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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How to Cross the Digital Divide, Rwanda-Style
Rwanda is emerging as an interesting test case on how a digital divide is actually being bridged in a methodical, well-thought-out, step-by-step manner. The first...
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High Tech's Great Leap Backward
Beijing recently announced that starting on July 1, all computers sold in China must come installed with government-designed software to block pornography. Testing...
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In Conversation with Dr. Gang Lu
Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, has worked for a European company, Netvibes.com, and has recently moved back to Shanghai. In this interview,...
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In Conversation with Dr. Gang Lu
Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, has worked for a European company, Netvibes.com, and has recently moved back to Shanghai. In this interview,...
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The Dmca Is Endangering American Security
I've had the government's 60-day Cyberspace Policy Review sitting on my desk for many days now, dutifully highlighted and marked up with notes. And I see one gigantic...
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Web Surfing in a Wireless Network of Your Very Own
Not long ago Web browsing required sitting in one place and using a computer plugged into a cable. Now, people expect to hop online whenever they want using wireless...
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Ray Ozzie on the Potential of Cloud Computing
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...
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Ray Ozzie on the Potential of Cloud Computing
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...
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Berners-Lee: We No Longer Fully nderstand the Web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...
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Berners-Lee: We No Longer Fully nderstand the Web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character...
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Q&A: Corrado Priami Explains Why Computer Science Is Systems Biology's Best Foundation
"Computer science is the best candidate for laying the foundation of systems biology, and not mathematics as it has been thought so far," says University of Trento...
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Gregg Favalora Talks About 3-D Imaging Breakthroughs
Gregg Favalora, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Actuality Medical Inc., discusses 'crystal ball' 3-D imaging, breakthrough...
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Xeround's Yarkoni Talks About the Cloud, Databases and More
Charlotte Yarkoni joined Xeround as chief executive officer 16 months ago. Now, the former Amdocs and Cingular executive is transitioning the software company from...
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...
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The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...
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Mobility Drives Intel's Growth With Notebooks Outselling Pcs
Mobility is the way forward for Intel in 2009 with the number of notebooks outselling PCs and the vendor recording one of its highest sales for its mobile processor...
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Why 99.9 Percent Is Not Good Enough
Peter Huber, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, is prophetic in this Ubiquity interview about the challenge of improving the U.S. electricity grid, a goal...
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Q&A: Our Dame Commander
Wendy Hall discusses her plans to increase ACM's membership and to create task forces in China, India, and Europe.
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