For all of its history, the Internet has enjoyed the fruits of an openness principle: the idea that anyone can reach any site online and that information and data...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2014
In a fast-moving war with an elusive foe like the Islamic State militants, information is as important as guns, jet fighters and bombs.Reuters From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was shot during an encounter with police in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, was recorded by a convenience store surveillance camera...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
Just as Islamic State (IS) has swept across Iraq, so too has it swarmed over social media—using the platform with a sophistication never before witnessed in this...BBC News From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
A growing stack of companies would like you to pay a monthly fee to read e-books, just like you subscribe to Netflix to binge on movies and TV shows.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables...The Conversation From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2014
Sockpuppetry—using false identities for deception—is centuries old, but the advent of the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2014
Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
On Sept. 7, 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, a U.S. Predator drone flew over Afghanistan for the first time.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
There's a box on a shelf in my closet stuffed with smart smoke detectors, old smartphones, chargers, battery cases, fitness trackers, a Kindle that I sat on and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 25, 2014
Invoke the word autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical, impossible errors one finds collected on sites like Damn...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2014
Considering a program for cross-disciplinary research between computer scientists and economists studying the effects of computers on work.Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014
An agent-based approach to integrating computing in secondary-school science courses.Uri Wilensky, Corey E. Brady, Michael S. Horn From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.Seda GÜrses From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014