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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A Sterling Future for HPC
For the past decade, keynote speakers at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) have examined the major accomplishments in HPC during the preceding year...
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Letter 'to a Future Woman in Tech' Hopes For Long Ladies' Room Lines at Conferences
Stacey Mulcahy, who is currently a lead developer at the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, has been in the tech industry since 2001.
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Cobol Will Outlive S All
In the early 1980s, I was told that COBOL was going away and that I should quickly move toward other programming languages.
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Bill Gates on Reddit: Thoughts on Steve Jobs, Windows, and the Next Disruption
Bill Gates held court on Reddit on Monday, becoming just the latest notable figure to submit to the site's open question-and-answer sessions.
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Texas School Board Searching For "another Side" to Theory of Evolution
We recently reviewed the documentary The Revisionaries, which chronicles the actions of the Texas state school board as it attempted to rewrite the science and...
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The Natural Experimenter
Josh Angrist is an acclaimed experimentalist who does not work in a lab.
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The Explosive Growth of Postdocs in Computer Science
Considering the factors influencing the recent rapid increase in the number of postdoctoral positions in computer science.
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Cloud Services Certification
How to address the lack of transparency, trust, and acceptance in cloud services.
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The Value of Microprocessor Designs
Applying a centuries-old technique to modern cost estimation.
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Reflections on Stanford's MOOCs
New possibilities in online education create new challenges.
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More Sight on Foresight
My previous column, "The Foresight Saga, Redux," began a discussion that is continued here regarding some lessons learned from the 2012 U.S. November elections. In...
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The Tangled Web We Have Woven
Seeking to protect the fundamental privacy of network interactions.
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What Makes a Mind? Kurzweil and Google May Be Surprised
After writing about Ray Kurzweil’s ambitious plan to create a super-intelligent personal assistant in his new job at Google (see "Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a...
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The Trouble With Tinkering Time
It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock.
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Many Hands Make Fractals Tactile
Human beings are born with an innate capacity to learn languages. Yet while mathematics is the language of pattern and form, many people struggle to acquire even...
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Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress
There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...
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President Reif Writes to Mit Community Regarding Aaron Swartz
Yesterday we received the shocking and terrible news that on Friday in New York, Aaron Swartz, a gifted young man well known and admired by many in the MIT community...
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Aaron Swartz and Me, Over a Loosely Intertwined Decade
I don't remember the first time I heard about Aaron Swartz. It probably was from reading Dave Winer's blog more than 10 years ago when I was an undergraduate at...
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