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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How We Got Our Start In The Tech Industry
Six black women discuss how they got started in tech, provide advice to other black women looking to start in the industry, and suggest what tech companies can...
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How to Know if Artificial Intelligence is About to Destroy Civilization
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
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Four Internets
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
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Through the Lens of a Passionate Theoretician
Considering the far-reaching and fundamental implications of computing beyond digital computers.
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Computing and Community in Formal Education
Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities. ...
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Challenging the Myth of the 10x Programmer
A pervasive belief in software engineering is that some programmers are much better than others, and that their skills, abilities, and talents exert an outsized...
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Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide —...
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
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Are We Losing Momentum?
Estimating when the second half of the world will come online.
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Shaking Up the Diversity Pipeline
Jordan Pedraza of Handshake discusses how the company is democratizing access to career opportunities for college students of color.
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A* Search: What's in a Name?
A search for algorithmic answers returns unique results.
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Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
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Von Neumann Thought Turing's Universal Machine was 'Simple and Neat.': But That Didn't Tell Him How to Design a Computer
New discoveries answer an old question.
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Public Entrepreneurship and Policy Engineering
Training the next generation of leader and problem solver.
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Uncertainty
Considering how to best navigate stability and randomness.
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Should Researchers Use Data from Security Breaches?
Evaluating the arguments for and against using digital data derived from security breaches.
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Removing the Risk of AI Bias in the Public Sector
What practical steps can be taken to drive ethical, unbiased AI use in the public sector?
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Is the Computer Science Degree Dead?
Recent trends point to a decline in traditional education due to changing views and alternative education opportunities.
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