Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Modeling in Engineering and Science
Understanding behavior by building models.
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UCF's 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision
A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.
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Hey Google, What's a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
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The Robots Have Descended on Trump Country
The growing use of work robots and the deployment of artificial intelligence have been most disruptive in just those areas of the country that provided President...
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Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War With China
If you only scan the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S.-China trade war is mainly about tariffs.
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A Chance Gardener
Harvesting open source products and planting the next crop.
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The Internet Is Splitting in Two Amid .S. Dispute With China
Western bigwigs were a no-show at China's biggest web conference. But in their absence, the local overseers of the nation's technology industry were only too happy...
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Using Any Surface to Realize a New Paradigm for Wireless Communications
Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.
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How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum
The growing importance of machine learning creates challenging questions for computing education.
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The EU's Controversial Digital Single Market Directive
Should copyright enforcement have precedence over the interests of users in information privacy and fundamental freedoms?
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How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech's Hold on A.I.
Pairing artificial intelligence and the blockchain might be what you would expect from a scammer looking to make a quick buck in 2018.
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This Tech Would Have Spotted the Secret Chinese Chip in Seconds
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, spies in China managed to insert chips into computer systems that would allow external control of those systems.
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Building the Universal Archive of Source Code
A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.
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Are CS Conferences (Too) Closed Communities?
Assessing whether newcomers have a more difficult time achieving paper acceptance at established conferences.
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The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code
Teach your junior programmers how to read code.
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The Business of Quantum Computing
Considering the similarities of quantum computing development to the early years of conventional computing.
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Google at 20: How Two 'Obnoxious' Students Changed the Internet
In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering...
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How Will Google's Innovation Continue Beyond Its 20th Year?
As millions of people came online in the late 1990s they needed help figuring out what each webpage was about, and how to find what they were looking for.
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