From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
The high-stakes stalemate between Apple and the Justice Department isn’t the first time that Washington and Silicon Valley have come to a showdown over security...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | February 22, 2016
It used to be the case when I traveled abroad that I would take a little pocket dictionary that provided translations for commonly used phrases and words.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 29, 2016
A new gene-editing technology has been relentlessly hyped over the past year, and it goes by a catchy if rather incongruous acronym: Crispr.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2016
PayPal Inc. co-founder Max Levchin wants to make sure lawmakers know "what the hell they're talking about" when they talk about encryption.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 8, 2016
One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2016
For a story that takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" a great deal of the technology in the "Star Wars" series actually has parallels today on...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2015
Google's move to give away its latest machine-learning software, key to its speech- and photo-recognition programs, isn’t as crazy as it may appear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2015
In an exclusive interview, he spoke to reporter Deborah Gage in San Diego, where about 1,200 of Intel's executives, portfolio companies, partners and customers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
He's just helped bring down a longstanding trans-Atlantic data-transfer pact used by thousands of businesses and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems is already...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | October 22, 2015
In the recent surge of electronic building toys, my early favorite was LittleBits. The individual pieces each have a specific job, and they magnetically interlock...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2015
"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
As it advances now beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is sending back data from its historic encounter with the dwarf planet like a long sigh of relief.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 20, 2015
In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2015
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 3, 2015