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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A Case for Banning Facial Recognition
A Google research scientist explains why she thinks the police shouldn't use facial recognition software.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
From ACM Opinion
Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how to fight Covid-19 conspiracies.
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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A Vision of K-12 Computer Science Education for 2030
Exploring goals, perspectives, and challenges.
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A Taxonomy of Automated Assistants
Rating your intelligent (human or automated) assistant.
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Organizing Family Support Services at ACM Conferences
Seeking to improve access to conferences and provide support for attendees with children.
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Why Is Cybersecurity Not a Human-Scale Problem Anymore?
Examining the structure of the enterprise attack surface in view of the relative ease with which cyberdefenses can be subverted.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Professional Work
Considering the implications of the influence of artificial intelligence given previous industrial revolutions.
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The Temptation of Data-Enabled Surveillance
Are universities the next cautionary tale?
From ACM Opinion
How to Know if Artificial Intelligence is About to Destroy Civilization
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
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Four Internets
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
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Through the Lens of a Passionate Theoretician
Considering the far-reaching and fundamental implications of computing beyond digital computers.
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Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has confronted us with a raft of dilemmas that challenge us to decide what values are important in our designs.
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Computing and Community in Formal Education
Culturally responsive computing repurposes computer science education by making it meaningful to not only students, but also to their families and communities. ...
From ACM Opinion
We Need to Talk About 'Cloud Neutrality'
Given how critical the cloud has become for a huge swath of the tech economy, maybe we should ask ourselves whether this infrastructure should be in the hands of...
From ACM Opinion
Why Connected Cars May Never Come
John Paré tells the story of his first trip in an autonomous vehicle.
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