Papers I Thought Were Interesting

2026-03-18

Periodically updated with new papers of interest. Presented in no particular order.

• When are recommender systems useful?
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research
• Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World
• The Hardware Lottery
• To ArXiv or not to ArXiv: A Study Quantifying Pros and Cons of Posting Preprints Online
• Paving the Way for Mature Secondary Research: The Seven Types of Literature Review
• X-Risk Analysis for AI Research
• Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?
• Google Scholar is manipulatable
• Is ChatGPT Transforming Academics' Writing Style?
• Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis
• From Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI into their Writing Practice
• ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot
• How Deep Do Large Language Models Internalize Scientific Literature and Citation Practices?
• Research as Resistance: Recognizing and Reconsidering HCI's Role in Technology Hype Cycles
• "Explain, Don't Just Warn!" -- A Real-Time Framework for Generating Phishing Warnings with Contextual Cues
• Reassessing Collaborative Writing Theories and Frameworks in the Age of LLMs: What Still Applies and What We Must Leave Behind
• Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce
• Spreadsheet Risk - A New Direction for HMRC?
• Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken
• Stop That Subversive Spreadsheet!
• What is Community Informatics (and Why Does It Matter)?
• Spreadsheet Hell
• Increased security through open source
• Protecting Spreadsheets Against Fraud
• On the need for a global academic internet platform
• Free and Open Source Software for Development
• The first-mover advantage in scientific publication
• How long should an astronomical paper be to increase its Impact?
• 16 Propositions to Reconsider the Organization of a Scientific Workshop
• The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900-2007
• Peer-review in the Internet age
• Predicting the popularity of online content
• A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures
• Teacher's Evaluation - a Component of Quality Assessment System
• What Do Family Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients Desire in Smart Home Technologies?
• First Person Singular
• The Business of Selling Electronic Documents
• Feedback loops of attention in peer production
• PDF/A standard for long term archiving
• What Does Artificial Life Tell Us About Death?
• Exploration of the Gap Between Computer Science Curriculum and Industrial I.T Skills Requirements
• How does certainty enter into the mind?
• Can we debug the Universe?
• Knowledge Management
• Predicting the Future with Social Media
• Citing for High Impact
• Scholarly Communication
• What Trends in Chinese Social Media
• User Empowerment in the Internet of Things
• Net-Centric World: Lifestyle of the 21st Century
• Outsourcing Competence
• The Disclosure of University Research for Third Parties: A Non-Market Perspective on an Italian University
• Web Accessibility - A timely recognized challenge
• When Should I Make Preservation Copies of Myself?
• Are e-readers suitable tools for scholarly work?
• Science Visualization and Discursive Knowledge
• Forty hours of declarative programming: Teaching Prolog at the Junior College Utrecht
• A measure for the impact of research
• Which research in design creativity and innovation? Let us not forget the reality of companies
• User Interface Design for E-Learning Software
• Human Activity Recognition using Smartphone
• Freedom From Restriction, Freedom Of A Restriction: A Comparison Of Some Open Source Software Licenses
• On the anonymizability of mobile traffic datasets
• The Effects of Research Level and Article Type on the Differences between Citation Metrics and F1000 Recommendations
• Using Socrative and Smartphones for the support of collaborative learning
• Reviving the past: the growth of citations to old documents
• Personal Data: Thinking Inside the Box
• Cyber Attacks and Public Embarrassment: A Survey of Some Notable Hacks
• Measuring academic influence: Not all citations are equal
• Practical and Legal Challenges of Cloud Investigations
• Teachable Agent
• Conferences vs. Journals: Throwing the baby out with the bath water?
• A Preliminary Review of Influential Works in Data-Driven Discovery
• Social media in scholarly communication
• Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles in Computer Science
• Funding acknowledgment analysis:Queries and Caveats
• Habits vs Environment: What really causes asthma?
• Think before you collect: Setting up a data collection approach for social media studies
• Computer Science Programs, Goals, Student Learning Outcomes and their Assessment
• Is collaboration among scientists related to the citation impact of papers because their quality increases with collaboration? An analysis based on data from F1000Prime and normalized citation scores
• Science on YouTube: What users find when they search for climate science and climate manipulation
• Embracing Data Science
• Can scientists and their institutions become their own open access publishers?
• What the Language You Tweet Says About Your Occupation
• Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence Courses
• Beyond the EULA: Improving consent for data mining
• How to Search the Internet Archive Without Indexing It
• Who Will Win Practical Artificial Intelligence? AI Engineerings in China
• Pushing STEM-education through a social-media-based contest format - experiences and lessons-learned from the H2020-project SciChallenge
• Google Scholar and the gray literature: A reply to Bonato's review
• Research Methods in Computer Science: The Challenges and Issues
• Discovering Scholarly Orphans Using ORCID
• What is the next innovation after the internet of things?
