All posts by Peter Denning

Peter J. Denning (pjd@nps.edu) is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cebrowski Institute for information innovation at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Ubiquity, and is a past president of ACM. The author’s views expressed here are not necessarily those of his employer or the U.S. federal government.
Privacy and Security

Doing Business With Leaks

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Wikileaks has been the the news a lot lately. There has been plenty of discussion about whether the founder (Assange) has committed crimes or whether he was exercising free speech rights. That debate may go on for a while. Continue reading Doing Business With Leaks →

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Computer Science

Symposia on Ubiquity

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We computing professionals are confronted with new and complex questions nearly every day. The events of the day move so fast that we do not have the chance to reflect on those questions and find new answers or even just new understanding. With the launch of the New Ubiquity, we are introducing a new feature, the Symposium. The editors will pose a question and invite a set of leading thinkers to reflect on it. We will publish their reflections. Their thinking may help you accelerate yours on that question. Continue reading Symposia on Ubiquity →

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Welcome!

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Welcome to the Ubiquity blog.

Ubiquity is the reviewed online magazine of opinion and commentary about the future of computing, brought to you by the Association for Computing Machinery.

The purpose of this blog is for the editors of Ubiquity to post their thoughts and reactions to the computing world that exists all around them.

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