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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It Is Time to Let Go of 'Virtual Reality'
Advocating standardized terminology and reporting guidelines for mixed reality research.
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How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation
Factoring the slowing up of startups.
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Barbershop Computing
Moving education beyond computer science pipelines.
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Closing Our Digital Divides
Seeking a more efficient path to improved broadband Internet access.
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Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
How collaborative designs and community-based moderation could improve social media.
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Rebutting Rebuttals
Evaluating the impact of the conference review rebuttal process.
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We Need to Focus on How Our Data Is Used, Not Just How It Is Shared
Toward better understanding of the different ways data circulates between users and platforms.
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Voice in the Machine: Ethical Considerations for Language-Capable Robots
Parsing the promise of language-capable robots.
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Improving Computing Education Research through Valuing Design
Exploring alternatives to existing research systems and methods.
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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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AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation
Trust and trustworthiness are central to how ethics helps society survive and thrive.
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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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Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
Surveying the nontechnical issues interwoven with computer-related technologies.
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Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects
Using teaspoon languages to integrate programming across myriad academic disciplines.
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Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
Reaching out across computer science research communities.
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