Communications of the ACM
The U.S. Needs a High-Tech Manhattan Project
The United States needs to wrest the high-tech initiative from China and re-establish American dominance in telecommunications…
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Why We Can't Develop Voting Software That Works
Ever wonder why we could write software to get to the Moon, but not to count votes? Here are five reasons.
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We Need to Talk About 'Cloud Neutrality'
Given how critical the cloud has become for a huge swath of the tech economy, maybe we should ask ourselves whether this infrastructure should be in the hands of...
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Challenging the Myth of the 10x Programmer
A pervasive belief in software engineering is that some programmers are much better than others, and that their skills, abilities, and talents exert an outsized...
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Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
In "Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot", we present Meena, a 2.6-billion-parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.
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Why Connected Cars May Never Come
John Paré tells the story of his first trip in an autonomous vehicle.
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Virtual Reality Has An Accessibility Problem
Virtual reality has been touted as an "empathy machine" that lets users see what it's like to have a disability—but people with disabilities often can't use it....
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Does Artificial Intelligence Technology Foreshadow a New Arms Race?
The possibility of an artificial intelligence arms race poses a threat to international security similar to that of a conventional or nuclear armament race.
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AI Isn't a Solution to All Our Problems
It's simply a tool—and hardly a perfect one
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Guiding Students to Develop Essential Skills
Students should interact with one another to practice skills and construct their own understanding, with assistance from a teacher acting as a coach and guide —...
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When Human-Computer Interaction Meets Community Citizen Science
Empowering communities through citizen science.
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
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Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone?
Using software to control potentially unsafe systems requires the use of new software and system engineering approaches.
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