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
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 18, 2015
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
When I was 10 years old, my friend Sarah and I found a newly minted copy of "The Joy of Sex" under her parents' bed.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2015
Imagine an America where federal, state, and municipal law enforcement agencies cannot access critical communications, even when legally authorized to do so.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2015
People's distress over the privacy of their communications has never been more acute. Whether the fear is over U.S. surveillance or breaches by hackers of unknown...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2015
Humans will face their biggest test when computers surpass human intellectual capabilities, according to Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Playing with a geometric puzzle or stress ball at your desk can seem like idle diversion. It may also spark clearer or more creative thinking.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2015
Robots are becoming more of a reality in everyday life, and movies have started to overhaul their depiction of them. They're gentler, friendlier, and often better...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | February 27, 2015
What Stanford University is to Silicon Valley, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is to Israel’s booming tech sector.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | February 17, 2015
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2014
Does artificial intelligence threaten our species, as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently suggested?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014