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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World Web War I: Why Egypt's Digital prising Is Different
We've seen cyberwar declared before, but the one playing out in Egypt is my own candidate for World Web War I.
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Susan Wojcicki: The Most Important Googler You've Never Heard Of
Yes, Google started in Susan Wojcicki's rented garage. But in her mind, that might be the single least important fact about her long and deep relationship with...
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Keep Assange Free, Keep Internet Free
It is time for the United States to drop the case against WikiLeaks. Pressing forward with efforts to prosecute an Internet publisher at home while standing up...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...
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Space Stasis
What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
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Was Egypt Oversold as Top Offshoring Spot?
Before Egypt turned off the Internet, the country had received increasingly high marks from leading analysis firms as a promising offshore outsourcing destination...
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Beware the Cyber War Boomerang?
Stuxnet, most sophisticated cyber weapon ever developed, could turn on vulnerable U.S. infrastructure.
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The Purpose of Science Fiction
How it teaches governments—and citizens—how to understand the future of technology.
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The Need For a New Graduation Rite of Passage
A new organization is being proposed that is solely intended to promote and recognize the ethical and moral behavior in graduates of computing-related degree programs...
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25 Years of Digital Vandalism
In January 1986, Basit and Amjad Alvi, sibling programmers living near the main train station in Lahore, Pakistan, wrote a piece of code to safeguard the latest...
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Technology, Conferences, and Community
Considering the impact and implications of changes in scholarly communication.
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From Science to Engineering
A series of recent reports claim the U.S. education system is in a very severe crisis; others suggest the crisis is...
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The Growing Harm of Not Teaching Malware
Revisiting the need to educate professionals to defend against malware in its various guises.
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Household Demand For Broadband Internet Service
How much are consumers willing to pay for broadband service? Our research estimates consumer willingness-to-pay...
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Against Cyberterrorism
Cyberterrorism is a concept that appears recurrently in contemporary media. This coverage is particularly interesting...
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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....
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Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?
This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes ofreported...
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Gayatri Buragohain on Women and Technology in India
Gayatri Buragohain, India’s ACM-W Ambassador, is an outspoken advocate for young women in India who are interested in technical careers but face an opportunity...
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