Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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More Details, but Not Enough
Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code as promised.
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Mining the Margins to Save Lives
Using artificial intelligence to ensure fewer donated kidneys are discarded, and that food donations make it to those in need via what is fast becoming an Internet...
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Is AI Becoming Sentient?
Determining AI's sentience, its capacity to experience feelings and sensations, will take some time.
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Protecting Children's Privacy Online
Assuring youngsters they can use websites without giving away their personal information is not child's play.
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Collegiate CS Ethics Programs Emerging En Masse
Universities have created new engineering ethics programs, added concentrated subject-matter ethics programs, and made ethics course material available through...
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The Data Science Boom is Here
Data science brings a new spin to computer science education.
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Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
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U.S. AI Policy Still Effectively A Closed Box
Expect a tapestry of federal, state and local policies to take shape.
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Higher Education Readies for a Quantum Leap
The nascent quantum industry is calling on higher education to begin preparing a quantum workforce with a broader, less specialized range of technical skills.
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Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Computing Community
Improving diversity is everybody’s job.
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Rethinking Public Broadband
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
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'We Have Emphasized Learning and Compassion'
Computer science instruction adjusts to the coronavirus pandemic.
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