Communications of the ACM
Where Is the Research on Cryptographic Transition and Agility?
Gaps facing the industry as quantum safe algorithms move closer to standardization.
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Russia Is Risking the Creation of an Irreversible 'Splinternet'
If Russia disconnects—or is booted—from the Internet's governing bodies, the Internet may never be the same.
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Innovation Is Slowing Down—and Big Tech Is to Blame
The great IT revolution is preventing, not promoting, economic dynamism
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Save Social Media by Treating It like a City
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
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2021 Was the Year of Monster AI Models
GPT-3 kicked off a new trend in AI for bigger and bigger models, but how large will they get?
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Nicki Washington: How Tackling Tech's Diversity Challenges Can Spur Innovation
Computer scientist and educator says technology's diversity problems begin in learning and working environments
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Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
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What's Missing from the Push to Diversify Tech?
Focusing on hiring pipelines or career pathways alone won't solve tech's diversity and inclusion problems.
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Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased
Women in computing have been silenced more often than they've been listened to
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Taxing Digital Advertising Could Help Break Up Big Tech
A novel approach to rein in the largest technology companies, encourage competition and innovation, and help democracy
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Why It's So Hard to Make Tech More Diverse
Block Party founder Tracy Chou reflects on the obstacles she's encountered as a tech entrepreneur.
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The Coming Productivity Boom
AI and other digital technologies have been surprisingly slow to improve economic growth. But that could be about to change.
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When AI Becomes Child's Play
Algorithms trained in pattern recognition struggle to understand kids.
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Why the Most Controversial U.S. Internet Law Is Worth Saving
Donald Trump and Joe Biden both want to throw out Section 230. Here's why America should fix it instead. By Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center...
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The Field of Natural Language Processing is Chasing the Wrong Goal
Researchers are too focused on whether AI systems can ace tests of dubious value. They should be testing whether systems grasp how the world works.
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Here’s One Way to Make Daily Covid-19 Testing Feasible on a Mass Scale
Pooling tests with the help of machine learning can allow us to safely reopen without a vaccine.
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AI Doomsayer Says His Ideas Are Catching On
Philosopher Nick Bostrom says major tech companies are listening to his warnings about artificial intelligence.
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Bruce Schneier: Nsa Spying Is Making S Less Safe
Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and author on security topics, provides perspective on the revelations from documents purloined from the U.S. National Security...
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