Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Could Artificial Intelligence Create an Unemployment Crisis?
Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will have significant implications for evolving economic systems.
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Toward Culturally Responsive Computing Education
Improving academic success and social development by merging computational thinking with cultural practices.
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The Business of Professionals
Expertise and service ethics are just two of the many components comprising a modern professional.
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Information and Communication Technology For Managing Supply Chain Risks
How to encourage ethical behavior among all links in a global supply chain.
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Statutory Damages As a Threat to Innovation
Considering the negative influence of U.S. statutory damage rules on technology innovation.
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How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...
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Access to the Internet Is a Human Right
Connecting Internet access with freedom of expression and creativity.
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Cybercrime, Cyberweapons, Cyber Wars: Is There Too Much of It in the Air?
Where reality stops and perception begins.
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Swamped By Automation
Whenever someone asks you to trust them, don't.
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Thumb Numbers
Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.
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Learning from the Past to Face the Risks of Today
The Space Shuttle software program can provide guidance to today's projects.
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Laptop
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...
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Tedxstanford Highlights Breakthroughs in Research and Creativity, Stanford-Style
They sacrificed a spectacular sunny Saturday afternoon by the hundreds, forgoing all else to sit in a darkened hall to witness hours of intense lectures and art...
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Sorry, College Grads, I Probably Won't Hire You
Dear college graduates: The next month is going to be thrilling as you cross this major milestone in your education.
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Is Massively Open Online Education a Threat or a Blessing?
In fall 2011, Sebastian Thrun, a research professor at Stanford, and Peter Norvig, the top scientist at Google, teamed up to develop and teach a free, online course...
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Measuring the Benefits of Tech Tools
When I was a young reporter we could not afford cellphones.
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Innovation Starvation
My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space.
From ACM Opinion