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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How Software Stifles Competition and Innovation
Factoring the slowing up of startups.
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Closing Our Digital Divides
Seeking a more efficient path to improved broadband Internet access.
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Francis Enyi on Bridging the Healthcare Deficit in Africa
Francis Enyi, a senior program analyst with Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeri, discusses how his team of software developers, medical personnel...
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Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
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Fragility in AIs Using Artificial Neural Networks
Suggesting ways to reduce fragility in AI systems that include artificial neural networks.
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Lost in Afghanistan: Can the World Take ICT4D Seriously?
Seeking to maximize the value of information and communication technologies for development research.
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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.
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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...
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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
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