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 Donald Trump Will Dismantle Obama's Internet Legacy
President-elect Donald Trump could eviscerate some of the most significant tech policies of the 21st century, all but erasing President Obama's Internet agenda...
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What We've Learned About the Media Industry During This Election
When the 2016 campaign began, legacy news organizations already faced dim industry projections.
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Technology and Academic Lives
Considering the need to create new modes of interaction and approaches to assessment given a rapidly evolving academic realm.
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Time to Reinspect the Foundations?
Questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations.
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Growing Computer Science Education Into a STEM Education Discipline
Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.
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Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google
Two software giants continue with legal sparring after an initial judicial decision.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Long March to China
For U.S. Internet businesses, China is the land of moral defeat.
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Inside Microsoft's Quest For a Topological Quantum Computer
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...
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Incessant Consumer Surveillance Is Leaking Into Physical Stores
You just wanted to shop for a birthday gift in peace—instead, you got ads that follow you around the internet, and coupons in your email that remember exactly which...
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Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List For You
Ask not what the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government.
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Where Do All the Old Programmers Go?
In a recent editorial, Norman Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis, describes software engineering as a career dead end...
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George Orwell Never Dreamed of Advertising as Invasive as Yahoo's Proposal
Yahoo wants to take advertising to the next level—that is, the Orwellian level—bombarding people in public places with targeted advertising served up by the surveillance...
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Obama's Concerned an AI Could Hack America's Nukes
During his eight years in office, President Barack Obama has seen hackers grow into a threat no president has faced before.
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Google Is Listening
You know the cliché that if you're not paying for the product, you are the product?
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Why Big Pharma Wants to Collect 2 Million Genomes
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...
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Y2k 2.0: Is the .s. Government Set to 'give Away the Internet' Saturday?
Remember the projected Y2K bug disaster? The world's computers would supposedly go haywire as the clock ticked to January 1, 2000, thus destroying the world and...
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Universities and Computer Science in the European Crisis of Refugees
Considering the role of universities in promoting tolerance as well as education.
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Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
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