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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Who Needs Humans?
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
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How to Design a Hot Product
When Cisco killed the beloved Flip camcorder a few months ago, a lot of people were shocked and upset—including me. It just seemed like such a ham-handed, thoughtless...
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The Race to Zero: Speech By Andrew Haldane
In a speech at the International Economic Association 16th World Congress in Beijing, Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability and member of...
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Former CIA Director: Build a New Internet to Improve Cybersecurity
The United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks, said Michael Hayden, President George...
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Former CIA Director: Build a New Internet to Improve Cybersecurity
The United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks, said Michael Hayden, President George...
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Kevin Mitnick Shows How Easy It Is to Hack a Phone
British tabloid News of the World said it is closing down over a phone hacking scandal in which workers for the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper allegedly snooped...
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Nasa's Lessons From The Outer Limits
In April 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a space shuttle program meant to take astronauts, cargo, research experiments and military...
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Google+ Contributor and Mac Pioneer Talks with CNET
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...
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Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope For Overcoming Impairments
Scientists are creating a new generation of artificial body parts to help people with disabilities see, walk, swim, grip and run among other things. Miles O'Brien...
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Big Win For the Losers at D-Wave
Does D-Wave's first big sale disprove the quantum computing naysayers?
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Eff and Bitcoin
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as "the first decentralized digital currency...
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Values in Design
Focusing on socio-technical design with values as a critical component in the design process.
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Driving Power in Global Supply Chains
Supply chains are increasingly global. We pour energy into managing them efficiently, with their risks and rewards...
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Seven Questions For IBM Fellow Bernie Meyerson
There aren’t many technology companies around who can claim to be 100 years old. You're probably hearing that a lot as media outlets report on the anniversary...
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Watson's Lead Developer: 'deep Analysis, Speed, and Results'
David Ferrucci’s official title is "IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center." But to the...
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Computer Science Can Use More Science
Software developers should use empirical methods to analyze their designs to predict how working systems will behave.
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Think Before You Fork
Kode Vicious's thoughts on forking, config files, and using internal wikis.
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The Risks of Stopping Too Soon
Good software design is never easy, but stopping too soon makes the job more difficult.
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Practical Application of Theoretical Estimation
One of the most popular and successful approaches to estimating software projects is the Putnam model. Developed in the 1970s by...
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