Communications of the ACM
Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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What Does Saying That 'Programming Is Hard' Really Say, and About Whom?
Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.
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In Praise of the Disassembler
There is much to be learned from the lower-level details of hardware.
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Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice
Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Science Needs to Engage With Society: Some Lessons From COVID-19
Recent experiences toward communicating science to the general public.
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The Domestic Computer Science Graduate Students Are There, We Just Need to Recruit Them
Proven practices to recruit domestic computer science graduate students.
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How Do We Stop the Supercomputing Carbon Crisis?
Efficiency measures are struggling to keep pace with, let alone make headway on, the accelerating demands of modern supercomputers.
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The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won't Be Fortran
To understand where talent shortages might arise, look at critical infrastructure.
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Responsible Computing During COVID-19 and Beyond
Navigating the ethical and societal impacts of technologies.
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The Limits of Differential Privacy (and Its Misuse in Data Release and Machine Learning)
Differential privacy is not a silver bullet for all privacy problems.
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Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects
Acquiring developer-prized practical skills, knowledge, and experiences.
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The 2021 Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.
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Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research
Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process.
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A Vision to Compute like Nature: Thermodynamically
Advocating a new, physically grounded, computational paradigm centered on thermodynamics and an emerging understanding of using thermodynamics to solve problems...
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Locality and Professional Life
The locality principle extends beyond computer memories. It teaches us something about being human.
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Aversion to Versions
Code needs to run anywhere as long as the necessary dependencies can be resolved.
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The Risks of Election Believability (or Lack Thereof)
With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
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Data Scientists' Important Role in Defeating COVID Vaccine Skepticism
Without a basic understanding of data measures and how they're computed, data-driven vaccine safety and effectiveness messages can become meaningless sound bites...
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Trustworthy Scientific Computing
Addressing the trust issues underlying the current limits on data sharing.
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