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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Trump's Populism Is Only the Beginning. Here Come the Robots.
Donald Trump's win is a wake-up call that voters are angry with a system that's made middle-class jobs tougher to come by, and increased inequality.
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Trump's Immigration Crackdown Could Spark a Tech Brain Drain
Clément Garnier doesn't know how much time he has left.
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Facebook Fake News Row: Mark Zuckerberg Is a Politician Now
I've long suspected that Mark Zuckerberg, who often refers to himself as the "leader" of Facebook, has dreams of high office.
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Manufacturing Jobs Aren't Coming Back
Pundits will debate the wellsprings of Donald Trump's election triumph for years.
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Trump's Plans to Shake p the Tech World
Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...
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Richard Dawkins and Other Prominent Scientists React to Trump's Win
This week the U.S. elected businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump as its 45th president. As Scientific American has reported in the run-up to the election...
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Silicon Valley Reels After Trump's Election
Silicon Valley's luminaries woke up Wednesday morning to a darkened new global order, one that the ceaseless optimism of their tech-powered visions seemed suddenly...
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What the Trump Win Means For Tech, Science, and Beyond
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump will now become the 45th president, succeeding President Barack Obama.
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Good Data Are Not Enough
This summer, I visited the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
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We Went to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Here's What We're Bringing Back
Members of The New York Times Developers recently made their first group trip to the Grace Hopper Celebration. At 15,000 attendees, GHC is the world's largest gathering...
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Technology and Academic Lives
Considering the need to create new modes of interaction and approaches to assessment given a rapidly evolving academic realm.
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Time to Reinspect the Foundations?
Questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations.
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Growing Computer Science Education Into a STEM Education Discipline
Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.
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Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google
Two software giants continue with legal sparring after an initial judicial decision.
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Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List For You
Ask not what the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government.
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Maths Becomes Biology's Magic Number
"If you want a career in medicine these days you're better off studying mathematics or computing than biology."
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Why Big Pharma Wants to Collect 2 Million Genomes
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...
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Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.
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