Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New...
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There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't
"I’m just not a math person."
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The Decline of Wikipedia
The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.
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Augmented Reality Browsers: Essential Products or Only Gadgets?
How lessons learned from the evolution of the Web and Web browsers can influence the development of AR browsers.
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Making Computer Science Count
Combining efforts and expertise, ACM and Code.org are partnering to address a rapidly changing education landscape.
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No Limits to Watching?
Considering the ethical questions raised by technologies that are moving from knowing what we are doing (and where) to knowing who we are.
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Is Software Patentable?
Assessing the shifting perspectives on patentability standards for software.
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What Regulators Can Do to Advance Privacy Through Design
Seeking to address the challenges of privacy by design through regulatory process and formal law.
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Why Apple Wants Its Software to Be Free
Who knew Apple would become such a big shareware company?
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Why I Am napologetic About Paywalls or Promotion
Late last week I posted a short essay on LinkedIn, where I am an Influencer, called "The best case study you'll ever read."
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Publishing: Open Citations
When Heather Piwowar set out in May last year to investigate whether making research data publicly available increased the citation rates of articles, she never...
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Breaking the Internet
Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff's recent indictment of the United States' cyber-spying practices has profound global repercussions for the U.S vision of a borderless...
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Here's Why Cops Should Be Required to Wear a Lapel Camera While on Duty
Police officers in Rialto, Calif., carry cameras to record their every action while on duty.
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The Many Meanings of Open
I was recently asked to talk about the idea of "open," and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways.
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Humans 1, Robots 0
Computers seem to be replacing humans across many industries, and we're all getting very nervous.
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Rage Against the Algorithms
When was the last time you read an online review about a local business or service on a platform like Yelp?
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The Lessons of Aaron Swartz
On the day after Aaron Swartz's death in January, President Reif and I spoke about how MIT might respond to the breaking news of his suicide.
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Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook
If creationists in Texas get their way, high-school students throughout the U.S. could soon be reading biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific...
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