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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Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights from Cell Images
Computational biologist brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images
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Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
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Nicki Washington: How Tackling Tech's Diversity Challenges Can Spur Innovation
Computer scientist and educator says technology's diversity problems begin in learning and working environments
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Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
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Who Is Writing Our Digital Future, and Why It Matters?
The world is not built for everybody—we must make sure every voice is heard and every body seen
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Computer Science Education Is a Global Challenge
Analysis in the Brookings report shows a correlation between a country's economic position and implementation of computer science in schools.
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Avoiding AI's Bad Reputation
AI-based advertising models 'give tech a bad name,' says Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost
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What's Missing from the Push to Diversify Tech?
Focusing on hiring pipelines or career pathways alone won't solve tech's diversity and inclusion problems.
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Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
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Wall Street Doesn't Care about the Facebook Leaks, but Mark Zuckerberg Does
Facebook's numbers are doing fine for now, but not its reputation
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How to Expand and Improve CS Education Around the World
Six recommendations to take CS education to scale at primary and secondary school levels
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.
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Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental...
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Explicative Programming
Making Computational Thinking relevant to schools.
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Privacy Engineering Superheroes
Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.
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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
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Programming Hate into AI Will Be Controversial, but Possibly Necessary
For a created consciousness to make value judgments, both liking and disliking functions must be part of the system.
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