• Detecting Low Rapport During Natural Interactions in Small Groups from Non-Verbal Behaviour
• Terminologies for Reproducible Research
• Do Citations and Readership Identify Seminal Publications?
• How to Read a Research Compendium
• Technology, Propaganda, and the Limits of Human Intellect
• Big Data: the End of the Scientific Method?
• The anatomy of Reddit: An overview of academic research
• Understanding What Drives Bitcoin Trading Activities
• Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
• Kolmogorov complexity in the USSR (1975--1982): isolation and its end
• Regulatory Markets for AI Safety
• Exciting, Useful, Worrying, Futuristic: Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence in 8 Countries
• The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web
• Whose Tweets are Surveilled for the Police: An Audit of Social-Media Monitoring Tool via Log Files
• Perfecting the Crime Machine
• A Hierarchy of Limitations in Machine Learning
• Knowledge Scientists: Unlocking the data-driven organization
• MiniConf -- A Virtual Conference Framework
• Do Abstractions Have Politics? Toward a More Critical Algorithm Analysis
• The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist
• Sharing Heartbeats: Motivations of Citizen Scientists in Times of Crises
• The Slodderwetenschap (Sloppy Science) of Stochastic Parrots -- A Plea for Science to NOT take the Route Advocated by Gebru and Bender
• Is preprint the future of science? A thirty year journey of online preprint services
• What Kind of Person Wins the Turing Award?
• Who Owns the Data? A Systematic Review at the Boundary of Information Systems and Marketing
• Towards a Theory of Bullshit Visualization
• Preventing Cheating in Hands-on Lab Assignments
• Phocus: Picking Valuable Research from a Sea of Citations
• Data Science in Perspective
• Sharing Begins at Home
• Flat Teams Drive Scientific Innovation
• Can Machine Learning be Moral?
• From 996 to 007: Challenges of Working from Home During the Epidemic in China
• The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career
• A Brief Guide to Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Interactive Machine Learning
• Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius
• Mary Kenneth Keller: First US PhD in Computer Science
• Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
• The Role of Author Identities in Peer Review
• Unpacking the "Black Box" of AI in Education
• Towards The Creation Of The Future Fish Farm
• Report on the Future of Conferences
• The moral authority of ChatGPT
• "This Applies to the RealWorld": Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science Assignment
• Heckerthoughts
• The First Computer Program
• Data Science from 1963 to 2012
• The 4+1 Model of Data Science
• Effects of Research Paper Promotion via ArXiv and X
• History of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots: past, present, and future development
• HTML papers on arXiv -- why it is important, and how we made it happen
• A guideline for the methodology chapter in computer science dissertations
• Quantifying the Dynamics of Harm Caused by Retracted Research
• "It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
• Take-home Complexity
• Efficient generation of rotating workforce schedules
• The Competitiveness of On-Line vis-a-vis Conventional Retailing: A Preliminary Study
• location.location.location: Internet Addresses as Evolving Property
• Links tell us about lexical and semantic Web content
• The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage
• The Internet, 1995-2000: Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction
• Revenge of the Bell Heads: How the Net Heads Lost Control of the Internet
• Internet Radio: A New Engine for Content Diversity?
• Price Increases from Online Privacy
• Monopoly Power on the Web - A Preliminary Investigation of Search Engines
• Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957-1969
• Profiling Internet Users' Participation in Social Change Agendas: An application of Q methodology
• Bringing the Internet to Schools: US and EU policies
• Using the Annotated Bibliography as a Resource for Indicative Summarization
• Web Services for the Virtual Observatory
• Eprints and the Open Archives Initiative
• Make search become the internal function of Internet
• Using biased coins as oracles
• Toward a New Policy for Scientific and Technical Communication: the Case of Kyrgyz Republic
• Should Cyberspace Chat Rooms be closed to protect Children?
• From Digital Television to Internet?
• The Effect of Use and Access on Citations
• Scientific impact quantity and quality: Analysis of two sources of bibliographic data
• SciBlog : A Tool for Scientific Collaboration
• Copyright and Promotion: Oxymoron or Opportunity?
• The egalitarian effect of search engines
• Information and Stock Prices: A Simple Introduction
• Reconstructing Websites for the Lazy Webmaster
• Journal Status
• If a tree casts a shadow is it telling the time?
• Mapping the Bid Behavior of Conference Referees
• Ten Incredibly Dangerous Software Ideas
• Separating the articles of authors with the same name
• Protocols for Scholarly Communication
• Interactive Problem Solving in Prolog
• Wikipedia: organisation from a bottom-up approach
• Bias in the journal impact factor
• The Unix KISS: A Case Study
• On the robustness of the h-index
• Plagiarism Detection in arXiv
• Exploring the academic invisible web
• Recruitment, Preparation, Retention: A case study of computing culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The Revolution Yet to Happen
• Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Base Preservation Project
• Making the most of electronic journals
• What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals
• Let Your CyberAlter Ego Share Information and Manage Spam
• A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything
• You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models