Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness
The saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation’s mythology: he’s the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship...
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Score: Agile Research Group Management
Adapting agile software development methodology toward more efficient management of academic research groups.
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Version Aversion
The way you number your releases communicates more than you might think.
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Platforms and Services: Understanding the Resurgence of Apple
Combining new consumer devices and Internet platforms with online services and content is proving to be a successful strategy.
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Victorian Data Processing
The Victorian world was awash with data and with organizations that processed it; and they usually used nothing...
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5 Reasons the Media Cover Apple So Much
A study published Monday drew on a host of metrics to conclude something we all already knew: The media covers Apple more than any other company.
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A Q&A With a PARC Pioneer Reflecting on 'the Office of the Future' 40 Years Later
Palo Alto Research Center research fellow David Biegelsen, who has been at Xerox's legendary R&D lab from the beginning, reflected on being at the forefront of...
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Finally, a 21st Century Browser from Microsoft
Like many of us, Microsoft does its best work when it's running scared.
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The Snoop In Your Browser
Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life—online and off. Search...
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Future Internet Architecture: Clean-Slate Versus Evolutionary Research
Should researchers focus on designing new network architectures or improving the current Internet?
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Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever!
Revisiting the Great Objects Debate.
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Discussing Cyber Attack
Cyber attack—the other side of cyber defense—deserves a more open discussion than it has been getting.
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Principles of the Law of Software Contracts
An overview of a new set of legal principles for software contracts developed by the American Law Institute.
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I Tweet, Therefore I Am
On a recent lazy Saturday morning, my daughter and I lolled on a blanket in our front yard, snacking on apricots, listening to a download of E. B. White reading...
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Apple, Trackpads, and the Long Death of the Mouse
Another day, another envelope-pushing design from Apple intended to make us rethink the way we interact with our computers. Welcome to the Magic Trackpad.
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An Interview With Edsger W. Dijkstra
The computer science luminary, in one of his last interviews before his death in 2002, reflects on a programmer's life.
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Rights For Autonomous Artificial Agents?
The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.
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