Communications of the ACM
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Is LiDAR on Its Way Out?
As automation proliferates, sensing is increasingly moving toward software and away from LiDAR
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Save Social Media by Treating It like a City
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
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Artificial Intelligence Across Company Borders
Enabling effective cross-company AI without data disclosure.
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Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination
Considering the intersection of technical design and civil rights when building and using classification algorithms.
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AWS Has a Sexy New Modernization Play: Mainframes
AWS announced a range of cool services at re:Invent 2021, but none more important than its Mainframe Modernization service
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The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
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Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental...
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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
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Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
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Protecting the Global Internet from Technology Cold Wars
Considering the perceived dangers of the global information flow.
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With Internet Shutdowns, India Is Violating a 'Duty to Memory'
The shutdowns, aimed at quelling unrest, undercut the nation's moral and ethical obligation to record history as it is.
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Tesla AI Chief Says Self-Driving Cars Don't Need Lidar
Andrej Karpathy shares why the company still believes in a purely vision-based autonomous driving solution.
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Reimplementing Software Interfaces Is Fair Use
A multifactored rationale for denying Oracle's claim against Google.
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Software Professionals, Malpractice Law, and Codes of Ethics
In pursuit of professional status for computing professionals.
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Understanding Law and the Rule of Law: A Plea to Augment CS Curricula
Why law matters for computer scientists and other folk.
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Google Has A Plan To 'Fix' Online Privacy. Everybody Hates It
Google recently decided to adopt a new way to track users, and says it's more private than cookies and nearly as effective for advertising. The rest of the Internet...
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We Need a Global Push to Connect the World's Young People
As the World Wide Web turns 32, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Web Foundation Co-founder Rosemary Leith reflect on its power to catalyze change and advocate...
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The Worldwide Web As We Know It May Be Ending
A combination of rising nationalism, trade disputes, and concerns about the market dominance of certain global tech companies has prompted threats of regulatory...
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