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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The Long Quest For -Universal Information Access
Digital object repositories are on the cusp of resolving the long-standing problem of universal information access in the Internet.
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What You Should Include in an Agreement with a Cloud Provider
Cloud computing is a lot like the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Just 9.3% of companies say they'll be using platform or...
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Sensor Networks For the Sciences
Lessons from the field derived from developing wireless sensor networks for monitoring active and hazardous volcanoes.
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K-12 Computational Learning
Enhancing student learning and understanding by combining theories of learning with the computer's unique attributes.
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The Divergent Online News Preferences of Journalists and Readers
Reading between the lines of the thematic gap between the supply and demand of online news.
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Version Aversion
The way you number your releases communicates more than you might think.
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Platforms and Services: Understanding the Resurgence of Apple
Combining new consumer devices and Internet platforms with online services and content is proving to be a successful strategy.
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Victorian Data Processing
The Victorian world was awash with data and with organizations that processed it; and they usually used nothing...
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Future Internet Architecture: Clean-Slate Versus Evolutionary Research
Should researchers focus on designing new network architectures or improving the current Internet?
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Data Mining Is Shaping Our World. Are We Ready For It?
Each day we exchange a mess of content through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion boards and other online forums. How are companies and other organizations using...
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Data Mining Is Shaping Our World. Are We Ready For It?
Each day we exchange a mess of content through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, discussion boards and other online forums. How are companies and other organizations using...
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Technology Lessons from the Wikileaks Saga
There's already debate about whether Wikileaks's release of 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan was more of a milestone in the annals of national...
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Preparing Computer Science Students For the Robotics Revolution
Robotics will inspire dramatic changes in the CS curriculum.
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Is the Internet a Maturing Market?
Two concerns dominate the current debates over U.S. Internet policy: the relatively low level of U.S. broadband...
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Enlist It Tools
Throwing more teams of specialists at intelligence gaps that allowed terror suspects to slip through the net will not solve the problem, write Rensselaer Polytechnic...
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Is Computer Science Truly Scientific?
Reflections on the (experimental) scientific method in computer science.
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Outsourcing Versus Shared Services
Choosing between outsourcing and shared services has significant implications for long-term corporate strategy.
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Virtual Privacy
Northeastern University professor Alan Mislove, whose research focuses on how people interact in the virtual world, says that many patterns of human interaction...
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