and developmental frameworks into a Scottish school curriculum.
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Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice
Seeking more common ground between data scientists and their critics.
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Disgorging Profits in Design Patent Cases
Does the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Apple v. Samsung case represent a quagmire?
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Will AI and Blockchain Be Game-Changers?
This week saw another major achievement by Google's Deep Mind, when it showed that a neural network could learn to play Go in just three days, without even looking...
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The Future of Dna Sequencing
Forty years ago, two papers1, 2 described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the chemical bases in stretches of DNA. Before these 1977 publications...
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How China Is Catching p To A .s. Science & Tech Sector ncertain Of Its Future
While the U.S. remains the global leader in Science and Technology, there is little doubt that its star is fading.
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Trump Is Making Canada Great Again
It's no secret that the United States has long dominated cutting-edge technologies, from personal computers and biotech to smartphones and social media.
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Amazon and Whole Foods: Follow the Strategy (and the Money)
Checking out the recent Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods.
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Fintech Platforms and Strategy
Integrating trust and automation in finance.
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What Can Agile Methods Bring to High-Integrity Software Development?
Considering the issues and opportunities raised by Agile practices in the development of high-integrity software.
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