In December 2023, the New York Times Company filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for the "defendants' unlawful use of The Time's work to create artificial intelligence products..." [8]. While this lawsuit alone should interest the Computers and ...

The position postulated in this Parting Opinion is quite simple: the answer to the question posed in the title is a resounding NO for many people; no matter which of the categories you're in. Hopefully, you're curious to know why I believe this. If you ...

Professional codes of ethics and conduct provide a convenient pedagogy for teaching students to consider social, ethical, and professional issues related to computing. Case studies offer a means for using these codes to analyze such issues, which ...

"Once upon a time on Tralfamdore there were creatures who weren't anything like machines...And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose...And the machines did everything so expertly that they were ...

It was a typical Friday morning. I had finished breakfast and moved on to my new practice of spending 15 minutes following a Shaolin breathing and movement exercise that I hoped would increase my flexibility and calm in my body. With just about 1 minute ...

On December 9, 2021, Apache announced a zero-day vulnerability in Apache Log4j [3]. As the news broke, tech companies and computing administrators scrambled to push out recommended mitigations. If you are reading this, chances are you already heard ...

In April, I decided that I wanted to give my writing more attention by committing to a daily writing practice. Although I really like to express myself using pen and paper, I find that it is much easier if I just digitize my writings from the beginning. ...

Every few months or so since graduate school, I encounter new circumstances that remind me of the relation between the descriptive and prescriptive approaches humans use to understand and navigate the world in which we live. My most recent reminder ...

The effect of introducing a "Stakeholder Impact Visualization" into the Consider step of the CARE process in The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is presented. This treatment increased the number and type of societal stakeholders identified ...