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 Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.
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Involvement and Detachment
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
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Systems Abstractions
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
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Back of the Envelope
Back-of-the-envelope calculations are a powerful professional practice.
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Science Is Not Another Opinion
The issue is not who has the "truth," but whose claims deserve more credence.
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Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
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Technology Adoption
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
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The Idea Idea
What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?
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Âbiquity Symposium: What Have We Said About Computation?
A recent ACM Ubiquity symposium considered the question: “What is computation?” In this closing article, Ubiquity's editor-in-chief Peter J. Denning shares what...
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Managing Time
Professionals overwhelmed with information glut can find hope from new insights about time management.
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The Long Quest For -Universal Information Access
Digital object repositories are on the cusp of resolving the long-standing problem of universal information access in the Internet.
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