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On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 28, 2013
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 25, 2013
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the prediction of the Higgs boson, which was experimentally confirmed...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 15, 2013
According to popular discourse, video games are either the divine instrument of education’s future or the software of Satan himself, provoking young men to carry...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2013
Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 2, 2013
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 20, 2013
Last year, while cleaning out the basement of my childhood home, I discovered a plastic storage bin marked "Calcusoft." Inside were piles of notebooks filled with...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2013
Let's start at the end point: what you're doing right now. You are pulling information from a network onto a screen, enhancing your embodied experience with a communication...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2013
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2013
The chief data scientist of President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is headed to the University of Chicago. Rayid Ghani will serve as the chief data scientist...The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2013
By all accounts, Rayid Ghani's data work for President Obama's reelection campaign was brilliant and unprecedented.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 9, 2013
One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work...The Atlantic From ACM News | May 3, 2013
Christina Agapakis is a rising star among the new generation of biology researchers. Trained in the science of custom-building organisms known as synthetic biology...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 30, 2013
On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children’s apps for phones and tablets gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 21, 2013