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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Unbalanced Data Leads to Obsolete Economic Advice
Few computer scientists and technological workers worry about their role in the economies of their industries and their countries. Background supplementary material...
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Where Code Comes From: Architectures of Automatic Control from Babbage to Algol
Considering the evolving concept of programming.
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Extrapolating from Moore's Law
Behind and beyond Microsoft, Intel, and Apple.
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Biometric Identity
Assessing the promises and dangers of biometric identity plans.
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The Death of American Research and Development
When rumors began to fly about a merger between chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont , it was obvious the deal was not your ordinary fee-driven scheme dreamed...
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Grandfather of Vr: The Virtual Can Show the Beauty of the Real
Thomas Furness is known as the pioneer who stood at the inception of what we know today as virtual reality.
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Can This Man Make AI More Human?
Like any proud father, Gary Marcus is only too happy to talk about the latest achievements of his two-year-old son.
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A Conversation with Crispr-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna
At the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in October, CRISPR-Cas9 inventors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier accepted the Gruber Genetics Prize...
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Huge MIT Media Lab Inventions That Transformed Our World
For the last 30 years, the MIT Lab has been a breeding ground for technological progress that’s pushed the world into the future.
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Creating a New Generation of Computational Thinkers
Experiences with a successful school program in Scotland.
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The Case For Banning Killer Robots: Point
Ban the bots? Considering both sides of the argument for and against.
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I Can't Let You Do That, Dave
Computers should not treat their owners as adversaries.
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Increasing the Participation of Individuals with Disabilities in Computing
Lessons learned from a decade of practice.
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Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Analysis in Teaching Ethics
Critical reflection on value choices.
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Why Our Theories of Innovation Fail Us
Until we moderate our fascination with creating ideas, we will not achieve the rate of innovations we seek.
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Artificial Intelligence: 'homo Sapiens Will Be Split Into a Handful of Gods and the Rest of s'
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill which...
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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