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  Why academics under-share research data: a social relational theory
Mattern J., Kohlburn J., Moulaison-Sandy H. The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 75(9): 988-1001, 2024.  Type: Article

As an academic, I have cheered for and welcomed the open access (OA) mandates that, slowly but steadily, have been accepted in one way or another throughout academia. It is now often accepted that public funds means public research. Many of our un...

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  Private crypto versus public digital
Cusumano M. Communications of the ACM 67(10): 22-25, 2024.  Type: Article

Money is a representation of wealth. A US dollar represents a fraction of the total wealth of the country. This definition underlies any discussion of currency, whether physical cash or digital tokens. Gold and silver have traditionally been used ...

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   Shortcut learning of large language models in natural language understanding
Du M., He F., Zou N., Tao D., Hu X. Communications of the ACM 67110-120, 2024.  Type: Article

Du et al. write: “The shortcut learning behavior has significantly affected the robustness of [large language models, LLMs].” Predictions in these models “rely on dataset artifacts and biases within the hypothesis sentence.”...

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  Artificial intelligence to automate the systematic review of scientific literature
Torre-López J., Ramírez A., Romero J. Computing 105(1): 2171-2194, 2023.  Type: Article

The study shows that artificial intelligence (AI) has become highly important in contemporary computing because of its capacity to efficiently tackle intricate jobs that were typically carried out by people. The authors provide scientific literatu...

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   The man who saved geometry: the multidimensional mind of Donald Coxeter
Roberts S., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2024. 416 pp.  Type: Book (9780691264745)

“Thanks, I needed that!” I hasten to ask forgiveness for setting a seemingly frivolous tone in this review of a biography that far transcends the cradle-to-grave story of a great mathematician--as well told as that story is in thi...

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   Why machines learn: the elegant math behind modern AI
Ananthaswamy A., Penguin Random House, New York, NY, 2024. 480 pp.  Type: Book (9780593185742)

Anil Ananthaswamy’s Why machines learn provides a captivating deep dive into the mathematical principles that power modern machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The book offers a rich, narrative-driven exploration of the ...

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  Patterns of distributed systems
Joshi U., Pearson, Hoboken, NJ, 2023. 464 pp.  Type: Book (9780138221980), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Patterns of distributed systems offers a comprehensive guide to understanding the key design principles and patterns used in modern distributed systems. With the rise of cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Go...

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  Recommender systems: frontiers and practices
Li D., Lian J., Zhang L., Ren K., Lu T., Wu T., Xie X., Springer International Publishing, Singapore, 2024. 280 pp.  Type: Book (9789819989638)

With this book, Dongsheng Li et al. offer a comprehensive exploration of recommendation algorithms. They start with traditional recommendation systems, introducing readers to basic principles while critically analyzing their strengths and weakness...

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   The heart and the chip: our bright future with robots
Rus D., Mone G., W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2024. 272 pp.  Type: Book (9781324050230)

The heart and the chip: our bright future with robots, by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone, is an insightful exploration of the future of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on how these technologies will transform every aspect ...

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  The science of detecting LLM-generated text
Tang R., Chuang Y., Hu X. Communications of the ACM 67(4): 50-59, 2024.  Type: Article

While large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can assist writers with editing, they might hinder students from learning to generate ideas or write creatively....

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