Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Managing Time, Part 2
Masterful time management means not just tracking of messages in your personal environment, but managing your coordination network with others.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Global IT Outsourcing
How to improve IT outsourcing relationships while doing good for society.
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In Praise of 'Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill'
Sixty years ago, Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill produced the first textbook on programming: The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital...
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Remix Nation
Assessing the threat the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act pose for fair use.
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Steve, Please Buy S a Carrier!
What should Apple do with its $76bn in cash? It could do worse than spend some of it on acquiring its own mobile carrier.
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Apple's Rise to Top Means Less Than You Think
With Apple officially becoming the world's most valuable company—at least for a day—it's tempting to engage in lofty talk about what this says about the rise...
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Why Isn't America Innovating Like It sed To?
America isn't innovating like it used to. And by "like it used to," I mean the period from after World War II to 1973, when an explosion of new technologies increased...
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Welcome to the Age of the Splinternet
Openness is the Internet's great strength—and weakness. With powerful forces carving it up, is its golden age coming to an end?
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Leadership of Cyber Warriors
Leadership is a core competency of the officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers across the military services. A principle tenant of leadership...
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Journals For Certification, Conferences For Rapid Dissemination
The publication culture in computer science is different. Whereas other disciplines focus on journal publication, the standard practice...
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As Simple As Possible ? But Not More So
An assessment of the U.S. government's EINSTEIN project.
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From Interests to Values
Computer science is not that difficult but wanting to learn it is.
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Geography Is Alive and Well in Virtual Teams
Just because a team is virtual, it doesn't mean geography is dead.
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Who Needs Humans?
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
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Could What Happened to Myspace Happen to Facebook?
MySpace fell from grace for several reasons. First, they sacrificed the service's integrity in pursuit of monetization. For those who remember, the user experience...
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It Operations in Flux as Cloud Computing Adoption Increases, Survey Finds
A recent survey finds that with increasing reliance on cloud computing, IT executives are uncertain about the role of IT operations but also plan to invest in...
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The Race to Zero: Speech By Andrew Haldane
In a speech at the International Economic Association 16th World Congress in Beijing, Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability and member of...
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