Communications of the ACM
From Communications of the ACM
Information: 'I' vs. 'We' vs. 'They'
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
From Communications of the ACM
Toward Justice in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship
Proposing a justice-centered CS education.
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Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
From ACM Opinion
AI Is Creating a New Colonial World Order
Artificial intelligence is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.
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Can AI Improve Road Safety Now?
Well before self-driving cars become a reality, there are simpler approaches that can make roads much safer.
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Why It Is So Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased
Competing notions of fairness exist, and sometimes they are totally incompatible with each other.
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Can Open Source Sustain Itself without Losing Its Soul?
What it means to be an open source contributor or maintainer has changed in recent years.
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How Ukraine Has Defended Itself against Cyber Attacks
As in Ukraine, U.S. organizations should work with U.S. cybersecurity agencies to prepare for and prevent attacks.
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The Missing Voices in Natural Language Processing
Who and what is being represented in the data and development of NLP models?
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Patterns and Prose
A University of Southern California computer scientist is a coder by trade and a poet at heart.
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Our Human Future in an Age of AI
What does it mean to be human in an age where AI agents make decisions that shape human actions?
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Unions Have a Long Way to Go after Amazon Victory
Without greater momentum on their side, the New York stunner looks more like chance than pattern.
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The Future of AI in Games
Making artificial intelligence a tool of freedom and creativity for everyone.
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Hugs to Boring Tech
Don't underestimate the tech that makes your eyes glaze over—it holds us all up.
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
From ACM Opinion