Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
From ACM Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Shut Up
Since 2017, nearly every time the Facebook CEO has tried to sound thoughtful, he's sounded unprepared, shallow, and full of hubris. Time to zip it.
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Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
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An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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Computational Thinking Should Just be Good Thinking
Seeking to change computing teaching to improve computer science.
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Europe's Controversial Digital Copyright Directive Finalized
Considering the new liability risks for ISPs, search engines, and news aggregators under recent EU-wide mandatory rules.
From ACM Opinion
Hackathon Victor on Laying Foundations and CS Support Systems
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a computer-science major at North Carolina A&T State University, helped lead a team of four students to a First Place victory at the Black Enterprise...
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Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation
Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, says that as president he would issue a robot tax for corporations...
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How Voice Assistants Reinforce the Tech Gender Gap
Voice assistants are becoming commonplace in most homes and offices, but using women's voices for most devices may be doing more harm than good.
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Inspired by the Home of the Future
2018 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Shwetak Patel pushes old tools to new heights.
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Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)
Seeking to make online voting more secure than today's flawed paper systems.
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Internet Immunity and the Freedom to Code
A call to preserve the capability of developing the next generation of Internet services.
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The Success of the Web: A Triumph of the Amateurs
Connecting the unique factors that influenced the origination and subsequent development of the World Wide Web.
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Block-based Programming in Computer Science Education
Considering how block-based programming environments and tools might be used at the introductory level and beyond.
From ACM Opinion
What's It Like to Work In an Amazon Fulfillment Center?
A former employee discusses the floor conditions she experienced at an Amazon fulfillment center, why the quota system there can be so brutal, and what happens...
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Richard Feynman Was Wrong About Beauty and Truth in Science
Richard Feynman was unquestionably one of the outstanding physicists of the 20th century. In the area of philosophy of science, though, Feynman didn't really shine—to...
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Our Disabilities Have Made s Better Scientists
Scientific research is rarely designed to accommodate scientists with medical conditions or disabilities.
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Should Data Scientists Also Learn Social Sciences?
The need of the hour is to become an active technological citizen which involves the ability to code and asking questions about how that code is going to affect...
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