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 Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an "activity map" that would show in unprecedented detail the workings of the human,...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2013
Great design, the management expert Gary Hamel once said, is like Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of pornography—you know it when you see it.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2013
Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said on Thursday that he would resign effective mid-February.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 1, 2013
In January 2011, I was assigned to cover a hearing in Newark, where Daniel Spitler, then 26, stood accused of breaching AT&T's servers and stealing 114,000 email...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2013
Meeting Simon for the first time was one of the most sublime experiences I've had. With every coy head nod, casual hand wave and deep eye gaze, I felt he already...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 29, 2013
Human beings are born with an innate capacity to learn languages. Yet while mathematics is the language of pattern and form, many people struggle to acquire even...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2013
Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2013
A perversion of smartphone technology called "stalking apps"—precise, secretive trackings of the movements of cellphone users—is increasingly a matter of national...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 7, 2012
If you read the newspapers on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, you would have been led to believe that Japan was poised to attack—but in Southeast Asia, not Pearl Harbor...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 7, 2012
Jeff Hawkins has been a pioneer of mobile devices, a distinguished lecturer in neuroscience, and a published author of a revolutionary theory of how the brain works...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2012
Monday afternoon, just half a day before the polls opened, Prof. Mark Crispin Miller was feeling pessimistic about the electoral process.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Not long after I began writing about cybersecurity, I became a paranoid caricature of my former self.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Many people cite Albert Einstein's aphorism "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." Only a handful, however, have had the opportunity...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 1, 2012
Mitt Romney said in all three presidential debates that we need to expand the economy. But he left out a critical ingredient: investments in science and technology...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 29, 2012