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ChatGPT (and Other Generative AI Applications) as a Disruptive Technology for Computer Science Education: Obsolescence or Reinvention
Generative AI may turn out to be disruptive technologies for computer science education, but generative AI can also be conceived…
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Intellectual Amplification via Computing
As the recent performance of IBM's Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! illustrated, the combination of large-scale data, rich algorithm suites and powerful...
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Works in Progress: MIA
It is time we extracted a sample of cultural DNA from computing's history and engineered a new generation of contemplative, informal workshops. After gestation,...
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To Videolecture or Not
Should conferences cover the cost of a videolecture or not? I say "yes."
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HPC and the Excluded Middle
Betwixt and between ubiquitous consumer software and the ethereal realm of ultra-high-performance computing, lies the excluded middle, the world of day-to-day computational...
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How Should Peer Review Evolve?
A simmering debate on peer review processes threatens to boil to the surface of various discussion forums for the scientific communities and the public at large...
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Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport
The success or failure of technology transfer depends on many factors. No single mechanism is guaranteed to succeed, though there are many mechanisms that are likely...
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Mind Meld in Group Decision Making
Social computing remains a hot research topic, and basic research on understanding group decision making and conditions under which crowdsourcing can lead to advantages...
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In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics...
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Web Applications Crave Memory
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.
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Consumerization of IT and Research
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...
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Social Media and the Twitter Backchannel at CHI2010
A marked difference at CHI 2010 compared to last year is the amount of research around social media and the use of social media during the conference. These practices...
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Time to Rethink Computer Science Education: The (Social) Web Changes Everything!
Let's rethink computer science education in face of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and beyond. The Internet have changed everything we know about how computing is done. It's...
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Has the Spam War Been Won?
A decade ago, e-mail spam was a severe problem. Now, e-mail spam is barely noticeable. After years of battles between spam filters and spammers creating new tricks...
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Thinking Globally, Thinking Locally: Infrastructures For Collaboration
What does it take for people to collaborate in spite of geographical, disciplinary and cultural differences? This article looks at the work of two researchers...
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Paucity to Plethora: Jevons Paradox
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...
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Showcasing European Computer Science
Retrospective on the 2009 European Computer Science Summit and the launch of ACM Europe
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The DARPA Network Challenge and the Design of Social Participation Systems
What have we learned from the DARPA Network Challenge and the design of social participation systems? The principal concern for designers of social participation...
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The Ghosts of Holiday Shopping: Past, Present and Future
In many parts of the western world, the frenzy of holiday shopping has reached its crescendo. With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is instructive to consider...
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