User attitudes toward online intellectual property reveal how far social norms have strayed from legal notions of ownership.
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Responsible Research and Innovation in the Digital Age
RRI requires doing the best science for the world, not only the best science in the world.
On a mission to boldly go where no man has gone before, the series and movies somehow missed some promising technologies . . .
Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?
Online social media have provided a megaphone for voices that might not have been heard except in limited circles. The amplifying effect, however, gives visibility to deliberate (or ignorant) misinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence, and advocacy of terrorism.
Operating Systems as Possible Worlds
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by philosophers for consequences under assumptions, rich enough to shed philosophical light on either one?
Cuny Tutor Program Highlights Math, CS Careers to Nyc Students
A City University of New York program helps public school students learn science and math, and provides them with role models.
Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
Given a choice between the right to mass-disinform and democracy, I choose democracy.
Evaluating Computer Science Undergraduate Teaching: Why Student Evaluations Are Likely Biased
Unconscious bias is pervasive in computing, and training is our best remedy, how can untrained students evaluate their CS teachers without bias?
New hardware, services are aimed at identifying malware before it has the chance to execute.
Apprenticeship Emerging To Fill Skills Gaps
New approaches to apprenticeship aim to provide talented, if not traditionally trained, computing professionals.
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment
Mediating social change or reinforcing male hegemony?
The Chess Player Who Couldn’t Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
Attack of the Killer Microseconds
Microsecond-scale I/O means tension between performance and productivity that will need new latency-mitigating ideas, including in hardware.
Crafting a National Cyberdefense, and Preparing to Support Computational Literacy
John Arquilla considers how we should interpret the alleged Russian cyberattack on the U.S. Presidential election; Mark Guzdial describes the potential benefits of a 'computing lab.'
Seeking to use software, hardware, and algorithmic ingenuity to create unique domain-independent instruments.
What It Means to Be an Entrepreneur Today
In his keynote address before the fifth edition of the Tech Open Air conference in Berlin in 2016, Kickstarter's cofounder and CEO Yancey Strickler suggests the city's tech community faces "a very rare opportunity."
Gender Diversity in Computing: Are We Making Any Progress?
Recently I came across notes for a talk I gave in 1991 about women and computer science. It was depressing to read through it. Change the date and I could give the same talk today. How can that be?
A Genetic Theory of the Silicon Valley Phenomenon
What is it about the residents of Silicon Valley that encourages risk taking? I have often wondered about that and have reached an interesting, if possibly controversial conclusion.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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