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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Bipartisan Alliance Beats Back Patriot Act Sneak Attack in House Vote
Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, an unlikely alliance of House Democrats and Republicans stood up for civil liberties and successfully beat back...
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Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Linked
Our Father, who art in pixels, linked be Thy name, Thy Web site come, Thy Net be done, on Explorer as it is on Firefox.
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Mind vs. Machine
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial...
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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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Bing Is Copying Your Clicks, Not Google's Results
Google's results can be accessed because Bing is snooping on IE users.
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How Watson Works: A Conversation With Eric Brown, IBM Research Manager
IBM's deep Question Answering system, codenamed Watson, will compete against humans in Jeopardy! tournaments in February. IBM's Eric Brown says that Jeopardy!...
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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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Forest For the Trees
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most...
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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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