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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…
From BLOG@CACM
Communing on Computing
Conferences can renew our professional commitment and inspire thought on problems we face.
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Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
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Cryptocurs Don't Asportate
Cryptocurrency on a blockchain cannot be stolen -- it's true.
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Safe Space for Alt-Views
Not everyone who questions computational hegemony is appealing to magic, mysticism, or divinity.
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Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
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First-Year Research Sources
Identifying publications for first-year research requires some digging and some non-standard choices.
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Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
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Computing Ethics and Teaching It
Ethics can and should be presented to computer science students in appropriate ways.
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The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
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Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
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Vice Epistemology of the Internet
How can we apply virtue epistemology to the problem of fake news?
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Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
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Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
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The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
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What Is a Variable?
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
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FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
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Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.12