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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My Nightmare Trip into the Metaverse
A reporter dons a VR headset, heads into the metaverse, and witnesses the most disturbing sights of her life.
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Information: 'I' vs. 'We' vs. 'They'
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
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The Future of AI in Games
Making artificial intelligence a tool of freedom and creativity for everyone.
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We Need a 911 for the Metaverse
Citizens of the metaverse deserve an industrywide standard for reporting abuse and harassment.
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Global Supply Chain Disruption and Resilience
Tracking the myriad factors influencing shifting supply chains.
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Systems Abstractions
Computing professionals use powerful abstractions to tame complexity in large software systems and distributed networks.
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Communications' Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event
How AI and science are shaping each other.
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Silicon Valley Enabled Russian State Propaganda, and Now It's Too Late
Facebook and YouTube could have limited the reach of RT and Sputnik years ago, but they didn't
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Why You Can't Rebuild Wikipedia with Crypto
Software engineer and Wikipedia editor talks about her Web3 skepticism
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Web3 Threatens to Segregate Our Online Lives
Governance tokens may seem like a way to moderate content, but they only give the appearance of democracy.
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Human Autonomy in the Age of AI
Current AI policy recommendations differ on what the risks to human autonomy are
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.
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Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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Futures of Digital Governance
Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.
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A Call to Action
Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.
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The Metaverse Will Require Computing Tech No One Knows How to Build
Experts believe building the metaverse will require nearly every kind of chip to be an order of magnitude more powerful than it is today
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