What Should Be Done About Social Media?
One of the most basic and urgent policy questions is how to tackle the rising role of social media in our public sphere.
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Digital Contact Tracing May Protect Privacy, But It Is Unlikely to Stop the Pandemic
Considering the potential benefits versus the risks of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Using Data and Respecting Users
Three technical and legal approaches that create value from data and foster user trust.
Using argument technology to strengthen critical literacy skills for assessing media reports.
Virtual Reality Meets the Office
"Virtual meeting spaces greatly expand the possibilities for online communication—and, at their best, create an environment that parallels or exceeds real world interaction."
The Pros and Cons of Online Lab Classes for Computer Science – 2020 Pandemic Edition
Contrary to expectations, online lab classes during our current pandemic may actually have some benefits over their in-person counterparts.
Prepare Your Meal Together with a Robot
Julie Shah and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology build robots that can learn from demonstration, understand humans, and truly collaborate.
Who Has Access to Your Smartphone Data?
ISPs, app developers, and even the government may know more about you than you think.
Self-Driving Vehicle Technology: Progress and Promises
Seeking the answer to the elusive question, 'Are we there yet'?
A Holistic View of Future Risks
Almost everything is somehow interrelated with everything else—and that should not surprise us.
Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
A rare find: the user manual of the oldest surviving computer in the world, the Zuse Z4 relay machine (1945).
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first U.S. Computer Chess Championship in 1970.
Anticipating the Feeling Economy
As artificial intelligence proliferates, human emotional intelligence increasingly will be prized in workers.
Testing Asimov’s Idea for Power From Space
Isaac Asimov's notion of capturing energy in space and beaming it to the Earth’s surface faces its first orbital testing.
Avalanches Make Us All Innovators
Avalanches generate enormous breakdowns. The practices of innovation adoption may be just what you need to resolve them.
‘Have You Thought About . . .’: Talking About Ethical Implications of Research
Considering the good and the bad effects of technology.
Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information
We investigate the intrinsic value of location data in the context of strong privacy, where location information is only available from end users via purchase.
Technical Perspective: Computing the Value of Location Data
"Computing Value of Spatiotemporal Information," by Heba Aly et al., describes a technique for computing the monetary value of a person's location data for a potential geo-marketplace.
Integrating Computing in School Subjects: A Conceptual Framework for Design and Analysis
This post presents a conceptual framework for integrating computing and computational thinking into other domains. The framework is intended to support curriculum and assessment design, as well as providing analysis of examples of practice.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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