Communications of the ACM
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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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CS Unplugged or Coding Classes?
Perhaps a more appropriate question is 'Why not both'?
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The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering
Focusing on the human element of remote software engineer productivity.
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Let's Be Honest
Seeking to rectify the two mutually exclusive ways of comparing computational power — encoding and simulation.
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Data Is Power
Data has become a critical source of power, yet remains largely ungoverned. Washington needs to craft new rules.
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Automation and the 'Winner Take Most' Effect
The threat that automation poses to humans has been greatly exaggerated, says Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and a senior fellow...
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Building a Multilingual Wikipedia
Seeking to develop a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared among language editions.
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Roots of 'Program' Revisited
Considering the fundamental nature and malleability of programming.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
The complex legacy of Steven Levy's obsessive programmers.
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