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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based …
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Priming, Assimilation Bias, Social Proof in Social Media
As the US election draws near, what is the role that social media play in this political process? How do social theories and psychological tendencies affect the...
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How Should Peer Review Evolve?
A simmering debate on peer review processes threatens to boil to the surface of various discussion forums for the scientific communities and the public at large...
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Mind Meld in Group Decision Making
Social computing remains a hot research topic, and basic research on understanding group decision making and conditions under which crowdsourcing can lead to advantages...
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Time to Rethink Computer Science Education: The (Social) Web Changes Everything!
Let's rethink computer science education in face of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and beyond. The Internet have changed everything we know about how computing is done. It's...
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The DARPA Network Challenge and the Design of Social Participation Systems
What have we learned from the DARPA Network Challenge and the design of social participation systems? The principal concern for designers of social participation...
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