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As a new moon orbiter gets set to launch, Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, says forget the 20th—this is the real space century.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2013
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media.Slate From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2013
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...The New York Times From ACM News | September 3, 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
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 30, 2013
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | August 29, 2013
Computer scientists at MIT and the National University of Ireland at Maynooth have developed a mapping algorithm that creates dense, highly detailed 3-D maps of...MIT News From ACM Careers | August 29, 2013
Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories have developed a 3-D model of the Earth's mantle and crust called SALSA3D, which is to assist the U.S. Air Force and...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | August 29, 2013
Outsiders often think of Silicon Valley as a constantly changing landscape, a place where fortunes rise and fall with the next great idea.The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 29, 2013
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 29, 2013
As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.The Washington Post From ACM Careers | August 29, 2013
The design of software underpins almost every facet of the way we live now, from the interactive bus timetable on your smartphone to the Excel spreadsheet you use...Slate From ACM Careers | August 28, 2013
Venus is like a reclusive celebrity that gets the public's attention every couple of years, though in the planet's case it's more like every century.ABC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.BBC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...The New York Times From ACM News | August 23, 2013
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.The New York Times From ACM News | August 23, 2013
In the gleaming Silicon Valley branch office of speech-recognition firm Nuance Communications, a small room has been made to look like a homey den.Forbes From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2013