D. Schmudde
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Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.
“This is a truly monumental milestone,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, marking a new era for the global computing community.
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess
Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide.
“This is a truly monumental milestone,” said ACM President Yannis Ioannidis, marking a new era for the global computing community.
Explore ACM’s open access journey:
👉 https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess
We've heard your feedback on the new AI-generated summaries in the ACM Digital Library. Your concerns and suggestions are helping us shape a better tool for the community, and we’ve already begun taking steps to address them.
Check out our new FAQ to see what’s changing: https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
If you have questions that aren’t covered there, please reach out! This is just the beginning—we will continue to evolve this feature with your input at the forefront. The Digital Library will be fully Open Access starting January 2026; if you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, we’d love for you to take a look and share your thoughts. https://dl.acm.org/
Thank you for helping us build a better resource for the computing community.
#ACM #DigitalLibrary #ComputingCommunity
happyborg
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@hovav Those deploying #LLMs are frequently doing stupid, and this is a perfect illustration of that.
It's the most obviously daft thing I've seen yet. Not just bad but ridiculous...
To replace a hand crafted abstract with by a human to convey the essential information about a paper they wrote with an AI generated summary. 🤦♂️
And this is from the Association for Computing Machinery!
The @ACM are officially run by clowns.
Wim🧮
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I didn't think the #ACM could make me dislike the ACM DL more, so, congratulations I guess, on figuring out a way to do that and ALSO make it more expensive to run at the same time, with AI summaries for things that already have abstracts
Chip Butty
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Oh actually it's even worse #ACM what is wrong with you?
https://bsky.app/profile/cristinaabad.bsky.social/post/3ma5lnbn4rk2a
ACM is now showing an AI “summary” of a recent paper of mine on the DL instead of the abstract. As an author, I have not granted ACM the right to process my papers in this way, and will not. They should either roll back this (mis)feature or remove my papers from the DL.
@hovav Those deploying #LLMs are frequently doing stupid, and this is a perfect illustration of that.
It's the most obviously daft thing I've seen yet. Not just bad but ridiculous...
To replace a hand crafted abstract with by a human to convey the essential information about a paper they wrote with an AI generated summary. 🤦♂️
And this is from the Association for Computing Machinery!
The @ACM are officially run by clowns.
#ACM adding AI slop summaries, and even podcasts to my papers? It's a huge waste of resources; It's a denial of scientific rigor. It's an insult. 😞
ACM needs a volunteer-led, diamond open access digital library (DL), where the author does not pay and the reader does not pay. The ACM DL just got one job: Enable me to read my colleagues freaking papers! 😠
#ACMOpen is a disaster. 😢
https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2021/open-acm-membership-cancellation-letter/
I didn't think the #ACM could make me dislike the ACM DL more, so, congratulations I guess, on figuring out a way to do that and ALSO make it more expensive to run at the same time, with AI summaries for things that already have abstracts
Oh actually it's even worse #ACM what is wrong with you?
https://bsky.app/profile/cristinaabad.bsky.social/post/3ma5lnbn4rk2a
I didn't think the #ACM could make me dislike the ACM DL more, so, congratulations I guess, on figuring out a way to do that and ALSO make it more expensive to run at the same time, with AI summaries for things that already have abstracts
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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TIL about the discussions that occurred around the distinguishment of "capital oh" and "zero" for purposes
of readability and disambiguation back in the early 60s(!)
(Hilarious* to think that we're still sometimes having the same discussions 60 years later.)
via @fanf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363534.363563 (pdf)
#TIL #PDF #ACM
TIL about the discussions that occurred around the distinguishment of "capital oh" and "zero" for purposes
of readability and disambiguation back in the early 60s(!)
(Hilarious* to think that we're still sometimes having the same discussions 60 years later.)
via @fanf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363534.363563 (pdf)
#TIL #PDF #ACM
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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@ElenLeFoll To all #hci people out there - should we not try to create something similar to - maybe slowly but hopefully steadily - get away from #acm and their capitalist version of open access that excludes institutions who are not willing or able to pay their excessive publication fees?
@floe
@flowdie
@jbigham
@harvardhci
@hci@princeton.edu
@cmuhcii
@hcigroup
@jovermeulen
We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #OpenAccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #CogSci, and #DigitalHumanities! 🎉
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
@ElenLeFoll To all #hci people out there - should we not try to create something similar to - maybe slowly but hopefully steadily - get away from #acm and their capitalist version of open access that excludes institutions who are not willing or able to pay their excessive publication fees?
@floe
@flowdie
@jbigham
@harvardhci
@hci@princeton.edu
@cmuhcii
@hcigroup
@jovermeulen
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence," the paper that introduced the famous Turing Test.
On October 2, 2025, the Royal Society and the Web Science Institute, co-sponsored by ACM, will host a landmark celebration at The Royal Society, London (12:30–7pm UTC).
Join panels on Turing’s vision, the Test’s relevance today, and the future of AI.
Don’t miss this historic event. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-turing-test-tickets-1512110997699?aff=oddtdtcreator
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence," the paper that introduced the famous Turing Test.
On October 2, 2025, the Royal Society and the Web Science Institute, co-sponsored by ACM, will host a landmark celebration at The Royal Society, London (12:30–7pm UTC).
Join panels on Turing’s vision, the Test’s relevance today, and the future of AI.
Don’t miss this historic event. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-turing-test-tickets-1512110997699?aff=oddtdtcreator