Communications of the ACM
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December 2016
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Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.
The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about overpopulation.
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What Is 'military Artificial Intelligence'?
We are in an era of existential fear of technology.
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Trump's First 100 Days: Technology, Privacy and Intelligence
President-elect Donald Trump's views on technology and tech policy were not prominent campaign features on his contentious path to the White House.
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Beyond Touch: Tomorrow's Devices Will se Mems ltrasound to Hear Your Gestures
Today, we control our electronic world by touch—we tap, we swipe, we pinch and zoom.
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The New Words That Expose Our Smartphone Obsessions
New words sometimes skewer a trend so perfectly you wonder how you survived without them. One of the most delightfully apt new phrases I've found in the last few years is a Chinese term:dī tóu zú (低頭族), literally the "bowed head…
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Nailing Smoke
Curation at the bleeding edge of technology.
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Learning to Learn
Do you get stuck when it is time to learn something new? Read this.
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Mentoring Female Assistant Professors Enhances Their Success
A randomized controlled trial validates many of the practices used to retain women in academia.
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(Mis)Managing Parallel Computing Research Through EU Project Funding
Considering the possible negative long-term effects of EU projects on European scientific culture.
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Assessing Abstraction Skills
What makes a good question?