Communications of the ACM
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My Battle with COVID-19
Azer Bestavros, associate provost for computing and data sciences at Boston University, describes the toll his month-long ordeal with the coronavirus took on his...
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Why Zoom Is Terrible
There's a reason video apps make you feel awkward and unfulfilled.
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Husband and Wife Start Scholarship for International CS Grad Students
Subhachandra Chandra and Nandita Dukkipati discuss the Chandra Family Scholarship, which will go to a first-year international graduate student majoring in computer...
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How Autonomous Shuttles Could Transform the College Experience
Transportation and parking remain an ongoing issue among campuses everywhere.
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Will Online Education Widen Asia's Digital Divide?
Some students may be at a disadvantage as e-learning relies heavily on home environments, experts say.
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Tips for Online Teaching: A Q&A With Trey Conatser
Trey Conatser, associate director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky, discusses efforts to expand support...
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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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A Vision of K-12 Computer Science Education for 2030
Exploring goals, perspectives, and challenges.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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Catherine D'Ignazio on Visualizing COVID-19 Data
Catherine D'Ignazio, assistant professor of urban science and planning at MIT, speaks about the current boom in COVID-19 data visualizations, and how data visualizers...
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Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role
Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive, and done in person...
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When School Is Online, the Digital Divide Grows Greater
Most U.S. schools are closed, with instruction shifting to the Internet. That's a problem for millions of people without reliable broadband, including 20 percent...
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STEM Education Needs a Course Correction
Technical training today should not be solely in the business of making better coders but of making better people who will be able to cultivate the future.
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Ritu Raman on the WISDM Database at MIT
Postdoc Ritu Raman speaks about the WISDM platform she developed to highlight female speakers at MIT.
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A Taxonomy of Automated Assistants
Rating your intelligent (human or automated) assistant.
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Organizing Family Support Services at ACM Conferences
Seeking to improve access to conferences and provide support for attendees with children.
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Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?
Examining the structure of the enterprise attack surface in view of the relative ease with which cyberdefenses can be subverted.
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