Communications of the ACM
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Just What Cyber Security Executives Don’t Want to Hear: The Skills Shortage is Worsening
The cyber security skills gap continues to get worse, according to the latest research.
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Q&A: Researchers Clicked on Ads to Track Misinformation
Researchers at the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering found that both mainstream and misinformation news sites display...
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We Need to Automate the Declaration of Conflicts of Interest
Leveraging existing data sources to improve the declaration and management of authorship conflicts of interest.
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Using Computer Programs and Search Problems for Teaching Theory of Computation
Recognizing the significance of a cornerstone of computer science.
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Lessons from Aviation
How more than 25years of experience with aviation safety-critical systems can be applied to autonomous vehicle systems.
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A Recent Renaissance in Privacy Law
Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.
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TECHNOLOchicas: A Critical Intersectional Approach Shaping the Color of Our Future
A unique partnership seeks to address the underrepresentation and unique barriers facing Latina women and girls of color in information technology.
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Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education
Rethinking the content of introductory computing around a data-centric approach to better engage and support a diversity of students.
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OMSCS: The Revolution Will Be Digitized
Lessons learned from the first five years of Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science program.
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Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack?
This post is an attempt to lay out some of the timeline of the attack, and point to clues about who may have been behind it.
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Formal Methods as a Path to Better Cybersecurity
Any piece of software should be able to provide the desired features, and when errors do occur, the software should handle them gracefully.
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AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
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The Cyberwar Needs More Women on the Front Lines
Educating girls to be the cybersecurity leaders of tomorrow will help combat criminals who prey on women and children.
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A Case for Banning Facial Recognition
A Google research scientist explains why she thinks the police shouldn't use facial recognition software.
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A Case for Banning Facial Recognition
A Google research scientist explains why she thinks the police shouldn't use facial recognition software.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
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Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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