Communications of the ACM
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June 2019
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Under Trump, The Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned
The U.S. government is not doing enough to combat the burgeoning threat of cybercrime.
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Here Are 10 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
An international team of 22 big name AI researchers have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save the planet and humanity from imminent peril.
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Where Are All the Working Mothers in STEM?
Parenthood is a key driver of gender imbalance in STEM. Almost half of all women in full-time science jobs leave or go part-time after the birth of their first child. This is twice the number of men.
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Facebook's Calibra Is A Secret Weapon for Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency
Facebook's announcement of a new cryptocurrency, Libra, and the nonprofit association that will oversee it raises questions about the future of global banking and Facebook's role in it.
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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
A recent article about languages that developers love and those that they hate reported that Java was the third most loved language as well as the second most hated.
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Software Below the Poverty Line
The majority of open-source projects that we usually consider sustainable are actually receiving income below industry standards or even below the poverty threshold.
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Global Data Justice
A new research challenge for computer science.
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Through Computer Architecture, Darkly
Total-system hardware and microarchitectural issues are becoming increasingly critical.
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An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency
Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.
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Personal Data and the Internet of Things
It is time to care about digital provenance.