Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Q&A: Corrado Priami Explains Why Computer Science Is Systems Biology's Best Foundation
"Computer science is the best candidate for laying the foundation of systems biology, and not mathematics as it has been thought so far," says University of Trento...
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Gregg Favalora Talks About 3-D Imaging Breakthroughs
Gregg Favalora, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Actuality Medical Inc., discusses 'crystal ball' 3-D imaging, breakthrough...
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Xeround's Yarkoni Talks About the Cloud, Databases and More
Charlotte Yarkoni joined Xeround as chief executive officer 16 months ago. Now, the former Amdocs and Cingular executive is transitioning the software company from...
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...
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The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...
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Mobility Drives Intel's Growth With Notebooks Outselling Pcs
Mobility is the way forward for Intel in 2009 with the number of notebooks outselling PCs and the vendor recording one of its highest sales for its mobile processor...
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Why 99.9 Percent Is Not Good Enough
Peter Huber, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, is prophetic in this Ubiquity interview about the challenge of improving the U.S. electricity grid, a goal...
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Q&A: Our Dame Commander
Wendy Hall discusses her plans to increase ACM's membership and to create task forces in China, India, and Europe.
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Computing as Social Science
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest...
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It Built Into Your Jewelery
Henry Tirri, Nokia's head of research, says the economic downturn will lead to more investments in collaboration tools, broadband, video, and mobile technology...
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Advising Students For Success
Some advice for those doing the advising (and what the advisors can learn from the advisees).
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Your Students Are Your Legacy
This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.
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When Is a 'License' Really a Sale?
Can you resell software even if the package says you can't? What are the implications for copyright law of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 2008 decision...
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Is Software Engineering Engineering?
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...
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Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
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Inside Risks: U.S. Election After-Math
Recounting problems still associated with election integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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International Communications Tapped For Intelligence-Gathering
Governments concerned with national-security threats use the Internet to gather intelligence from communications traffic that transits local facilities. This surveillance...
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Human Computing Skills: Rethinking the K-12 Experience
Establishing the fundamentals of computational thinking is essential to improving computer science education.
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Economic and Business Dimensions: The Extent of Globalization of Software Innovation
Will the software development laboratories follow the production mills?
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