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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Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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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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Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?
Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.
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A Call to Action
Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.
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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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China's 5G Soars over America's
In some U.S. cities, 5G is slower than the old 4G system; Washington must make it a priority
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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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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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Machine-Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
An interview with Percy Liang, associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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I Unplugged What?
The lessons here are broader than just a simple "Don't do that."
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A Brave New World of Mediated Online Discourse
Is artificial intelligence up to the task of managing online discourse in social networks?
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AWS Is Too Big to Fail
Quite simply, AWS is too big and has too many customers for the good of society
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Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
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The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
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The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
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Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
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