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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How the AI Boom Went Bust
Fallout from an exploding bubble of hype triggered the real AI Winter in the late 1980s.
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There Was No 'First AI Winter'
Despite challenges and failures, the artificial intelligence community grew steadily during the 1970s.
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Innovators Assemble: Ada Lovelace, Walter Isaacson, and the Superheroines of Computing
Can computing history be both inspiring and accurate?
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The Tears of Donald Knuth
Has the history of computing taken a tragic turn?
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We Have Never Been Digital
Reflections on the intersection of computing and the humanities.
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Actually, Turing Did Not Invent the Computer
Separating the origins of computer science and technology.
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Software and Souls; Programs and Packages
How can historians tell stories about software without focusing solely on the code itself?
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Five Lessons from Really Good History
Lessons learned from four award-winning books on the history of information technology.
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Seven Lessons From Bad History
Journalists, historians, and the invention of email.
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