Communications of the ACM
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August 2008
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Governance and Oversight Coming to AI and Automation: Independent Audit of AI Systems
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The Growing Tension Between Undergraduate and K-12: Is CS for All, or Just Those Who Get Past the Caps?
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What Is a Variable?
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The Secret History of Women in Coding
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Gravitational-Wave Observatory LIGO Set to Double Its Detecting Power
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An AI that Writes Convincing Prose Risks Mass-Producing Fake News
02.15.2019Here's some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on …