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
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | September 27, 2013
It's not evident from the way his hair flops casually down and across, nor from his equally relaxed demeanor, but John Hanke is one of Google's most important idea...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 21, 2013
The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.The Washington Post From ACM News | August 14, 2013
Microsoft stock lost about 10 percent of its value in the wake of a quarterly earnings report on Thursday that investors deemed sub-par. Yet revenue for the second...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2013
Given that Bitcoin first broke into mainstream attention when Gawker explained how to use it to buy drugs, perhaps the surprise is that it took federal regulators...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 15, 2013
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could decide whether it's possible to patent specific human genes that have been "snipped" out of our DNA...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2013
I had the pleasure of spending some time with Cory Doctorow on Feb. 25 at the Jefferson Hotel here in the nation's capital.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2013
"Start asking security experts which powerful Washington institutions have been penetrated by Chinese cyberspies," report my colleagues Craig Timberg and Ellen...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2013
It turns out that President Barack Obama’s head-scratching mention of a project to map the human brain in his most recent State of the Union speech was more than...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2013
Bill Gates held court on Reddit on Monday, becoming just the latest notable figure to submit to the site's open question-and-answer sessions.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 12, 2013
We woke up on the morning of Nov. 9 expecting the usual: for one of us, the tending to patients; for the other, the morning rush of packing lunches and getting...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2013
If you buy into Ray Kurzweil's vision of the Singularity, then the future is a marvelous place where we’re all physically and mentally enhanced and living longer...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
Perhaps it was the "fog of simulation." But the scariest aspect of a U.S.-Iran war game staged this week was the way each side miscalculated the other’s responses—and...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | September 21, 2012
Imagine computer-designed viruses that cure disease, new bacteria capable of synthesizing an unlimited fuel supply, new organisms that wipe out entire populations...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | December 12, 2011
In his recent biography of Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson says the Apple visionary revealed to him that he had finally "cracked" the problem with TV and was...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2011