Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Sneaky Apps That Track Cellphones
A perversion of smartphone technology called "stalking apps"—precise, secretive trackings of the movements of cellphone users—is increasingly a matter of national...
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Conference-Journal Hybrids
Considering how to combine the best elements of conferences and journals.
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Five Lessons from Really Good History
Lessons learned from four award-winning books on the history of information technology.
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Beyond Location: Data Security in the 21st Century
Viewing evolving data security issues as engineering problems to be solved.
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How We Build Things: . . . and Why Things Are 90% Complete
It seems to be a law of software development that things always take longer than we expect. When a project manager talks to a designer, programmer, or tester...
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The Apple-Samsung Lawsuits
In search of a middle ground in the intellectual property wars.
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The Real Brothers Grimm Were Stranger Than Fiction
Head over to Google's homepage on Thursday and you'll enjoy a scrollable comic strip telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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This Real-Life Pixar Lamp Cutely Refuses to Let You Turn It Off
Design-class projects have come a long way. That's the only conclusion I can draw from this brilliant video of a robotic desk lamp that squeaks, swivels, and mugs...
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Video Games in 2012: Five Things We've Learned
From the crowd-funding explosion to the arrival of the first "next-generation" console, the games industry has had quite a time of it this year.
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The Psychology of Tetris
Shapes fall from the sky, all you have to do is to control how they fall and fit within each other.
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The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard
Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...
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James Bond Fails the Tech Test in Skyfall
As a self-confessed technology geek, there have been numerous occasions when my enjoyment of a movie has been marred by technological impossibilities.
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9 Wishes For Microsoft's Next Xbox, Whatever It's Called
Citing the usual sources-who-shall-remain-nameless, Bloomberg reports what everyone's been assuming all year—that Microsoft's going to launch its next game system...
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Alan Turing Remembered
A unique firsthand account of formative experiences with Alan Turing.
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Why We Need an ACM Special Interest Group For Broadening Participation
A proposal for an international group focused on broadening participation.
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Moods
Recognizing and working with moods — your own, your team's, and your customers' — is essential to professional success.
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Saving Private Gromit
Reflections on the legalities and economics of preserving animations and games in Europe.
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IT Innovation For the Bottom of the Pyramid
New ways to develop technologies for the emerging growth markets.
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