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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Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
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Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Cyber Efficiency and Cyber Resilience
Complementary objectives competing for the same resources.
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Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.
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Contracting for Artificial Intelligence
Considering the promises and perils of contracting for the use of artificial intelligence tools and data.
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Metrics for Success: Why and How to Evaluate Privacy Choice Usability
Assessing the usability of choice and consent mechanisms.
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A Map for Innovation
Innovation is less elusive with the right navigational map.
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The Premature Obituary of Programming
Why deep learning will not replace programming.
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Building Machine Learning Models Like Open Source Software
Proposing a community-based system for model development.
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Software Engineering of Machine Learning Systems
Seeking to make machine learning more dependable.
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Ethical AI is Not about AI
The equation Ethics + AI = Ethical AI is questionable.
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The Elephant in the Room
It is time to get the POSIX elephant off our necks.
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The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem
Attempting to balance sometimes-conflicting interests.
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The End of Programming
The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.
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Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats?
Considering the conundrum of software updates.
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