Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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The Perils of Machine Learning in Designing New Chemicals and Materials
As ML tools become more broadly available when making new compounds and materials, the possibilities of misuse increase and must be guarded against.
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Information: 'I' vs. 'We' vs. 'They'
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
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Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
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Can AI Improve Road Safety Now?
Well before self-driving cars become a reality, there are simpler approaches that can make roads much safer.
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Can Open Source Sustain Itself without Losing Its Soul?
What it means to be an open source contributor or maintainer has changed in recent years.
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How Ukraine Has Defended Itself against Cyber Attacks
As in Ukraine, U.S. organizations should work with U.S. cybersecurity agencies to prepare for and prevent attacks.
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The Missing Voices in Natural Language Processing
Who and what is being represented in the data and development of NLP models?
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Patterns and Prose
A University of Southern California computer scientist is a coder by trade and a poet at heart.
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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Quantum Computing Has a Hype Problem
Quantum computing startups are all the rage, but it is unclear if they will be able to produce anything of use in the near future.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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Congress's Antitrust Bills Have a Problem: The Happy Customer
Politicians must walk a fine line as they try to rein in Big Tech's self-preferencing tactics.
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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Systems Abstractions
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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