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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Private Then Shared?
Designing for the mobile phone to shared PC pipeline.
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Fostering Computational Literacy in Science Classrooms
An agent-based approach to integrating computing in secondary-school science courses.
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Can You Engineer Privacy?
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.
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Defending the Grand Vision of the Human Brain Project
"A grass roots effort is under way to stop the project... 'Mediocre science, terrible science policy,' begins the spirited letter…"
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Nsa Implementing Fix to Prevent Snowden-Like Security Breach
A year after Edward Snowden's digital heist, the NSA's chief technology officer says steps have been taken to stop future incidents. But he says there's no way...
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The Trouble With Brain Science
Are we ever going to figure out how the brain works?
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How Not to Build a Brain
Building a brain sounds like a worthy goal, one that makes it seem as though the future is within reach.
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Billy Beane on the Future of Sports: A Tech-Driven Revolution
Baseball—my passion and profession for three decades—has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports.
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Arm Tries to Spread Its Chips to Forests, Felds, and Factories
Forest fire on the way? Building stress getting too high? Farmland too moist?
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Studying Your sers: Facebook's Greatest Hits
Facebook's massive psychological experiment involving almost 700,000 unwitting users has attracted plenty of attention and outrage, but it's far from the only time...
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New N.s.a. Chief Calls Damage From Snowden Leaks Manageable
The newly installed director of the National Security Agency says that while he has seen some terrorist groups alter their communications to avoid surveillance...
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Ray Kurzweil Says He's Breathing Intelligence Into Google Search
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...
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Larry Page on Google's Many Arms
One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.
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Licensing Professional Software Engineers: Seize the Opportunity
Professional organizations should be in the forefront of the ongoing discussion about licensing professional software engineers.
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Structural Challenges and the Need to Adapt
Broadening the conversation about scholars and scholarship in computing and information research.
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That Classroom 'Magic'
Effective teaching practices for broadening participation in computer science.
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The Business of the State
Considering the opportunities and challenges for commercial firms involved with government business process outsourcing.
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