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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The Business of Software: The Ontology of Paper
The next generation of software engineering will involve designing systems without using paper-based formats, instead using software to develop software.
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Ground Control to Architect Tom . . .
Architecture astronauts habitually speak at extremely high levels of abstraction to avoid engaging in tangible discussions that might lead to disclosing that they...
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Law and Technology: The End of the Generative Internet
Exploring the expectations and implications for version 2.0 of the Net's new gated communities.
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Communications Preps Web-Enhanced Articles
The soon to launch Communications Web site will break the bounds of the printed monthly.
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True Seeds of Open-Source Software
Though I appreciated Martin Campbell-Kelly's "Viewpoint" "Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?" (Oct. 2008), we must still rectify a small piece of history...
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How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.
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Kode Vicious: Permanence and Change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.
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On the 10th Anniversary of ACM's Digital Library
When ACM launched its pioneering Digital Library a decade ago, it was one of the first professional societies to offer its members—and the broader computing community—a...
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Legally Speaking: Quantafying the Value of Patent Exhaustion
Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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Historical Reflections: Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?
Tracing the course of influential computing developments and considering possible paths to new paradigms.
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Q&A: A Complex Thinker
Daphne Koller discusses probabilistic relational modeling, artificial intelligence, and her new work with biologists.
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