Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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What to Expect Now That Internet Providers Can Collect and Sell Your Web Browser History
After Congress handed President Trump legislation Tuesday that would wipe away landmark privacy protections for Internet users, we received a lot of reader questions...
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How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers
On Tuesday afternoon, while most people were focused on the latest news from the House Intelligence Committee, the House quietly voted to undo rules that keep internet...
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What It Means to Be an Entrepreneur Today
In his keynote address before the fifth edition of the Tech Open Air conference in Berlin in 2016, Kickstarter's cofounder and CEO Yancey Strickler suggests the...
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Wanted: Toolsmiths
Seeking to use software, hardware, and algorithmic ingenuity to create unique domain-independent instruments.
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The Chess Player Who Couldn't Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
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Online Social Networks and Global Women's Empowerment
Mediating social change or reinforcing male hegemony?
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The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here
Andrew Ng helped create two of Silicon Valley's leading artificial intelligence labs.
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Africa Needs More Women Computer Scientists: How To Make It Happen
Computer science is an especially male-dominated university course all over the world. I have some ideas about how to throw open more doors for women computer scientists...
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The Wisdom of Nokia's Dumbphone
They weighed heavy in pockets and jackets and bags, for they were thick and bulky, not lithe and narrow.
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No, Robots Aren't Killing the American Dream
Defenders of globalization are on solid ground when they criticize President Trump's threats of punitive tariffs and border walls.
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Where Review Goes Wrong
Examining professional misconduct among academic publication examiners.
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Supreme Court on Design Patent Damages in Samsung v. Apple
Considering influences leading to the recent U.S Supreme Court decision in a years-long case that Apple filed against Samsung over iPhone design infringement.
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Who Will Be Hurt – and Helped – If .s. Tech Industry Can't Hire the World's Best Talent?
The H-1B visa program is a major contributor to U.S. economic growth but is quite bad for domestic computer scientists, according to recently published research...
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Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?
American manufacturing job losses to China and Mexico were a major theme of the presidential campaign, and President Trump has followed up on his promise to pressure...
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Why Silicon Valley Wouldn't Work Without Immigrants
People in tech see something cataclysmic in Mr. Trump executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries: the end of America's standing as...
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How Trump's Immigration Rules Will Hurt the .s. Tech Sector
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday issuing a temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, it went into effect...
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The Unholy Trinity of Software Development
Tests, documentation, and code.
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Fostering Creativity Through Computing
How creative thinking tools and computing can be used to support creative human endeavors.
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Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing
Reflections on pioneering code-breaking efforts.
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