Communications of the ACM
It Is Time to Let Go of 'Virtual Reality'
Advocating standardized terminology and reporting guidelines for mixed reality research.
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Learning For the New Digital Age
Digital machines are automating knowledge work at an accelerating pace. How shall we learn and stay relevant?
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'Surfing Toward the Future'
A new report from Chile about improving economic competitiveness advances a novel interpretation of innovation. Timing is everything.
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving...
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The Other Side of Language
The conversation for action gives a framework for completing professional actions effectively.
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Thumb Numbers
Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.
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Moods
Recognizing and working with moods — your own, your team's, and your customers' — is essential to professional success.
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The Idea Idea
What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?
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The Grounding Practice
The skill of making and recognizing grounded claims is essential for professional practice. Getting objective data to support your conclusions is not enough.
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Managing Time, Part 2
Masterful time management means not just tracking of messages in your personal environment, but managing your coordination network with others.
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Who Are We - Now?
Considerable progress has been made toward the formation of a computing profession since we started tracking it in this column a decade ago.
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Managing Time
Professionals overwhelmed with information glut can find hope from new insights about time management.
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The Long Quest For -Universal Information Access
Digital object repositories are on the cusp of resolving the long-standing problem of universal information access in the Internet.
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The Resurgence of Parallelism
Parallel computation is making a comeback after a quarter century of neglect. Past research can be put to quick use today.
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Orchestrating Coordination in Pluralistic Networks
Learning to build virtual teams of people of diverse backgrounds is an urgent challenge.
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Computing's Paradigm
Trying to categorize computing as engineering, science, or math is fruitless; we have our own paradigm.
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Computing: The Fourth Great Domain of Science
Computing is as fundamental as the physical, life, and social sciences.
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Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.12