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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Retweets Are Trash
A couple of months ago, I made a small tweak to my Twitter account that has changed my experience of the platform.
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A Framework for Building Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
After decades of promise and hype, artificial intelligence has finally reached a tipping point of market acceptance.
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Has Dopamine Got s Hooked on Tech?
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...
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In S v. Microsoft, a Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good Options
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Microsoft, a case that many observers believe could have significant ramifications for how...
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Supreme Court Skeptical of Microsoft's Ireland E-Mail Privacy Claims
It is not unusual for tech companies to spar with law enforcement over access to customer data. Most cases, however, do not go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Apple's China Lesson: Think Different, But Not Too Different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government's showcase global business forum next month, underscoring his increasingly high profile...
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Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs
I took an Uber to an artificial-intelligence conference at MIT one recent morning, and the driver asked me how long it would take for autonomous vehicles to take...
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Where the 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory Comes From
The term "crisis actor" has been in the news a lot lately, because conspiracy theorists have accused survivors of the Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland...
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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car, to Prove a Point
Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online—an evolution of technology called the ...
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How Trump Conquered Facebook, Without Russian Ads
It's not every day that a former work colleague gets retweeted by the president of the United States.
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Cryptocurrency: The Hail Mary Pass for People Who Missed the Tech Boom
Between mid-December and early February, bitcoin lost more than half its value, dropping from a high of nearly twenty thousand dollars to just below seven thousand...
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Russia's Troll Operation Was Not That Sophisticated
It might be nice for Democrats and #NeverTrumpers to believe that Russia's troll factory brought Donald Trump the 2016 Presidential Election.
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Computational Social Science ≠ Computer Science + Social Data
The important intersection of computer science and social science.
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Responsible Research with Crowds: Pay Crowdworkers at Least Minimum Wage
High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.
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Impediments with Policy Interventions to Foster Cybersecurity
A call for discussion of governmental investment and intervention in support of cybersecurity.
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The Computing Profession
Taking stock of progress toward a computing profession since this column started in 2001.
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Ethics Omission Increases Gases Emission
A look in the rearview mirror at Volkswagon software engineering.
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Will the Supreme Court Nix Reviews of Bad Patents?
Considering the longer-term implications of a soon-to-be-decided U.S. Supreme Court case.
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How to Make Replication the Norm
Replication is essential for building confidence in research studies, yet it is still the exception rather than the rule.
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