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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Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes niverses
Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...
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Who's Behind the Wheel? Nobody.
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.
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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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When Gps Tracking Violates Privacy Rights
For the right to personal privacy to survive in America in this digital age, courts must be meticulous in applying longstanding privacy protections to new technology...
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If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
We already know that design matters. Product design. Industrial design. Experience design. Supply chain design. Witness the renewed fervor for the iPhone 5 today...
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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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Reflecting on the Facebook IPO
Exploring some factors that reflect a company's worth.
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Lessons from an Iranian War Game
Perhaps it was the "fog of simulation." But the scariest aspect of a U.S.-Iran war game staged this week was the way each side miscalculated the other’s responses—and...
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Air Force Video Compares Facebook, Iphone to Atom Bombs
The world of tomorrow is going to be a dark and sinister place, according to a group of Air Force futurists. One reason why it'll be so scary: Facebook.
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The Iphone 5's A6 Chip Could Be Apple's Sweetest Revenge Against Samsung
Four years ago, Apple set out on a dangerous path. It spent about $300 million on a struggling chip designer called PA Semi. The purchase signaled that Apple intended...
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5 Ideas to Help Everyone Make the Most of Big Data
Big data is going mainstream, but there are still plenty of lessons to be learned from Silicon Valley data scientists whose businesses depend on data to survive...
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Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering
Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...
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Iphone 6: 9 Most-Wanted Features
The iPhone 5 is here and millions of people will buy it and love it. But its arrival also starts the clock ticking on the next iPhone.
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