Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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The Myth of the Elevator Pitch
Instead of pitching, listen and offer.
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The Idea Idea
What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?
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The Grounding Practice
The skill of making and recognizing grounded claims is essential for professional practice. Getting objective data to support your conclusions is not enough.
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Managing Time, Part 2
Masterful time management means not just tracking of messages in your personal environment, but managing your coordination network with others.
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Who Are We - Now?
Considerable progress has been made toward the formation of a computing profession since we started tracking it in this column a decade ago.
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Managing Time
Professionals overwhelmed with information glut can find hope from new insights about time management.
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Discussing Cyber Attack
Cyber attack—the other side of cyber defense—deserves a more open discussion than it has been getting.
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The Resurgence of Parallelism
Parallel computation is making a comeback after a quarter century of neglect. Past research can be put to quick use today.
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Orchestrating Coordination in Pluralistic Networks
Learning to build virtual teams of people of diverse backgrounds is an urgent challenge.
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Computing's Paradigm
Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.
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Computing: The Fourth Great Domain of Science
Computing is as fundamental as the physical, life, and social sciences.
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Is Software Engineering Engineering?
Software engineering continues to be dogged by claims it is not engineering. Adopting a computer-systems view that embraces hardware, software, and user environment...
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