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Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation

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

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Toward a Solid Acceptance of the Decentralized Web of Personal Data: Societal and Technological Convergence

Giving individuals more control of their personal data. Ana Pop Stefanija, Bart Buelens, Elfi Goesaert, Tom Lenaerts, Jo Pierson, Jan Van den Bussche
From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2024

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Ulterior Motives

2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements... Leah Hoffmann
From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2023