Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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STEM Education Status Quo Is a Recipe For Trouble
A STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education initiative is long overdue! Data on science education in America collected over the past few...
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Computing as Social Science
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest...
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Will Your Talent Pool Fix You Or Ruin You When Growth Returns?
With the national unemployment rate now above 8% and many companies dealing with frozen or slashed IT budgets, it's a pretty long stretch to imagine a shortage...
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Staying Afloat in Today's Crowded Talent Pool
Bob Damon (pictured), president of North America for executive search firm Korn/Ferry International, explains how senior IT professionals can find new job opportunities...
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Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S.
Based on a study of Indian and Chinese immigrants in the IT sector, Vivek Wadhwa suggests that highly skilled immigrant workers are returning home for brighter...
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Advising Students For Success
Some advice for those doing the advising (and what the advisors can learn from the advisees).
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Your Students Are Your Legacy
This Viewpoint boils down into a few magazine pages what I've learned in my 32 years of mentoring Ph.D. students.
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When Is a 'License' Really a Sale?
Can you resell software even if the package says you can't? What are the implications for copyright law of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 2008 decision...
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Is Software Engineering Engineering?
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...
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Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet.
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Inside Risks: U.S. Election After-Math
Recounting problems still associated with election integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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International Communications Tapped For Intelligence-Gathering
Governments concerned with national-security threats use the Internet to gather intelligence from communications traffic that transits local facilities. This surveillance...
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Human Computing Skills: Rethinking the K-12 Experience
Establishing the fundamentals of computational thinking is essential to improving computer science education.
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Economic and Business Dimensions: The Extent of Globalization of Software Innovation
Will the software development laboratories follow the production mills?
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The Dot-Org Difference
One of the first things you'll notice about the new Communications Web site (cacm.acm.org) is that it has different...
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Seven Principles For Secure E-Voting
E-voting can be as secure and confidential as paper-based voting, as discussed in "The U.S. Should Ban Paperless...
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USACM's Policy Role
ACM members have a professional duty to ensure that the public comprehends and benefits from advances in computing.
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Why Ebay Lost to Taobao in China: The Glocal Advantage
How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer...
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Viewpoint: Scaling the Academic Publication Process to Internet Scale
A proposal to remedy problems in the reviewing process.
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