Communications of the ACM
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December 2018
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What the California Wildfires Can Teach Us About Data Sharing
When a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant failed, leaking radioactive material into the atmosphere and water.
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Can the U.S. Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age?
Imagine, if you will (and you should), a big American tech executive being detained over unspecified charges while on a trip to Beijing.
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Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War With China
If you only scan the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S.-China trade war is mainly about tariffs.
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Is the U.S. Lagging in the Quest for Quantum Computing?
A quantum computer capable of breaking the strongest codes protecting online communications and computer data is highly unlikely to appear within the next decade, a new report says. But leading experts still recommend the U.S…
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Facebook's Top AI Scientist Says It's 'Dust' Without Artificial Intelligence
Without artificial intelligence there wouldn't be much left of Facebook as we know it today.
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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data Bank.
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Learning Machine Learning
A discussion of the rapidly evolving realm of machine learning.
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A Chance Gardener
Harvesting open source products and planting the next crop.
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Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How
Considering the difficult technical and sociological issues affecting the regulation of artificial intelligence research and applications.
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Counterpoint: Regulators Should Allow the Greatest Space for AI Innovation
Permissionless innovation should be the governing policy for AI technologies.
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Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction
Seeking to address a wider range of user requests toward task completion.
Short Take: Big Data and IoT in Practice
12.10.2018Looking at some use cases for the adoption of big data in industries that deal with physical things, and drawing …
There Are No Digital Humanities
11.26.2018Many think that the opposite of digital is analog or mechanical.
FictionStein
11.21.2018Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot
12.11.2018Elowan is a mobile cybernetic plant with a robotic base.
Xiaomi's AI Restores Details, Enhances Colors in Poorly Exposed Photos
12.11.2018Researchers at Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi have devised an artificial …
Purdue Researchers Devise 3D Printer That Can Make Energetic Materials Safer
12.11.2018Researchers have developed a three-dimensional printing technique that fabricates energetic …