Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Over the past week, at least two venerable American newspapers--the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer--published a 56-page insert of summer content that was in large part produced by A.I. The most glaring evidence was a now-notorious "summer reading list," which recommended 15 books, five of them real, 10 of them imaginary, with summaries of fake titles like Isabel Allende's Tidewater Dreams, Min Jin Lee's Nightshade Market, Rebecca Makkai's Boiling Point, and Percival Everett's The Rainmakers. The authors exist; the books do not. The rest of the section, which included anodyne listicles about summer activities, barbecuing, and photography, soon attracted additional scrutiny.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce the second edition of the Communications of the ACM Latin American Regional Special Section. In this edition, we use this opportunity to showcase some of the region's most interesting as well as impactful advancements in computer science. Latin America is a highly heterogeneous continent with great diversity in culture, geography, demography, ethnicities, languages, and science and technology. When it comes to computer science, Latin American researchers have made significant contributions to multiple areas, such as software engineering, databases, networking and distributed systems, artificial intelligence, computer theory, and computer science education. In this Regional Special Section, we present only a small portion of the work researchers in Latin America are currently conducting. To create this edition, we put out a general call for contributions, receiving submissions from all regions of the continent.

Welcome to the special section highlighting cutting-edge research and innovation emerging from East Asia and Oceania. Our region encompasses Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Asia-Pacific countries, including Japan and Korea. The articles in this section--designated as "Hot Topics" and "Big Trends"--aim to not only showcase technological advancements from this region, but also to strengthen research collaboration and communication with regions worldwide. This special section brings together some of the most innovative research in computer science and technology from this flourishing region. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from state-of-the-art developments in learning analytics, AI and machine learning, education, Big Data, neuromorphic computing, and blockchain technology, to applications in disease prediction and assistive devices.

Computational sciences in the India region are going through an exciting time. While India has always had significant strength in theoretical computer science (CS), in recent years it has developed substantial presence and maturity in other, more applied areas of CS such as hardware and computer architecture, data science and artificial intelligence (AI), and cyber-security. Alongside pure research, there has been a significant push toward lab-to-field projects and technology transfer and deployment, creating broad impact to the region and beyond. Significant efforts have been made on the democratization of education through online courses, enabling the vast population to learn from a relatively limited number of available experts. All these activities have continued to bolster India's already strong IT industry and been a factor in the huge increase in the number of startups (under 1,000 in 2016 to over 60,000 in 2022a), with the number of unicorn startups reaching 100.b

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