Communications of the ACM
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Communications' Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event
How AI and science are shaping each other.
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Security: The Lock and the Key to Blockchain's Future
For blockchain technology to fulfill its full potential, the security standard needs to mature
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The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force
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Crypto and Technology for the People
Brown University professor Seny Kamara talks about the intersection between social responsibility and cryptography/technology
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Who Gets to Decide if an AI Is Alive?
We need a Turing Test for consciousness that works for modern AI
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.
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Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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Futures of Digital Governance
Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.
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Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?
Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.
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A Call to Action
Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.
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China's 5G Soars over America's
In some U.S. cities, 5G is slower than the old 4G system; Washington must make it a priority
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The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties
The search for a crypto use case continues
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The Race to Save the Internet from Quantum Hackers
The quantum computer revolution could break encryption, but more-secure algorithms can safeguard privacy
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Supercomputing to Save the Planet
Fujitsu CTO Vivek Mahajan says true power of cloud will come with democratizing HPC and quantum computers for the masses
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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Machine-Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
An interview with Percy Liang, associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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I Unplugged What?
The lessons here are broader than just a simple "Don't do that."
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