Communications of the ACM
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October 2016
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Google Is Listening
You know the cliché that if you're not paying for the product, you are the product?
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Desperately Seeking the Nobel Prize For Computer Science
In its 115-year history, the Nobel Prize has endured just one innovation — the prize for economic sciences. It could use an update. It needs a dedicated prize for computer science.
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Would It Be Ethical to Implant False Memories in Therapy?
Take a moment to remember an event that you experienced as a child.
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Can a Chatbot Teach You a Foreign Language? Duolingo Thinks So
Chatbots suck.
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The Problem With Google's 'star Trek' Computer
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer on "Star Trek."
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The Puzzle of Japanese Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Exploring how Japan's unique mixture of social, educational, and corporate practices influence entrepreneurial activity.
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Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.
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Mobile Computing and Political Transformation
Connecting increased mobile phone usage with political and market liberalization.
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Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
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Risks of Automation: A Cautionary Total-System Perspective of Our Cyberfuture
Where automation is inevitable, let's do it right.