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The Success of the Web
From Communications of the ACM

The Success of the Web: A Triumph of the Amateurs

Connecting the unique factors that influenced the origination and subsequent development of the World Wide Web.

MUST and MUST NOT
From Communications of the ACM

MUST and MUST NOT

On writing documentation.

A Response to Fake News as a Response to <i>Citizens United</i>
From Communications of the ACM

A Response to Fake News as a Response to Citizens United

How boundaries on speech could free the market for speech.

Block-based Programming in Computer Science Education
From Communications of the ACM

Block-based Programming in Computer Science Education

Considering how block-based programming environments and tools might be used at the introductory level and beyond.

Congress Wants to Solve Deepfakes by 2020. That Should Worry ­Us
From ACM Opinion

Congress Wants to Solve Deepfakes by 2020. That Should Worry ­Us

Deepfakes are frightening, but so is Congress' rush to regulate them.

Richard Feynman Was Wrong About Beauty and Truth in Science
From ACM Opinion

Richard Feynman Was Wrong About Beauty and Truth in Science

Richard Feynman was unquestionably one of the outstanding physicists of the 20th century. In the area of philosophy of science, though, Feynman didn't really shine—to...

Our Disabilities Have Made ­s Better Scientists
From ACM Opinion

Our Disabilities Have Made ­s Better Scientists

Scientific research is rarely designed to accommodate scientists with medical conditions or disabilities.

Should Data Scientists Also Learn Social Sciences?
From ACM Opinion

Should Data Scientists Also Learn Social Sciences?

The need of the hour is to become an active technological citizen which involves the ability to code and asking questions about how that code is going to affect...

Teaching AIs to Make Mistakes Like Kids Would Help Them Learn Faster
From ACM Opinion

Teaching AIs to Make Mistakes Like Kids Would Help Them Learn Faster

Teaching artificial intelligence to think like children may make them better learners.

API Copyrights Revisited
From Communications of the ACM

API Copyrights Revisited

Deliberating on the main arguments in recent sets of briefs filed in support of Google's U.S. Supreme Court petition.

Who Benefits?
From Communications of the ACM

Who Benefits?

Considering the case of smart cities.

A New Labor Market for People with 'Coolabilities'
From Communications of the ACM

A New Labor Market for People with 'Coolabilities'

How the unique perspective and enhanced strengths accompanying disabilities can benefit the workforce.

GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful
From Communications of the ACM

GOTO Rankings Considered Helpful

Seeking to improve rankings by utilizing more objective data and meaningful metrics.

­Under Trump, The Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned
From ACM Opinion

­Under Trump, The Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned

The U.S. government is not doing enough to combat the burgeoning threat of cybercrime.

Here Are 10 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
From ACM Opinion

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...

Where Are All the Working Mothers in STEM?
From ACM Opinion

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...

Facebook's Calibra Is A Secret Weapon for Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency
From ACM Opinion

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...

Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
From ACM Opinion

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...

Software Below the Poverty Line
From ACM Opinion

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...

Personal Data and the Internet of Things
From Communications of the ACM

Personal Data and the Internet of Things

It is time to care about digital provenance.
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