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Opinion May 1 2015

Incentivizing Quality and Impact in Computing Research

Developing consensus on how the computing-research publication culture should be changed has proven to be exceedingly hard. The Computing Research Association has now addressed this issue head-on in its new Best Practice Memo.

Computing Applications

Communications Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi

Opinion Feb 1 2015

Is Information Technology Destroying the Middle Class?

While optimists argue that though technology always destroy jobs, it also creates new jobs, pessimists argue that the speed in which information technology is currently destroying jobs is unparalleled.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jan 1 2015

The Rise and Fall of Industrial Research Labs

The news flashed last September that Microsoft Research closed down its Silicon Valley Lab. While the specifics may have been surprising, these actions are entirely consistent with the historical pattern of the rise and fall of industrial research labs.

Computing Applications

Opinion Sep 1 2014

Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?

A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Moshe Vardi, Communications of the ACM's Editor-in-Chief

Opinion Aug 1 2014

Openism, IPism, Fundamentalism, and Pragmatism

Ownership of intellectual property is fast becoming a battleground in the 21st century, with today's economy being increasingly driven by large corporations dependent on these intangible assets.

Computing Applications

Opinion May 1 2014

Moore’s Law and the Sand-Heap Paradox

Many of us have lived with Moore's Law for all of our professional lives. We knew that it cannot continue forever, but the end always seemed to be beyond the horizon. No more. We are witnessing the denouement of an extraordinary technical saga.

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Mar 1 2014

Boolean Satisfiability: Theory and Engineering

The Boolean Satisfiability Problem is a problem of central importance in computer science. At the same time, it is a paradigmatic constraint-satisfaction problem with numerous applications, including hardware and software design, operations research, bioinformatics, and more.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jan 1 2014

Scalable Conferences

One of the main insights developed at the "Publication Culture in Computing Research" workshop, held in November 2012, was that the computing-research publishing ecosystem — both conferences and journals — has simply failed to scale up with the growth of the field.

Computing Applications

Opinion Nov 1 2013

The End of The American Network

The U.S. National Security Agency's pervasive phone and Internet eavesdropping and surveillance operations is making the surveillance technology in George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, seem rather primitive in comparison.

Computing Applications

Opinion Sep 1 2013

Has The Innovation Cup Run Dry?

The future for continuing innovation is quite bright, according to the conventional wisdom. Recently, however, several techno-pessimists have been questioning this techno-optimism. So which way is it?

Computing Applications

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