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Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats?
Considering the conundrum of software updates.
Computing Divided: How Wide the Chasm?
Four years have seen accelerating division and growing fissures driven by international geopolitics and increasing technology and trade restrictions. The world is at an inflection point. What should ACM do?
For the U.S. to compete with China, the U.S. is using Chinese talent. Approximately 65% of doctoral students in computing in North America are international students. My estimate is that this pool is dominated by Chinese students.
Are We Cobblers without Shoes?: Making Computer Science Data FAIR
In search of more efficient data sharing.
The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.
I am certainly no philosopher, but as I observe the apparent erosion of agreement on factual evidence in our society. Somewhere along the line, critical thinking must be given the stature it deserves.
The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.
The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project
Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.
Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3
How distributed technologies could return more control to users.
Global Perspectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ACM luminaries describe how their experiences with DEI issues vary between the different continents where they have lived.
Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI
Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.
Mobile-App Privacy Nutrition Labels Missing Key Ingredients for Success
Android and iOS privacy labels confuse developers and end users.
What Must All Post-Secondary Students Learn about Computing?
Expanding students' understanding of computing's potential.
Rethinking Silicon Valley: Stewart Brand's Lost Journal
Discovering a hidden chapter in computing history.
Intelligent Futures in Task Assistance
Applying lessons learned developing and deploying task management software.
Accountability and Liability in Computing
The slow progress in cybersecurity is leading many to conclude the problem is not due to just a lack of technical solution but reflects a market failure, which disincentivizes those who may be able to fix serious security vulnerabilities from doing so.
The Blood Price of Unrestricted Privacy
Reinhard von Hanxleden ends his May 2022 Communications Viewpoint by pointing out the unthinking application of unconditional criteria to privacy "seems like a dead end in the long run." It has already proven to be a "dead end" with a Germanwings airliner crash into a cliff in France caused by the copilot.
An ambitious reporter's quest to interview a reclusive tech CEO leads her to find out who really pulls the strings.
Computing’s Grand Challenge for Sustainability
The computing community should embrace a grand challenge to reduce the carbon-emissions and environmental impact of computing in absolute terms dramatically, and if possible, to zero.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.
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