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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Digital Intuition
Napoleon had it and so did Charles Darwin. Tennis champion Roger Federer has it in spades. The dictionary defines intuition as knowledge obtained without conscious...
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Is Blockchain the Most Important It Invention of Our Age?
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.
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Go Players React to Computer Defeat
For decades, the ancient game of Go has stood out as the one board game that computers couldn't crack.
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If Killer Robots Arrive, the Terminator Will Be the Least of Our Problems
Autonomous weapons experts sounded the alarm last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, cautioning that unless governments act to limit these...
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A New and Stunning Way to See the Whole Earth
The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit. On August 5, 2015, it peered down at the half of Earth that it can see, a hemisphere...
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Why We'e So Vulnerable
In an age of continuing electronic breaches and rising geopolitical tensions over cyber-espionage, the White House is working on a national cybersecurity strategy...
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Power Wars: How Obama Justified, Expanded Bush-Era Surveillance
Over the winter holidays, I took some well-needed time offline, away from e-mail and social media.
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Having a Conversation About Bulk Surveillance
Considering a controversial subject that extends far beyond the collection of phone metadata.
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Lessons from the Tech Transfer Trenches
Moving from the research realm to real-world business application.
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Code Hoarding
Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs.
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Broadening Access to Computing Education State By State
Influencing computer science education at the state level.
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Privacy Research Directions
What must we learn in order to support privacy requirements as technology advances?
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The Case For Looking to the States, Not the Federal Government, to Protect Your Privacy
A year ago, President Obama stood behind a podium at the Federal Trade Commission and called for legislation that would set a single national standard for when...
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Forget Ai—the Human-Friendly Future of Computing Is Already Here
For many of us, the concept of artificial intelligence conjures up visions of a machine-dominated world, where humans are servants to the devices they created.
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5 Big Changes Coming to Social Media in 2016
It's been a memorable year in social media. 2015 saw the birth of live social streaming, with apps like Periscope and Meerkat winning over early adopters.
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Tech's 'frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life For Foreseeable Future
There's a little parlor game that people in Silicon Valley like to play. Let's call it, Who's Losing?
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The Long and Winding History of Encryption
Never in history have more people had access to advanced encryption in their homes, offices, and pockets.
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Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist
Sarah Parcak can see looting at ancient sites—from space.
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Wikipedia Turns 15
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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