From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
The Constitution gives Congress the power to grant inventors a temporary monopoly over their creations to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2014
Danah Boyd is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, a research assistant professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, and a fellow...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 24, 2014
For years, techies have argued that getting an extra monitor or two for your desktop computer is an especially effective way to increase personal productivity.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2014
Days after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 shortly after midnight on Saturday, investigators considering a range of possible causes—mechanical...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google—i.e., the guy in charge of hiring...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
It seems as if every week there's a news story about someone committing a crime and confessing to it on Facebook, bragging about it on Twitter or sharing photos...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2014
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 6, 2014
Five years ago, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision would have seemed like a science fiction film prop or a piece of surveillance hardware flown only by the sexiest of superspies...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
I like to plan ahead; that much I knew about myself before I plunged into exploring my genetic code.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2013
Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013