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
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2014
Does artificial intelligence threaten our species, as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently suggested?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
Year-end technology prediction lists can be dull fodder devoted to pie-in-the-sky concepts, outlandish marketing claims or rehashes of familiar trends.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 8, 2014
Six months ago, Chinese Internet-search giant Baidu signaled its ambitions to innovate by opening an artificial-intelligence center in Silicon Valley, in Google's...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 21, 2014
To hear Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt tell it, the U.S. government has only itself to blame for new efforts by Google and Apple Inc. to keep police...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2014
Chuck Hull, 75, is co-founder and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the 3-D printer, which recently celebrated its 31st anniversary.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | August 26, 2014
A growing stack of companies would like you to pay a monthly fee to read e-books, just like you subscribe to Netflix to binge on movies and TV shows.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
On Sept. 7, 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, a U.S. Predator drone flew over Afghanistan for the first time.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
Baseball—my passion and profession for three decades—has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 8, 2014
Facebook's massive psychological experiment involving almost 700,000 unwitting users has attracted plenty of attention and outrage, but it's far from the only time...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 1, 2014
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2014
Enough with complaining that young people these days are addicted to their phones. The question you should be asking is: What do they know that you don't?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
Robots may be poised to enter a new frontier in the workplace—but that doesn't mean the public is ready for it.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2014
Ray Kurzweil is teaching computers how to read better—one more step in the march of technological progress.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2014