Communications of the ACM
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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The Indigo Cyberattack Is a Warning of Things to Come
Those handling state secrets or critical infrastructure seem to fare no better than a bookstore chain.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
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Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
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A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
From ACM Opinion
Mr. President, Healthcare Has a Data Problem
The U.S. healthcare system is plagued by inefficiencies, in part due to deficiencies of health data interoperability between electronic health records and other...
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What's Next for Quantum Computing?
Companies are moving away from setting qubit records in favor of practical hardware and long-term goals.
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Should Quantum Computing Be on IT’s Strategic Roadmap?
Quantum computing is far from being a mature technology, but now is the time to pencil it into IT strategic roadmaps.
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Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce...
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
From Communications of the ACM
An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
From ACM Opinion
A Common-Sense Test for AI Could Lead to Smarter Machines
Injecting common sense into AI could mean big things for humans.
From ACM Opinion
How AI Could Accidentally Extinguish Humankind
Humanity is not prepared for artificial superintelligence right now.
From Communications of the ACM
These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.
From ACM Opinion
The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving
Next time you laugh at musty old tech, remember that new technologies are often built on it.
From ACM Opinion
Semiconductor Dependency Imperils American Security
The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act is only the first step in preventing Chinese dominance.
From Communications of the ACM
Apple's Challenge to Virtualization Software
Is it okay for security researchers to virtualize software to look for vulnerabilities?
From ACM Opinion
'Sentience' Is the Wrong Discussion to Have on AI Right Now
A more important conversation would be one about human compatibility and trust.12