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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Astro Teller, Google's ‘captain of Moonshots,' on Making Profits at Google X
Google is all over the place.
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Work in an Age of Robots
What you are about to read was written by a human. Honest.
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The Technion’s Peretz Lavie on Technology and Education
What Stanford University is to Silicon Valley, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is to Israel’s booming tech sector.
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Google's Vint Cerf Warns of 'digital Dark Age'
Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet", says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost.
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the...
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Will the Internet of Things Finally Kill Privacy?
In the internet of things, the Federal Trade Commission sees the possibility of flourishing new markets. But it also sees a prologue to Black Mirror: in a new report...
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Sen. Ed Markey On Protecting Data Our Cars Are Sharing
Cars and trucks today are computers, and a new report overseen by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., comes with a warning: As more vehicles have wireless connections, the...
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Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Years ago I had coffee with a friend who ran a startup.
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Tim O'reilly Explains the Internet of Things
Tim O'Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial.
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AI Will Not Kill s, Says Microsoft Research Chief
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.
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Do-It-Yourself Textbook Publishing
Comparing experiences publishing textbooks using traditional publishers and do-it-yourself methods.
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Putting the Computer Science in Computing Education Research
Investing in computing education research to transform computer science education.
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Far-Sighted Thinking About Deleterious Computer-Related Events
Considerably more anticipation is needed for what might seriously go wrong.
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Three Paradoxes of Building Platforms
Insights into creating China's Taobao online marketplace ecosystem.
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We Need a Building Code For Building Code
A proposal for a framework for code requirements addressing primary sources of vulnerabilities for building systems.
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Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
About a half-billion dollars worth of it vanished from an online exchange in Tokyo.
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A Retreat For Google Glass and a Case Study in the Perils of Making Hardware
You won't have Glass to kick around anymore. At least not for a while.
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