Communications of the ACM
Considering the Impact of Technology on Society
Moshe Vardi on having the difficult conversation about technology and social responsibility.
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Why 99.9 Percent Is Not Good Enough
Peter Huber, senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute, is prophetic in this Ubiquity interview about the challenge of improving the U.S. electricity grid, a goal...
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Vint Cerf on Ipv6's Future, the Net's Redesign, and Google's Power
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award winner Vinton G. Cerf discusses a range of issues including broader Internet availability and his work with universities as Chief...
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How H-1b Workers Affect U.S. Jobs
The political backlash against U.S. employers hiring highly-skilled foreign workers resurfaced this week as companies applied for H-1B temporary visas. Professor...
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Interview with 2008 ACM A.m. Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov
An audio interview with MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, head of the Programming Methodology Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
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Google's Alfred Spector on the Hot Seat
Google vice president of research Alfred Spector says the search giant is working on a wide variety of research projects. One project is Search by Voice, an intuitive...
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Q&A: Our Dame Commander
Wendy Hall discusses her plans to increase ACM's membership and to create task forces in China, India, and Europe.
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Why Businesses Must Push Science Education
There's an argument taking place about America's dwindling stock of talent in science, technology, engineering and math. One side argues that a society built on...
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Twins Separated at Birth: Cloud Computing and Hpc
Microsoft's Dan Reed is the director of the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) organization, whose overall goal is the transformation of the way people construct and...
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Q&A: The Robot Wars Have Arrived
Brookings Institution fellow P.W. Singer says in an interview that the military's funding of robotics will have ramifications in areas that people are as yet unaware...
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It Built Into Your Jewelery
Henry Tirri, Nokia's head of research, says the economic downturn will lead to more investments in collaboration tools, broadband, video, and mobile technology...
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Information Architect Alex Wright Talks About the Lessons of It History
New York Times information architect Alex Wright says in an interview that there is a tendency to concentrate on information technology's future at the expenseView...
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne Shell, or Sh
Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell or sh programming language, says in an interview that the language aimed to remedy the problem of designing the shellView...
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It Skills Shortage Offers a Chance For nemployed Workers
The IT skills shortage may present a number of opportunities to unemployed tech workers. At a time when large numbers of qualified IT workers are having a difficult...
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The Grill: Jeannette M. Wing on the Hot Seat
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeannette M. Wing is an expert on computational thinking, the discipline of applying computer science's problem-solving methods...
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An Interview With C.A.R. Hoare
C.A.R. Hoare, developer of the Quicksort algorithm and a lifelong contributor to the theory and design of programming languages, discusses the practical application...
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Q&A: The Upper Limit
Jeannette Wing talks about clusters, creativity, and the power of computational thinking.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton...
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
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