Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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American Schools Are Teaching Our Kids How to Code All Wrong
The US Department of Labor projects that one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020.
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A Byte Is All We Need
A teenager explores ways to attract girls into the magical world of computer science.
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Privacy Is Dead, Long Live Privacy
Protecting social norms as confidentiality wanes.
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Computer Science Should Stay Young
Seeking to improve computer science publication culture while retaining the best aspects of the conference and journal publication processes.
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An Interview with Yale Patt
ACM Fellow Professor Yale Patt reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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How to Produce Innovations
Making innovations happen is surprisingly easy, satisfying, and rewarding if you start small and build up.
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To Write Better Code, Read Virginia Woolf
The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.
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My 10 Favorite Books: Bill Gates
"Seveneves," Neal Stephenson: This novel about how the human race responds to the end of life on Earth rekindled my love for sci-fi. Some readers will lose patience...
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Should We Synthesise a Human Genome?
At Harvard today, an invitation-only group of about 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, met to discuss if and how to construct from scratch an entire human...
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After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor
After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and...
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How Wooden Toys Teach Kids to Code
Like most parents, I want my young children to be prepared for the future—one in which knowing how to program a computer will be a basic skill, like clicking "Skip...
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Is the Tech Bubble Popping? Ping Pong Offers an Answer
Twitter's gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors. They might have anticipated trouble more than a year ago had they noticed one key indicator.
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Who's Downloading Pirated Papers? Everyone
In increasing numbers, researchers around the world are turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest pirate website for scholarly literature, to access research papers...
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Beyond Blocks: Syntax and Semantics
How the future of general-purpose programming tools could include blocks-based structured editing, and how we should study students transitioning to text-based...
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The Internet of Things We Don't Own?
Who will control the 'ordinary pursuits of life' in the digital economy?
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.
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You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That's Ludicrous
In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions...
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The Internet Archive, Bricks and Mortar Version
A heavily rusted cast iron ring sits on a bookshelf inside a neoclassical church a few blocks north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The ring is about an inch...
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