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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Toward a Solid Acceptance of the Decentralized Web of Personal Data: Societal and Technological Convergence
Giving individuals more control of their personal data.
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Ulterior Motives
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...
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Microsoft's Chris Young on Bringing AI to Main Street
Christopher Young, Microsoft's top strategy executive, views non-tech customers as artificial intelligence's big untapped market.
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Legal Challenges to Generative AI, Part II
Deliberating on inconclusive AI-generated policy questions.
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How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation
Factoring the slowing up of startups.
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Closing Our Digital Divides
Seeking a more efficient path to improved broadband Internet access.
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Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health
MIT Professor Alexey Makarin, whose research was cited in Social Media and Youth Mental Health, a recent advisory report by the U.S. surgeon general, discusses...
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Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health
MIT Professor Alexey Makarin, whose research was cited in Social Media and Youth Mental Health, a recent advisory report by the U.S. surgeon general, discusses...
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For a More Transparent Governance of Open Source
Seeking the best governance models for FOSS projects.
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Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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The Indigo Cyberattack Is a Warning of Things to Come
Those handling state secrets or critical infrastructure seem to fare no better than a bookstore chain.
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AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
If we are lucky, new technologies will only cause brief confusion.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.
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Will AI Help Us to Work Less?
The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story.
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Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
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Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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GPT-4 Is Not Perfect, but Neither Are You
An interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman.
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