Communications of the ACM
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February 2015
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J. Craig Venter on DNA and Life's Mysteries
J. Craig Venter is in the life business.
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award by Thinking Small
Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.
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Net Neutrality: How the Government Finally Got It Right
For years, the federal government supported the principle of net neutrality: the idea that broadband providers should treat all Internet traffic the same.
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Tetris Creators Talk Virtual Reality, Touch Screens, History, E-Sports
As the second and final day of the 2015 DICE Summit came to a close, Alexey Pajitnov took the stage in a rare public appearance to talk frankly about the history and legacy of Tetris, his most famous creation.
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The Biggest Hole in the FCC's New Internet Rules
The people clamoring for tough, new regulations for Internet service—everyone from net neutrality activists and a few blue-chip companies to President Obama and John Oliver— got pretty much everything they wanted in the proposals
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Quantum Computing Without Qubits
For more than 20 years, Ivan H. Deutsch has struggled to design the guts of a working quantum computer.
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Tim O'Reilly Explains the Internet of Things
Tim O'Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
After more than a decade of debate and a record-setting proceeding that attracted nearly 4 million public comments, the time to settle the Net Neutrality question has arrived.
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Google Brain's Co-inventor Tells Why He's Building Chinese Neural Networks
To chat with Andrew Ng I almost have to tackle him.
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Televised Football Is Looking More Like a Video Game—in Subtle Ways
It is impossible to consider American football without considering television.
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NASA Has Its Sights Set on Europa
Yesterday, NASA announced its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request.
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15 Predictions for Tech and Design in 2015
It's our favorite time of year, when frogs from around the world examine the state of technology's future.
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A Future Segregated by Science?
Few women and minorities are getting STEM degrees, although STEM jobs are multiplying and pay more than many other careers. Will our future be delineated by who does and who doesn't have a science education (and the resulting
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We Need a Building Code for Building Code
A proposal for a framework for code requirements addressing primary sources of vulnerabilities for building systems.
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Far-Sighted Thinking about Deleterious Computer-Related Events
Considerably more anticipation is needed for what might seriously go wrong.
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Three Paradoxes of Building Platforms
Insights into creating China's Taobao online marketplace ecosystem.
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Putting the Computer Science in Computing Education Research
Investing in computing education research to transform computer science education.
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In Defense of Soundiness: A Manifesto
Soundy is the new sound.
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Do-It-Yourself Textbook Publishing
Comparing experiences publishing textbooks using traditional publishers and do-it-yourself methods.
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Too Big to Fail
Visibility leads to debuggability.
Why the Pass at the End of Super Bowl XLIX was the Right Call
02.05.2015If we explore the logic behind the Seattle coaching decision near the end of Superbowl XLIX with computational thinking, we'll …
Socializing with Robots @Ginza
02.02.2015Modern social robots are making their debut in our daily lives.
Launching a New Girls Who Code Chapter
02.01.2015What is involved in starting a new Girls Who Code club?
J. Craig Venter on DNA and Life's Mysteries
02.10.2015J. Craig Venter is in the life business.
The Attention Machine
02.09.2015Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives …
Human Traffickers Caught on Hidden Internet
02.09.2015In November 2012 a 28-year-old woman plunged 15 meters from …