Communications of the ACM
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Q&a: John Chambers
Cisco Systems designs, makes, and sells the routers, switches, and other networking equipment with which businesses connect their computers, manage data centers...
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A Russian Cybersleuth Battles the 'dark Ages' of the Internet
A sense of menace stirs right off the elevator on the fifth floor of Kaspersky Lab's Moscow headquarters, where a small television screen displays cyberthreatsa...
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Q&A: Finding New Directions in Cryptography
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on their meeting, their research, and the results that billions use every day.
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An Interview with Yale Patt
ACM Fellow Professor Yale Patt reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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Promoting Women in Science
Utrecht University professor Lynda Hardman discusses the pressing need to promote participation of women in science in the Netherlands.
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Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...
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This Top Scientist Offers a Solution For the Havoc Driverless Cars May Wreck on Workers
Proponents of autonomous vehicles are in a sticky situation.
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The Man Selling Shovels in the Machine-Learning Gold Rush
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of the chipmaker Nvidia, is either very prescient or very lucky.
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Solving Silicon Valley's Gender Problem
In an interview, former Stanford University Graduate School of Business doctoral students Julie Oberweis and Monica Leas discuss the genesis of a survey detailing...
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'code Is Speech' Expert Cindy Cohn Explains Key Argument in Apple's Fight with the Fbi
Apple's argument that a court order forcing it to write software code violates its First Amendment rights is legally sound and raises serious concerns, according...
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Wikipedia Turns 15
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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Wendell Brooks on Preparing to Lead Intel Capital
In an exclusive interview, he spoke to reporter Deborah Gage in San Diego, where about 1,200 of Intel's executives, portfolio companies, partners and customers...
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An Interview with Fred Brooks
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Fred Brooks reflects on his career.
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Max Schrems, Who Torpedoed Safe Harbor 1, Sees No Safe Harbor 2
He's just helped bring down a longstanding trans-Atlantic data-transfer pact used by thousands of businesses and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems is already...
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What's Our Obsession with Steve Jobs All About?
The new movie "Steve Jobs" provides yet another take on the well known business celebrity. Thomas Streeter, professor of sociology at the University of Vermont,...
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Brynjolfsson and Mcafee: The Jobs that AI Can't Replace
At the heart of capitalism is the concept of creative destruction.
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Palmer Luckey: Making Virtual Reality a Reality
"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...
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Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture
Jun Wang is one of China's most famous scientists.
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