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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Answers to All the Tech Questions Your Family Will Ask You This Holiday
Maybe it's your mom and/or dad. Maybe it's a sibling or a grandparent. Or maybe it's just that one friend who still uses a Motorola Razr from the early 2000s.
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Charlie Rose Talks to Nathan Myhrvold
You worked for years at Microsoft, where things now look uncertain.
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From MOOCs to SPOCs
Supplementing the classroom experience with small private online courses.
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Bringing Young Women Into Computing Through the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Program
A program to encourage and support girls and women in pursuing their computer science interests.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving...
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Patrick Blackett: Providing 'White Heat' to the British Computing Revolution
Reflections on a Nobel Prize-winning physicist's early contributions to computing.
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Information Technology Impact Sourcing
New ways to contract IT work to base-of-the-pyramid suppliers.
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Drm in Cars Will Drive Consumers Crazy
Forget extra cupholders or power windows: the new Renault Zoe comes with a "feature" that absolutely nobody wants.
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...
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A Stronger 'online Eraser' Law Would Be a Mistake
Excited teenagers—in other words normal teenagers—have never been famous for consistently wise decisions, nor should they be.
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The False Promise of Classroom Technology
The cover story of Life magazine on Oct. 16 was "U.S. Schools: They Face a Crisis."
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Markus 'notch' Persson: The Mind Behind Minecraft
Markus Persson, known also by the online handle "Notch," is an indie game success story like no other.
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How Steve Jobs Made the Ipad Succeed When All Other Tablets Failed
Steve Jobs's solution to Google's Android-everywhere strategy was simple and audacious: he unveiled the iPad.
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Orson Scott Card Talks Ender's Game
In Ender's Game, the Nebula Award-winning 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card, a 6-year-old boy is taken from his family on Earth to an orbital military academy to be...
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Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?
Back in the twentieth century, people were roughly equal in their power to avoid advertising.
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Are Smartphones Turning s Into Bad Samaritans?
In late September, on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, a man shot and killed 20-year-old student Justin Valdez.
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Augmented Reality Browsers: Essential Products or Only Gadgets?
How lessons learned from the evolution of the Web and Web browsers can influence the development of AR browsers.
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