Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The Challenges of Privacy By Design
Heralded by regulators, Privacy by Design holds the promise to solve the digital world's privacy problems. But there are immense challenges, including management...
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Google's Hybrid Approach to Research
By closely connecting research and development Google is able to conduct experiments on an unprecedented scale, often resulting in new capabilities for the company...
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An Information Strategy For Environmental Sustainability
Many proposed solutions to the species-threatening transformations born of human industrialization have an engineering orientation. Often the suggested remedies...
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Can Online Piracy Be Stopped By Laws?
Considering the legal responsibilities of Internet intermediaries in the aftermath of the Stop Online Privacy Act controversy.
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Business Models For Strategy and Innovation
While often ambiguously defined, business models are central to innovation.
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How Depressives Surf the Web
In what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your email compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications—from...
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How To Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
The United States has produced viable female presidential candidates, women athletes who command millions of dollars in endorsements, and the first female Nobel...
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Are We Living in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451?
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, one of the world's leading writers of the genre for more than 60 years, died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Although he wrote...
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The Cybersecurity Risk
Increased attention to cybersecurity has not resulted in improved cybersecurity.
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Security of the Internet and the Known Unknowns
Seeking answers to questions about Internet vulnerabilities.
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The Myth of the Elevator Pitch
Instead of pitching, listen and offer.
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Why Computer Scientists Should Care About Cyber Conflict and U.S. National Security Policy
Cybersecurity and policy issues for computer scientists.
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I (robot) Thee Wed
It's hard to think of a more attention-grabbing title than "Robots, Men, and Sex Tourism"—especially in the academic world.
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Crossing the Software Education Chasm
An Agile approach that exploits cloud computing.
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Programming the Global Brain
Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain.
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Programming Goes Back to School
Broadening participation by integrating game design into middle school curricula. View a video featuring author Alexander Repenning about using games to introduce...
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Digitization and Copyright: Some Recent Evidence from Music
Examining the effects of stealing on producers and consumers.
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The Future of the Past
Reflections on the changing face of the history of computing.
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