Communications of the ACM
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January 2019
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Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet’s Precursor, Dies at 81
Lawrence Roberts insisted that engineers look for practical uses for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.
From Communications of the ACM
Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?
Three-dimensional scanning can be used to protect or rebuild historic structures, but who owns that digital data?
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Quantum Leap
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
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Hidden Messages Fool AI
Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.