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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Preparing Tomorrow's Faculty to Address Challenges in Teaching Computer Science
Using a "boot camp" workshop for new faculty orientation.
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President Trump's New Order Gives China Tech Opportunity To 'hire American' Too
The same week that President Trump issued his hire American executive order, the president of one of China's top tech companies said his company wants to do the...
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Track How Technology Is Transforming Work
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...
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Microsoft: AI Isn't Yet Adaptable Enough to Help Businesses
The AI revolution may take longer than some expect to spread from Silicon Valley into other industries.
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What to Expect Now That Internet Providers Can Collect and Sell Your Web Browser History
After Congress handed President Trump legislation Tuesday that would wipe away landmark privacy protections for Internet users, we received a lot of reader questions...
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How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers
On Tuesday afternoon, while most people were focused on the latest news from the House Intelligence Committee, the House quietly voted to undo rules that keep internet...
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What It Means to Be an Entrepreneur Today
In his keynote address before the fifth edition of the Tech Open Air conference in Berlin in 2016, Kickstarter's cofounder and CEO Yancey Strickler suggests the...
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Wanted: Toolsmiths
Seeking to use software, hardware, and algorithmic ingenuity to create unique domain-independent instruments.
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The Chess Player Who Couldn't Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
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Online Social Networks and Global Women's Empowerment
Mediating social change or reinforcing male hegemony?
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The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here
Andrew Ng helped create two of Silicon Valley's leading artificial intelligence labs.
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Africa Needs More Women Computer Scientists: How To Make It Happen
Computer science is an especially male-dominated university course all over the world. I have some ideas about how to throw open more doors for women computer scientists...
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The Wisdom of Nokia's Dumbphone
They weighed heavy in pockets and jackets and bags, for they were thick and bulky, not lithe and narrow.
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Crispr Pioneer Muses About Long Journey from China to Pinnacle of American Science
Feng Zhang occupies a corner office on the 10th floor of the gleaming, modern biotechnology palace called the Broad Institute.
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No, Robots Aren't Killing the American Dream
Defenders of globalization are on solid ground when they criticize President Trump's threats of punitive tariffs and border walls.
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Where Review Goes Wrong
Examining professional misconduct among academic publication examiners.
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Supreme Court on Design Patent Damages in Samsung v. Apple
Considering influences leading to the recent U.S Supreme Court decision in a years-long case that Apple filed against Samsung over iPhone design infringement.
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The Former Secretary of Defense Outlines the Future of Warfare
To an engineer in Silicon Valley, the Defense Department can look a little old, a little slow, and a little fat.
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Who Will Be Hurt – and Helped – If .s. Tech Industry Can't Hire the World's Best Talent?
The H-1B visa program is a major contributor to U.S. economic growth but is quite bad for domestic computer scientists, according to recently published research...
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