Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Education: Reprogramming College Preparatory Computer Science
The college preparatory computer science education curriculum must be improved, beginning with the earliest phases of the process.
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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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Cyber Privacy and Security Pose Difficult Problems
It's not just science or engineering that will be needed to address security concerns, but law, economics, anthropology, and more.
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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Point/Counterpoint: The U.S. Should Ban Paperless Electronic Voting Machines
Debating the public policy issues involved in proposed efforts toward improving voting systems while considering the range of technical and societal challenges....
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Historical Reflections: Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?
Tracing the course of influential computing developments and considering possible paths to new paradigms.
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From the Front Lines: DOA with SOA
Diagnosing the symptoms of failing to accommodate critical software architecture properties that often result in the demise of projects.
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