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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The Future of Information Work
Considering the recent effects of remote work on network structure.
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The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures into Breakthroughs
An interview with Yale University Sterling Professor of Computer Science Daniel Spielman.
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What Is So Great about Quantum Computing?
A Q&A with NIST theorist Alexey Gorshkov.
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How to Write Software with Mathematical Perfection
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other, and now he's working on how engineers talk to their machines.
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Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing's Responsibility
Efficiencies delivered by computing technology could play a vital role in enabling continued functionality within a resource-constrained future.
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The Planning and Care of Data
Rearranging buckets for no good reason.
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Involvement and Detachment
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
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Computers Have Memories Too
Simons Foundation Junior Fellow Sebastian Wolff discusses his quest to simplify the switch between the two deletion processes.
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Information: 'I' vs. 'We' vs. 'They'
Seeking a balance between protecting and using personal data.
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Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research
Considering the shifting fundamentals of cybersecurity research.
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Can Open Source Sustain Itself without Losing Its Soul?
What it means to be an open source contributor or maintainer has changed in recent years.
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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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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Yoshua Bengio: 'I Have Rarely Been as Enthusiastic about a New Research Direction'
Yoshua Bengio gushes about GFlowNets, calling them "a new beast" for which the appropriate optimization algorithms are still making rapid progress
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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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