From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
One of the recommendations by the president's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies on reforming the National Security Agency—No. 5, if you're...Slate From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2014
Few critics of the NSA will find much satisfaction in President Obama's speech this morning or in the set of reforms that he announced.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2014
Those of us who came of age in the Internet era may not know that they owe their ability to go online to a court decision 30 years ago today about a mechanically...Slate From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2014
Last month two judges issued two different opinions about the NSA's controversial bulk metadata collection program.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
As the new Federal Communications Commission chairman, Tom Wheeler, has kicked up some dust in the tech community by laying the groundwork for a grand vision for...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
It's a good bet that, in the next few weeks, President Obama will impose some serious reforms—and ask Congress to enact a few more—on how the National Security...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2013
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, "I think it would be a good idea."Slate From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2013
On Aug. 20, NASA's administrator formally welcomed the newest candidates of the astronaut corpsand released a space exploration roadmap that includes robotic and...Slate From ACM Opinion | September 20, 2013
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media.Slate From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2013
In the past few years, programming has gone mainstream, as celebrities from Chris Bosh to President Obama jump on the "everyone should learn to code" bandwagon.Slate From ACM Opinion | August 19, 2013
When he met Julian Assange for the first time, Sigurdur Thordarson admired the WikiLeaks founder's attitude and quickly signed up to the cause.Slate From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2013
Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet,...Slate From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2013
The word mooc sounds a bit like slang from Goodfellas or the affectionate shortening of the already-affectionate name of a former outfielder for the New York Mets...Slate From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2013