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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Your Response to AWS Going Down Shouldn't Be Multicloud
It's convenient but wrong to assume multicloud will solve your application resilience woes
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How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
John Martinis, former chief architect of Google Sycamore, offers a measured perspective on quantum's progress
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An AWS Inconvenience
The company's recent outage took down Adele, Netflix, Tinder, and more, but it could've been worse
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Be Wary of Trusting Algorithms in Volatile Markets
IT leaders can prevent disaster by understanding and articulating the risks of relying on increasingly complex algorithms
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A Fix-It Job for Government Tech
To build trust in the government, it would help if the website worked
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What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
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Accelerator-Level Parallelism
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software...
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The Chip That Could Transform Computing
Apple's new M1 processors are generating loads of power...and excitement
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.
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Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental...
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Privacy Engineering Superheroes
Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.
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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
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Which Crypto Platform Will Rule Them All?
Can Ethereum remain the crypto platform of choice for developers?
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Supersized AIs: Are Truly Intelligent Machines Just a Matter of Scale?
Gigantic neural networks that write with remarkable fluency have led to suggestions that scaling up will usher in ultimately true machine intelligence
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It's Time to Stop Paying for a VPN
Many services meant to protect your Web browsing can no longer be trusted
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