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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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Communications' Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event
How AI and science are shaping each other.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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Here's How AI Will Change Chip Design
Artificial intelligence's promise and potential for the semiconductor industry.
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Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
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Yoshua Bengio: 'I Have Rarely Been as Enthusiastic about a New Research Direction'
Yoshua Bengio gushes about GFlowNets, calling them "a new beast" for which the appropriate optimization algorithms are still making rapid progress
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Security: The Lock and the Key to Blockchain's Future
For blockchain technology to fulfill its full potential, the security standard needs to mature
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The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force
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Crypto and Technology for the People
Brown University professor Seny Kamara talks about the intersection between social responsibility and cryptography/technology
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Futures of Digital Governance
Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.
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The Metaverse Will Require Computing Tech No One Knows How to Build
Experts believe building the metaverse will require nearly every kind of chip to be an order of magnitude more powerful than it is today
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Tracing the Evolution of the Computer, from Unusual to Ubiquitous
New book chronicles computer's journey from scientific instrument to general-purpose device
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Why a Safe Metaverse Is a Must
Virtual worlds need strong, enforceable rules to avoid the harassment and stalking common on social media platforms
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The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties
The search for a crypto use case continues
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The Race to Save the Internet from Quantum Hackers
The quantum computer revolution could break encryption, but more-secure algorithms can safeguard privacy
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DeepMind AlphaCode Does Not Compare to Human Programmers
Human programmers are in control but they must learn to harness the power and limits of AI-generated code
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Supercomputing to Save the Planet
Fujitsu CTO Vivek Mahajan says true power of cloud will come with democratizing HPC and quantum computers for the masses
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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