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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Programming Goes Back to School
Broadening participation by integrating game design into middle school curricula. View a video featuring author Alexander Repenning about using games to introduce...
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Digitization and Copyright: Some Recent Evidence from Music
Examining the effects of stealing on producers and consumers.
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The Future of the Past
Reflections on the changing face of the history of computing.
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Design For Symbiosis
Promoting more harmonious paths for technological innovators and expressive creators in the Internet age.
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Is Human Mobility Tracking a Good Idea?
Considering the trade-offs associated with human mobility tracking.
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Improving Gender Composition in Computing
Combining academic and industry representation, the NCWIT Pacesetters program works to increase the participation of girls and women in computing.
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Information Technology and Gross National Happiness
Connecting digital technologies and happiness.
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Can Services and Platform Thinking Help the U.S. Postal Service?
How the U.S. Postal Service might improve the efficiency of its delivery platform.
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The Technology of a Better Footnote
Footnotes—or endnotes, or just notes; whatever you want to call them—are a problem. They're a problem for writers and a problem for readers and a problem for typesetters...
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Supercomputers Can Save .s. Manufacturing
High-performance computing developed at the national labs powers much of the innovation behind the most successful U.S. commercial firms. This expertise may also...
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COLT/ICML Open Problems and ICML Instructions
Open problems will be presented in a joint session in the evening of the COLT/ICML overlap day. If you have a difficult, theoretically definable problem in machine...
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Q&A: Chief Strategiest
ACM CEO John White talks about initiatives to serve the organization's professional members, increase international activities, and reform computer science education...
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The Artificiality of Natural User Interfaces
Toward user-defined gestural interfaces.
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Training Users vs. Training Soldiers: Experiences from the Battlefield
How military training methods can be applied to more effectively teach computer users.
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The Idea Idea
What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?
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Do Software Copyrights Protect What Programs Do?
A case before the European Court of Justice has significant implications for innovation and competition in the software industry.
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War 2.0: Cyberweapons and Ethics
Considering the basic ethical questions that must be resolved in the new realm of cyberwarfare.
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What Have We Learned About Software Engineering?
Upon closer examination, everything old appears to be new again in the realm of software engineering.
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