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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Software Studies, Rethinking Computing For Development in Africa
The field of computer science builds on Western industry, military and government interests. Modern day computing has almost wholly emerged out of a western context...
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The Grill: Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks, who was project manager for the IBM System/360 and the lead designer of its operating system, says that software developers should plan on continuously...
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Scaling the Exa
The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra says the transition to exascale computing is going to be more dramatic than earlier transitions, and this will result...
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An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Edward A. Feigenbaum, a pioneer in the field of expert systems, reflects on his career.
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Plotting Away
Dear KV, I've been working with some code that generates massive data sets, and . . . I'm finding that more and more often I...
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Myths and Fallacies of 'Personally Identifiable Information'
Developing effective privacy protection technologies is a critical challenge for security and privacy research as the amount and variety of data collected about...
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Gary Mcgraw on Developing Secure Software
Cigital CTO Gary McGraw and colleagues examined 30 companies' secure software development practices to create a measurement instrument that companies could use...
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Html: Still Not All It's Cracked p to Be
The headaches of Web application development are being compounded by the ever-proliferating morass of Web standards, frameworks, and tools.
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Apple: The Microsoft of Mobile?
Apple could soon be the target of an antitrust investigation by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice, according to numerous press reports...
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Rest in Peas: The nrecognized Death of Speech Recognition
The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy...
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Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting...
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Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model
Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model.
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Marc Maiffret: The Quick Rise of a Teen Hacker
For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when—at the age of 17—he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout...
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Marc Maiffret: The Quick Rise of a Teen Hacker
For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when—at the age of 17—he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout...
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Get Prepared For the Html5 Revolution
HTML5 promises to revolutionize the way you build Web sites. Check out what fantastic new features are in store in the forthcoming Web standard.
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Q&A: Systematic Thinking
Andrew S. Tanenbaum talks about MINIX, microkernels, and electronic voting systems.
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The Data-Structure Canon
Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.
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Cloud Computing and SaaS as New Computing Platforms
To become an industry platform, vendors must open their infrastructure technology to other product companies.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Reflections on the decline of mathematical tables.
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