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
You may not realise it, but every time you open up your laptop or switch on your phone, you are at the heart of one of the greatest battles now taking place in...BBC News From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2014
Audie Cornish talks with University of Chicago Law School professor Omri Ben-Shahar about terms of service agreements for software and websites.NPR From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2014
Changes in land cover affect the global climate by absorbing and reflecting solar radiation, and by altering fluxes of heat, water vapour, carbon dioxide and other...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 2, 2014
This week, the man responsible for what is probably the biggest cryptographic failure in military history died—just a few months before he was due to be released...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | September 2, 2014
Every day our DNA breaks a little. Special enzymes keep our genome intact while we're alive, but after death, once the oxygen runs out, there is no more repair.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 29, 2014
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2014
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 27, 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
For the last half-century we've had a popular notion that our intellectual culture is sundered in two—the literary and the scientific.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2014
For all of its history, the Internet has enjoyed the fruits of an openness principle: the idea that anyone can reach any site online and that information and data...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2014
In a fast-moving war with an elusive foe like the Islamic State militants, information is as important as guns, jet fighters and bombs.Reuters From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was shot during an encounter with police in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, was recorded by a convenience store surveillance camera...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
A Senior cryptography expert has claimed multiple issues with PGP email encryption—an open source end-to-end encryption to secure email.The Hacker News From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2014
More than a year after ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden began leaking details of the agency's electronic surveillance programs, questions remain...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2014
I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.Scientific American 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
Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from his desk at BAE Systems in Warton, U.K.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014