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…
From ACM Opinion
How the Aol-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong
A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at a stunning $350 billion. It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business...
From ACM Opinion
Why Twitter Will Endure
I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed...
From ACM Opinion
Search, But You May Not Find
As we become increasingly dependent on the Internet, we need to be increasingly concerned about how it is regulated. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed...
From ACM CareerNews
Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates?
PayScale, a site that collects data on salaries for different professions, recently released an updated data set from over 1.2 million users on the salaries of...
From ACM Opinion
The 0s and 1s of Computer Warfare
We are already in the Brave New World of cyberwarfare. Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and...
From ACM News