Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Avalanches Are Coming
Computing technology has generated conditions for radical transformations of jobs and professions — including education. How shall we cope?
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FUD: A Plea For Intolerance
Relying on dubious claims can cause researchers to focus on the wrong questions and organizations to misdirect security spending.
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EMV: Why Payment Systems Fail
What lessons might we learn from the chip cards used for payments in Europe, now that the U.S. is adopting them too?
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...
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Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future
I'm as big a believer in the transformational power of cloud computing as anyone you'll meet.
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The Move Toward Computing That Reads Your Mind
Like many people in this modern world, I struggle with the tension between the conveniences offered by the latest technology and the loss of privacy that comes...
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Robots Are Coming
Considering the societal implications of the robotics revolution.
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Building a Virtual Community of Practice For K-12 CS Teachers
Bringing educators together and focusing their interests toward improving computer science education in high schools.
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Tom Kilburn: A Tale of Five Computers
Reflections on a British computer engineer who influenced several important machines, including the first stored-program computer.
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What Happened to Video Game Piracy?
How video games thrive in a world of piracy.
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Why Bitcoin Has Value
Evaluating the evolving controversial digital currency.
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The Fuzzy Math Behind the Search For Mh370
Five weeks into the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, more than $30 million has been spent scouring great swatches of the southern Indian Ocean.
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Captchas Are Becoming Security Theater
CAPTCHAs are a time-worn way for humans to tell computers that we are human.
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MOOCs Revisited, With Some Policy Suggestions
Assessing the rapidly evolving realm of massive open online courses.
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Thinking Outside the Continent
Encouraging the opportunities for digital innovation and invention to flourish in a variety of social environments.
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Small Data, Where N = Me
Seeking personalized data-derived insights from analysis of our digital traces.
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