Communications of the ACM
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July 2008
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On the Ethics of Cyberwar
07.26.2017Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
Coding in Schools as New Vocationalism: Larry Cuban on What Schools Are For
07.18.2017What are schools for, and is coding a necessary part of that?
Deep Dictionary
06.20.2017The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from …
Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
07.27.2017Comets that take more than 200 years to make one …
Complex Biological Computer Commands Living Cells
07.27.2017Researchers have developed a biological computer that functions inside living …
Big Names in Statistics Want to Shake Up Much-Maligned P Value
07.27.2017Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers …