Communications of the ACM
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Programming in K-12 Science Classrooms
Introducing students to visual programming as a pathway to text-based programming.
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Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety
Examining the effects of electronic health records on the safety of patients in medical facilities.
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Software Patents Are Falling Down
Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's new test for patentable subject matter.
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Review: Littlebits Makes Robot Building Easier For Junior Engineers
In the recent surge of electronic building toys, my early favorite was LittleBits. The individual pieces each have a specific job, and they magnetically interlock...
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Fighting Isis Online
The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country.
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Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected.
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Rise of Concerns About AI: Reflections and Directions
Research, leadership, and communication about AI futures.
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In Defense of IBM
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.
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Keys Under Doormats
Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications.
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How Tetris Explains the Promise of the ltimate Algorithm
Pedro Domingos is a serious guy with big ambitions.
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Making AI Work in the Real World
Until recently, AI seemed firmly stuck in the realm of science fiction.
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sing Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.
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You Can't nderstand Security Without These Classic Works
There are seminal books, movies, articles, and more that you've been meaning to get to but just haven't made the time for.
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The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future
In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression.
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