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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U…
From BLOG@CACM
Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
From BLOG@CACM
Cryptocurs Don't Asportate
Cryptocurrency on a blockchain cannot be stolen -- it's true.
From BLOG@CACM
Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
From BLOG@CACM
Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
From BLOG@CACM
Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
From BLOG@CACM
The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
From BLOG@CACM
Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
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The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
From BLOG@CACM
Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
From BLOG@CACM
The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
From BLOG@CACM
FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
From BLOG@CACM
Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
From BLOG@CACM
Tech Ethics at Work
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
From BLOG@CACM
Human Acts and Computer Apps
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
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It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
From BLOG@CACM
Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
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