Trading Bits for Atoms: How Digital Products Are Reshaping the Global Economy
Digital trade is a new engine of economic growth that alters traditional notions of trade balances.
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A young man's desperation to recount a forgotten part of his memory leads him down a dark path.
A look at the mechanics and economics of the AI-enabled cybercriminal frontier, plus actionable insights for defense.
How the U.S. National Science Foundation Enabled Software-Defined Networking
Funding by the NSF helped SDN revolutionize how networks are built and operated.
Reinventing AI: Is It the Time for a New Paradigm?
Breaking the dogma that AI requires huge computing power and huge datasets could open up new technological horizons.
Tech Workers Versus Enshittification
Tech workers have historically been monumentally uninterested in unionization, but now is the time to get organized.
Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis
While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.
The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
Software researchers can make their research more accessible by actively approaching those communities that stand to benefit most from their findings.
Culture, Language, and Generative Language Models
Human users are prone to believe that a generative language model is erudite and intelligent, conflating linguistic competence with other human characteristics.
Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?
A common complaint is that developers infringe by using in-copyright materials as training data for the foundation models that power their AI systems.
"We owe it to an increasingly digitally dependent society to make its digital infrastructure as resilient, reliable, and safe as possible."
Software development always requires conversation. The meta question is: “How much communication?”
Upstart Puzzles: Selective Sponges
This puzzle abstracts the microRNAs sponges problem to its core algorithmic issues.
Not Every AI Problem Is a Data Problem
The shape of data itself may hold valuable clues that could inform the success of data-driven scaling.
China’s experience with digital payment platforms suggest a roadmap for other central banks.
Federal Research Investment and Innovation in Information Technology: A Virtuous Cycle
Federal investment in research, particularly in the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of computing, is not merely an expenditure but a strategic imperative.
Toward Ubiquitous Operating Systems: Lessons from the Field
Ubiquitous operating systems are rapidly revolutionizing the ecosystem of consumer electronics and IoT.
Confusing the Map for the Territory
Trying to capture culture in datasets is akin to believing you have captured everything important about the world in a map.
Embracing Her Critics To Refine VoIP
"When I started listening to what my critics were actually saying, I thought, 'Okay, then that’s what we’re going to do. Thank you for letting me know.'"
A Generative AI-Powered Digital Twin for Adaptive NASH Care
A generative AI-powered conversational digital twin integrated with modular clinical pathways could transform liver health management.
Deleting X: Why SIGDOC Left the Platform
Why would an organization choose to remain on a social media platform that is the very antithesis of what the organization embodies and hopes to promote?
Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?
The stable business model on which the Web thrived is now being threatened by GenAI.
Human subjugation by uncaring machines is a very plausible path to a different singularity.
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