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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What Is Facebook?
It's a question that's bedeviled the company's own executives for years
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Politics Will Be Poorer Without Angela Merkel's Scientific Approach
The departing German chancellor's support for science and rigour in policymaking has proved transformative—except on climate change.
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Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
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Donald Knuth: The Father of Algorithm Analysis
Turing Award winner talks programming, algorithms, the meaning of life, and more
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Machine Learning Won't Solve Natural Language Understanding
Data-driven approaches to NLU are psychologically, cognitively, and computationally implausible.
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The Third Revolution in Warfare
First there was gunpowder. Then nuclear weapons. Next: artificially intelligent weapons.
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Talking Secure Coding
Security expert discusses the importance of secure coding, how to improve adoption, best practices, and more
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The World Is Running Out of Microchips—Here's the Solution
Microchips are produced by a few large companies; an open-source design approach could end their dominance
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Battery Pioneer Akira Yoshino Talks Tesla, Apple, and the Electric Future
2019 Nobel Prize winner discusses the prospect of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles and autonomous electric vehicles that charge themselves
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How Open Source Software Shapes AI Policy
And why it is largely absent from policy discussions on artificial intelligence
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Did DeepMind Just Take a Big Step Toward More Human-Like AI?
DeepMind researchers have created software agents that navigate a three-dimensional game world called XLand, where the agents learn from experience, by trial and...
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The Global Research Community Must Not Abandon Afghanistan
Vulnerable Afghan researchers need the international research community’s support
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Here's Why Tech Companies Are Suddenly Focused on Child Safety
Tech colossi are responding to shifting political winds and trying to preempt new, impending regulations
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Can We Handle the Truth about Cybersecurity?
Standardizing disclosure rules while ensuring transparency can strengthen our total cybersecurity landscape
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There's a Better Way to Stop Ransomware Attacks
Adopt and enforce regulations for the cryptocurrency industry that are equivalent to traditional banking
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Governments and Businesses Must Unite to Combat Ransomware Threat
Cybersecurity expert says nations must stop sheltering bad actors in order to thwart threats and attacks
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No More Mr. Nice Robot?
Humans might want—and need—robots to be jerks, at least sometimes.
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Tesla's Dojo Is Impressive, but It Won't Transform Supercomputing
Dojo's reported performance numbers and niche application place it outside the ranks of true supercomputers
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Why Common Sense Is Hard for Computers
Recent efforts have recognized machine common sense as a moonshot AI problem of our times
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