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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A Taxonomy of Automated Assistants
Rating your intelligent (human or automated) assistant.
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Organizing Family Support Services at ACM Conferences
Seeking to improve access to conferences and provide support for attendees with children.
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Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?
Examining the structure of the enterprise attack surface in view of the relative ease with which cyberdefenses can be subverted.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Professional Work
Considering the implications of the influence of artificial intelligence given previous industrial revolutions.
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The Temptation of Data-Enabled Surveillance
Are universities the next cautionary tale?
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How We Got Our Start In The Tech Industry
Six black women discuss how they got started in tech, provide advice to other black women looking to start in the industry, and suggest what tech companies can...
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Why Being A Programmer Will Make Me A Better Doctor
A few years of experience have shown me that some lessons I've learned from being a programmer generalize wonderfully into my life as a medical student.
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Joe Steinmeyer on Guiding Students Into the World of STEM
Joe Steinmeyer, a principal lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has taught more than 400 students in various Office...
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Interview with Claire Le Goues
Claire Le Goues, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, describes the similarities of high school debate and computer science, why it's fun to take...
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Through the Lens of a Passionate Theoretician
Considering the far-reaching and fundamental implications of computing beyond digital computers.
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Computing and Community in Formal Education
Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities. ...
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Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide —...
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We're Approaching the Limits of Computer Power – We Need New Programmers Now
Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past.
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Shaking Up the Diversity Pipeline
Jordan Pedraza of Handshake discusses how the company is democratizing access to career opportunities for college students of color.
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Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
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Von Neumann Thought Turing's Universal Machine was 'Simple and Neat.': But That Didn't Tell Him How to Design a Computer
New discoveries answer an old question.
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Increasing Automation in Policing
Seeking the delicate balance between civil liberties and policing public safety.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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