From ACM Opinion
The current gap in policymakers' tech knowledge and technologists' ethics knowledge needs to be bridged to ensure AI's sustainable…
Analytics India Magazine| March 5, 2021
We did not anticipate that the dark side of the Internet would emerge with such ferocity. Or that we would feel an urgent need to fix it.
Los Angeles Times From ACM Opinion | October 29, 2019
Once, when users called Siri a "slut," the service responded: "I'd blush if I could." Such programming missteps could have been avoided altogether if there were...The Mercury News From ACM Opinion | October 10, 2019
Increased availability of cloud services and ownership of multiple digital devices create unique opportunities for digital assistants to provide guidance across...Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring, Paul N. Bennett, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Mark J. Encarnación From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2019
Silicon Valley's giants are no longer producing better products and services. They're exploiting people.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2019
Voice assistants are becoming commonplace in most homes and offices, but using women's voices for most devices may be doing more harm than good.
TechRepublic From ACM Opinion | August 23, 2019
Virtual reality is much more than a gaming technology. In fact, VR has the makings of a pedagogical silver bullet.
Wired From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2019
Mind-reading systems such as Facebook's brainwave-reading device and Neuralink's brain implants can affect privacy, security, identity, equality and personal safety...DownToEarth From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2019
Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University, argues that our grandkids will be mystified by our addiction to email. He has some thoughts...NPR From ACM Opinion | August 15, 2019
It takes a lot of effort, research, and efficiency to manipulate people online and influence their behavior in the real world. Silicon Valley has it down to a science...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2019
Scientific research is rarely designed to accommodate scientists with medical conditions or disabilities.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2019
In Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez examines elements of the modern world that appear to be designed with less consideration for women, including smartphones...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 3, 2019
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...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2019
At 10:30pm on 29 October 1969, a graduate student at UCLA sent a two-letter message from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to another machine a few hundred miles away at...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2019
Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2019
Code seems cold and objective, the raw logic of the internet, and Silicon Valley likes it that way.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 1, 2019
In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software...The Conversation From ACM Opinion | April 1, 2019
Young animals gallop across fields, climb trees and immediately find their feet with enviable grace after they fall.
Nature From ACM Opinion | March 29, 2019