Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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True Seeds of Open-Source Software
Though I appreciated Martin Campbell-Kelly's "Viewpoint" "Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?" (Oct. 2008), we must still rectify a small piece of history...
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How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.
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Kode Vicious: Permanence and Change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.
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Emerging Markets: Labor Supply in the Indian IT Industry
Exploring the evolving dynamics and interconnectedness of India's educational system and its IT work force.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Advising Policymakers Is More Than Just Providing Advice
What are the factors that make certain advisory committee reports successful while others are not?
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.
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Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent...
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On the 10th Anniversary of ACM's Digital Library
When ACM launched its pioneering Digital Library a decade ago, it was one of the first professional societies to offer its members—and the broader computing community—a...
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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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Computer Experts: Guns-For-Hire or Professionals?
Considering the responsibilities of those who build systems fundamental to significant social functions, institutions, and values.
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