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At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 6, 2015
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...The New York Times From ACM News | September 28, 2015
Sunny Mehta has been a musician, a professional poker player and an author, and he has worked in finance.The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 18, 2015
James L. Flanagan, whom we can thank for articulate digital assistants like Siri and intelligible subway loudspeakers and blame for the disembodied voices that...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 1, 2015
John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 24, 2015
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...The New York Times From ACM News | August 14, 2015
A team of roboticists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claimed a $2 million prize on Saturday that was offered by a Pentagon research...The New York Times From ACM News | June 8, 2015
Pim Koeslag designs and fabricates some of the world's most complicated mechanical timepieces.The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | June 5, 2015
A group of researchers at the Chinese web services company Baidu have been barred from participating in an international competition for artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM News | June 4, 2015
If you thought it was only a matter of time before Google tried to turn your pants into a computer, well, guess what, you were right.The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 1, 2015
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 26, 2015
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...The New York Times From ACM News | May 12, 2015
In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2015
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...The New York Times From ACM News | May 4, 2015
The Pentagon’s new 33-page cybersecurity strategy is an important evolution in how America proposes to address a top national security threat. It is intended to...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2015
Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...The New York Times From ACM News | April 23, 2015
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...The New York Times From ACM News | April 21, 2015