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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Google's Little Nemo Tribute: Maybe The Best Google Doodle Ever
Winsor McCay (1869–1934) was one of the first important creators of both comic strips and animation, and a pretty fair political cartoonist to boot.
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Follow a Career Passion? Let It Follow You
In the spring of 2004, during my senior year of college, I faced a hard decision about my future career.
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Apple Needs to Find Its Exit Strategy From China
"IPhone5 Launch Causes Riots" You'd expect to see headlines like this when consumers beat down doors and trample each other, yet these riots were in China, among...
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Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry
In April of 2010, Eric Schmidt delivered the keynote address at the conference of the American Society of News Editors in Washington, D.C. During the talk, thearticulate...
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If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
We already know that design matters. Product design. Industrial design. Experience design. Supply chain design. Witness the renewed fervor for the iPhone 5 today...
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The Tyranny of the Clock
Promoting a clock-free paradigm that fits everything learned about programming since Turing.
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Computing as If Infrastructure Mattered
Understanding the technical and social fundamentals of the computing infrastructure is essential in the continuously evolving technological realm.
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A Nice Piece of Code
Colorful metaphors and properly reusing functions.
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The Foresight Saga, Redux
Short-term thinking is the enemy of the long-term future.
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The Goldilocks Estimate
Balancing two extremes in project estimation.
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Reflecting on the Facebook IPO
Exploring some factors that reflect a company's worth.
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Investing in Our Future; Investing in Research
The future of the American university and of American innovation is in jeopardy, threatened by cuts in government-sponsored research funding, according to Caroline...
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Review: Raspberry Pi
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.
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The Jet Propulsion Lab Is Way Weirder (and Awesomer) Than You Even Imagined
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...
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Death to Powerpoint!
No matter what your line of work, it's only getting harder to avoid death by PowerPoint.
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Todd Akin and the Anti-Science House Science Committee
Aside from the sheer biological ludicrousness of Todd Akin's ideas on female physiology, one unsettling subplot to the debacle is his presence on the House of Committee...
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Q&A: What Women Want
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe talks about increasing the number of women who study computer science.
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Seven Lessons From Bad History
Journalists, historians, and the invention of email.
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Don't Feel Bad If You Can't Predict the Future
Wise experts and powerful machines are no match for chaotic events and human declarations. Beware of their predictions and be humble in your own.
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