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
Congress could soon vote on a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to get a search warrant from a judge to obtain emails, photographs and other documents...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 10, 2016
There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 20, 2016
The technology for altering defects in the human genome has progressed so rapidly in the last three years that it has outstripped the ability of scientists and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2015
Welcome to the era of AI-human hybrid intelligence, where people and artificial intelligence systems work together seamlessly.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2015
It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
The October 15 release of the so-called Drone Papers, leaked reports that appear to document the U.S. use of drone aircraft for military purposes, has given the...Time From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2015
A decision on Tuesday by the European Union’s highest court, striking down an agreement between the E.U. and the United States that allows companies like Facebook...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2015
College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
Last month over a thousand scientists and tech-world luminaries, including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, released an open letter calling for a global...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 18, 2015
In June, a father of six was shot dead on a Monday afternoon in Evanston, Ill., a suburb 10 miles north of Chicago.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2015
Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called "Ten things we know to be true," an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 11, 2015
More than a year ago, in a decision that stunned many American Internet companies, Europe's highest court ruled that search engines were required to grant an unusual...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 6, 2015
When the history of the connected car is written, this week may go down as a pivotal moment for consumers worried about security.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2015