Communications of the ACM
Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
Incorporating considerations of reasonable pluralism, individual agency, and legitimate authority.
From Communications of the ACM
Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
From Communications of the ACM
An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
From Communications of the ACM
An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
From Communications of the ACM
Computational Thinking Should Just be Good Thinking
Seeking to change computing teaching to improve computer science.
From Communications of the ACM
Europe's Controversial Digital Copyright Directive Finalized
Considering the new liability risks for ISPs, search engines, and news aggregators under recent EU-wide mandatory rules.
From ACM Opinion
Why Matthew Miller Sees a Bright Future for Fedora
Fedora project leader Matthew Miller discusses popular adoption, competing standards, upcoming changes, and hot-button topics such as systemd.
From ACM Opinion
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...
From ACM Opinion
Siri's #MeToo Responses Show Why Tech Needs Women
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...
From ACM Opinion
A Controversial Plan to Encrypt More of the Internet
The road to routing all Domain Name System lookups through HTTPS is pocked with disagreements over just how much it will help.
From ACM Opinion
How Artificial Intelligence Is Supercharging Materials Science
MIT Associate Professor Juejun Hu shines a light on the impact machine learning and AI are having on materials science and engineering.
From ACM Opinion
I Competed Against An AI
Marc Zao-Sanders, founder and CEO of Filtered, squared off against magpie, the set of algorithms that recommends learning content to people looking to pick up new...
From ACM Opinion
Asimov's Three Laws Have Failed the Robots
Almost no one thinks that Isaac Asimov's Three Laws could work for truly intelligent AI.
From ACM Opinion
Don't Fear the Terminator
The fear that artificial intelligence machines could become our overlords — or perhaps wipe us out altogether — reflects a misunderstanding of AI.
From ACM Opinion
Hackathon Victor on Laying Foundations and CS Support Systems
Oluchi Chukwunyere, a computer-science major at North Carolina A&T State University, helped lead a team of four students to a First Place victory at the Black Enterprise...
From Communications of the ACM
Multi-Device Digital Assistance
Increased availability of cloud services and ownership of multiple digital devices create unique opportunities for digital assistants to provide guidance across...
From Communications of the ACM
What Is a Chief Security Officer Good For?
Security requires more than an off-the-shelf solution.
From Communications of the ACM
How Might We Increase System Trustworthiness?
Summarizing some of the changes that seem increasingly necessary to address known system and network deficiencies and anticipate currently unknown vulnerabilities...
From Communications of the ACM
The Cloud as an Innovation Platform for Software Development
How cloud computing became a platform.
From ACM Opinion
The Danger of Thinking We're All 'Addicted' to Tech
Telling ourselves that devices and platforms "hijack" our brains promotes passivity instead of empowerment.
From ACM Careers