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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Hp: Why Bill And Dave Would Back A Break-p Plan
The time has come to break up Hewlett-Packard into parts. That’s the view of UBS analyst Steve Milunovich, who goes so far as to assert that founders Bill Hewlett...
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How Steve Jobs' Legacy Has Changed
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer in his California home a year ago today, the world rushed to eulogize him in glowing terms: Genius. Visionary...
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Facebook's 1 Billion sers and What They Say About the Future of Computing
After several months as the Internet's punching bag, Facebook finally has something to brag about: 1 billion active users.
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Facebook's 'Next Billion': A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...
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Ietf Approves Hsts as Proposed Standard
One of the things that makes attackers dance around their basement lairs is finding unencrypted Web sessions.
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Ibm's Ginni Rometty Looks Ahead
Ginni Rometty's first customer conference as CEO of IBM was an unusual affair, especially by Big Blue's buttoned-up standards.
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Do Patent and Copyright Law Restrict Competition and Creativity Excessively?
To evaluate optimal patent protection for an invention, one has to consider both the cost of inventing and the cost of copying; the higher the ratio of the former...
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Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...
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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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The Internet? We Built That
Who created the Internet and why should we care? These questions, so often raised during the Bush-Gore election in 2000, have found their way back into the political...
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Interview With Eugene Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky has had an interesting, varied life, with more than his share of adventures, successes and challenges. He's seen and done a lot, but when he learned...
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Why Wi-Fi Is Often So Slow
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...
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Disconnect Between Application Development and Security Getting Wider
There is a widening gulf between application developers and security decision makers inside the enterprise, and it’s starting to cost companies serious money.
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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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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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