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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Professor Leads COVID-19 Test Site Mapping Effort
Big data and artificial intelligence expert Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is spearheading a mapping effort conducted by software engineers and student volunteers from the...
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How Autonomous Shuttles Could Transform the College Experience
Transportation and parking remain an ongoing issue among campuses everywhere.
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Will Online Education Widen Asia's Digital Divide?
Some students may be at a disadvantage as e-learning relies heavily on home environments, experts say.
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The First Modern Pandemic
Bill Gates considers the scientific advances needed to stop COVID-19.
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Tips for Online Teaching: A Q&A With Trey Conatser
Trey Conatser, associate director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky, discusses efforts to expand support...
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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A Vision of K-12 Computer Science Education for 2030
Exploring goals, perspectives, and challenges.
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Computers Do Not Make Art, People Do
The continually evolving relationship between artistic technologies and artists.
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When Technology Goes Awry
On engineers' obligation to tame their creations.
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Big Data Could Undermine the COVID-19 Response
Blind spots in location-tracking data can threaten both public health and human rights.
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Catherine D'Ignazio on Visualizing COVID-19 Data
Catherine D'Ignazio, assistant professor of urban science and planning at MIT, speaks about the current boom in COVID-19 data visualizations, and how data visualizers...
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Contactless Sociability and Hybrid Communities of Place
What will the world be like after the COVID-19 crisis? A contactless sociality solves problems using the digital network and physical proximity.
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Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role
Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive, and done in person...
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When School Is Online, the Digital Divide Grows Greater
Most U.S. schools are closed, with instruction shifting to the Internet. That's a problem for millions of people without reliable broadband, including 20 percent...
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Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus
Many Americans now rely on digital tools to work remotely and stay connected. They shouldn't have to sacrifice their privacy to use them.
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STEM Education Needs a Course Correction
Technical training today should not be solely in the business of making better coders but of making better people who will be able to cultivate the future.
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The Coronavirus Crisis Proves The Internet Should Be A Public Utility
The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has proven conclusively that the Internet should be a public utility.
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How to (Carefully) Use Tech to Contain the Coronavirus
The United States can learn from other countries to track the pandemic while still protecting privacy.
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