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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Here Are 10 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
An international team of 22 big name AI researchers have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save the planet and humanity from imminent...
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Where Are All the Working Mothers in STEM?
Parenthood is a key driver of gender imbalance in STEM. Almost half of all women in full-time science jobs leave or go part-time after the birth of their first...
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Facebook's Calibra Is A Secret Weapon for Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency
Facebook's announcement of a new cryptocurrency, Libra, and the nonprofit association that will oversee it raises questions about the future of global banking and...
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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
A recent article about languages that developers love and those that they hate reported that Java was the third most loved language as well as the second most hated...
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Software Below the Poverty Line
The majority of open-source projects that we usually consider sustainable are actually receiving income below industry standards or even below the poverty threshold...
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Personal Data and the Internet of Things
It is time to care about digital provenance.
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An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency
Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.
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Through Computer Architecture, Darkly
Total-system hardware and microarchitectural issues are becoming increasingly critical.
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Continuity and Change in Internet Law
The fundamentals of the field of Internet law have remained consistent, but details have evolved in response to technological innovation.
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Encryption and Surveillance
Why the law-enforcement access question will not just go away.
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What Does It Mean for a Computing Curriculum to Succeed?
Examining the expansion, proliferation, and integration of computing education everywhere.
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Enterprise Wi-Fi: We Need Devices That Are Secure by Default
Seeking to increase awareness of WPA2 Enterprise network security technology flaws and reduce risk to users.
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As Governments Adopt Artificial Intelligence, There's Little Oversight and Lots of Danger
Artificial intelligence systems can—if properly used—help make government more effective and responsive, improving the lives of citizens. Improperly used, however...
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The FBI Wanted a Backdoor to the iPhone. Tim Cook Said No
In 2016, Tim Cook fought the law—and won.
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The U.S. Is Losing a Major Front to China in the New Cold War
A swathe of the world is adopting China's vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing...
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Q&A With Dartmouth Computer Science Professor Xia Zhou
Xia Zhou co-directs two labs at Dartmouth College and serves as a judge for HackDartmouth.
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Black Hole Hunters: Q&A With Katie Bouman
Scientists have revealed the first-ever image of a black hole. The picture is the result of a global collaboration in which scientists linked together telescopes...
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Is Julian Assange a Journalist, or Is He Just an Accused Thief?
Is Julian Assange a journalist? The Justice Department sidestepped that question in its indictment of Assange.
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