With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
Rebecca T. Mercuri, Peter G. Neumann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2021
Seeking to rectify the two mutually exclusive ways of comparing computational power — encoding and simulation.
Nachum Dershowitz From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2021
Speculators might make money on cryptocurrency, but the arguments for its usefulness fail completely.
Current Affairs From ACM Opinion | April 23, 2021
Google recently decided to adopt a new way to track users, and says it's more private than cookies and nearly as effective for advertising. The rest of the Internet...Protocol From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2021
Jeffrey Ullman, co-recipient of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award, discusses the imposter syndrome, running a Burroughs 5500, and using applications to address social...The Stanford Daily From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2021
Seeking to develop a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared among language editions.
Denny Vrandečić From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2021
MIT Professor Devavrat Shah shares his thoughts on human content moderation, recommendation algorithms, and diluting the spread of misinformation online.
MIT News From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2021
The federal government should set minimum security standards for software and software development.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2021
The Pascal programming language creator Niklaus Wirth reflects on its origin, spread, and further development.
Niklaus Wirth From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021
The issue is not who has the "truth," but whose claims deserve more credence.
Peter J. Denning, Jeffrey Johnson From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2021