Communications of the ACM
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December 2021
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Why You Should Care about Meta's Push into the Metaverse
The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the Internet
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Keeping AI in Healthcare in Check
Experts discuss the need to prevent AI bias in healthcare
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No, We Don't Have Living, Reproducing Robots
Kinematic self-replication is interesting research, but it isn't reproduction or replication
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Patent Absurdity
A case when ignorance is the best policy.
From Communications of the ACM
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
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Computational Thinking for Professionals
Professionals practice a form of computational thinking that is significantly more advanced than popular descriptions suggest.
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'In Situ' Data Rights
Improving on data portability.
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Accelerator-Level Parallelism
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.