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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Q&A: Ravi Venkatesan
Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India, discusses the role technology can play in the new Indian administration and Microsoft's efforts to accelerate the...
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Confessions of a Science Librarian
I'm curious about all this and I wonder if any of the computing people out there share Moshe Yardi's ambivalence in Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research...
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On Vardi's Question on Conferences
As picked up by Lance, Moshe Vardi uses his Editor's Letter in the May CACM to start up a debate on the future of conferences in CS. While I agree with the view...
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Are Conferences Worth Fixing?
Moshe Vardi uses his Editor's Letter in the May CACM to start up a debate on the future of conferences in CS. He mentions last year's Workshop on Organizing Workshops...
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Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
Increasingly, machines make things, not people. That's mainly because of technology. When we think of manufacturing jobs, we tend to imagine old-time assembly lines...
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Dawn M. Taylor on Brain-Computer Interfaces
Brain-computer interface research is finally starting to take off because the expansion of computer capacity has broadened people's ability to digitize and process...
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Internet Scientist Says, You Can't Hack Data From Militaries. Then Who Did and How?
An acclaimed Internet scientist in China has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military or government...
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'it Will Step in on My Day Off'
In this interview, Electronic Arts senior vice-president online Nanea Reeves shares some of her predictions about the future. Reeves says that video games will...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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An Interview with Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg tallied a long list of awards and achievements before being named recipient of the 2008 ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computer Sciences at...
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Is China's 'secure' Os a Threat to .s Offensive Cyber Capabilities?
China's development of the Kylin hardened operating system undermines U.S. offensive cyber warfare capabilities, Kevin G. Coleman of Technolytics Institute told...
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25 Major Scientific Achievements of the 1950s: Can We Top Them?
The new Science race is on — just like the 1950s — but this time, the prize is not to conquer space, but to conquer pollution, carbon emissions, drought and the...
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Deficits Worry Intel Chairman Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett joined Intel Corp. as a technology-development manager in 1974, and rose through the ranks to become chief executive officer in 1998. In 2005, he...
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Deficits Worry Intel Chairman Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett joined Intel Corp. as a technology-development manager in 1974, and rose through the ranks to become chief executive officer in 1998. In 2005, he...
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The Downside of Friends: Facebook's Hacking Problem
Scammers unleashed a new attack on Facebook last week, collecting users' log-in information and passwords and pilfering victims' "friends" lists to target the next...
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Film About Kurzweil Gets Two Nano-Enhanced Cyberthumbs p
I can't really give an objective review of Barry Ptolemy's new documentary film "Transcendent Man" — a treatment of the life and futurist ideas of Ray Kurzweil...
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Six Networking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Despite understanding that networking can be a valuable skill for managers and leaders, many mid-career professionals have not fully developed their networking...
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How to Recruit Students For Government Service
According to a project completed by second-year master's students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, government needs to be doing a better job of recruiting...
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Gregg Favalora Talks About 3-D Imaging Breakthroughs
Gregg Favalora, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Actuality Medical Inc., discusses 'crystal ball' 3-D imaging, breakthrough...
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