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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Intel's Andy Grove on Manufacturing in America
Among the scores of fabless chip companies and product design houses in Silicon Valley, Intel is a standout. It's an American high-tech company that not only...
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Will Netflix Destroy the Internet?
American broadband capacity might not be able to keep up with everyone who wants to stream movies.
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Is China a Supercomputer Threat? (Q&A)
With China expected to officially take the supercomputer performance crown next month, I asked an expert about the state of supercomputing in the U.S. and whether...
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Is China a Supercomputer Threat? (Q&A)
With China expected to officially take the supercomputer performance crown next month, I asked an expert about the state of supercomputing in the U.S. and whether...
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Google Is Polluting the Internet
The danger of allowing an advertising company to control the index of human knowledge is too obvious to ignore.
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In Support of Computer Science Teachers and the CSTA
If we want more computer science students, and if we want computer scientists to be understood for what we are, we must clarify the message about computer science...
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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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Why Isn't Cyberspace More Secure?
Evaluating governmental actions—and inactions—toward improving cyber security and addressing future challenges.
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Why Do Software Startups Patent (or Not)?
Assessing the controversial results of a recent empirical study of the role of intellectual property in software startups.
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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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efa President Platini Opposed to Goal-Line Technology
Uefa president Michel Platini believes goal-line technology would lead to "Playstation football."
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Cybersecurity as a Catalyst For Economic Growth
Patrick Gorman, former associate director of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, says the United States should apply the lessons of the space...
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What We're Driving At
Larry and Sergey founded Google because they wanted to help solve really big problems using technology. And one of the big problems we’re working on today is...
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William Gibson Says the Future Is Right Here, Right Now
"In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was actually about three or four years long," he said, "because in three or four years relatively little...
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Why Telecom Regulation Needs to Change
Research suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.
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Don't Stick It In: The Dangers of sb Drives
Talking to a computer security researcher about Stuxnet is like asking an art critic to describe the finer points of the Mona Lisa. The world's top cybersecurity...
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What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness
The saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation’s mythology: he’s the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship...
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If We Aren't Ready For Cyberwar, We Will Lose the Next War
In an increasingly digital world, ironically, there may yet be a silver lining to the primitive nature of India's infrastructure: that it is not computer-controlled...
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