Communications of the ACM
The Role of Robotics in Managing Public Health and Infectious Diseases
As the COVID-19 epidemic escalates, robots have the potential to be deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food…
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Four Internets
Considering the merits of several models and approaches to Internet governance.
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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, computation, artificial intelligence...
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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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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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Are We Losing Momentum?
Estimating when the second half of the world will come online.
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We're Banning Facial Recognition. We're Missing the Point.
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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Why Google's Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters
Quantum computing is the first computing paradigm since Turing expected to change the fundamental scaling behavior of algorithms, making certain tasks feasible...
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An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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Are We Witnessing A New Sputnik Moment In IT?
Google's engineers have succeeded in designing a quantum computer which, for the first time ever, has solved a problem a conventional computer is not able to. Are...
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Hackers Needed To Defeat Hackers
In an online world infested with hackers, we need more hackers.
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Wouldn't It Be Great If People Could Vote on the Blockchain?
Mobile voting could increase voter participation, but it's plagued by security issues in search of a solution.
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The Success of the Web: A Triumph of the Amateurs
Connecting the unique factors that influenced the origination and subsequent development of the World Wide Web.
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Facebook's Calibra Is A Secret Weapon for Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency
Facebook's announcement of a new cryptocurrency, Libra, and the nonprofit association that will oversee it raises questions about the future of global banking and...
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Love It or Hate It, Java Continues to Evolve
A recent article about languages that developers love and those that they hate reported that Java was the third most loved language as well as the second most hated...
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An Interview with David Brin on Resiliency
Many risks of catastrophic failures of critical infrastructures can be significantly reduced by relatively simple measures to increase resiliency.
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As Governments Adopt Artificial Intelligence, There's Little Oversight and Lots of Danger
Artificial intelligence systems can—if properly used—help make government more effective and responsive, improving the lives of citizens. Improperly used, however...
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The U.S. Is Losing a Major Front to China in the New Cold War
A swathe of the world is adopting China's vision for a tightly controlled internet over the unfettered American approach, a stunning ideological coup for Beijing...
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The .S. Campaign Against Huawei Can Offer No .S.-Based Alternatives
As U.S. officials have pressured allies not to use networking gear from Chinese technology giant Huawei over spying concerns, President Trump has urged American...
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