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The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 10, 2013
In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 10, 2013
There's a widely shared image on the Internet of a teacher's note that says: "Dear students, I know when you're texting in class. Seriously, no one just looks down...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | September 10, 2013
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2013
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 9, 2013
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.Fortune From ACM Careers | September 9, 2013
Columbia University Computer Science Professor Shree Nayar has launched Bigshot, a kit that features a build-it-yourself digital camera designed to serve as both...Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science From ACM Careers | September 5, 2013
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.Nature From ACM News | September 4, 2013
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
You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | September 3, 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
Using X-rays, a group of researchers has studied the nanoscale workings of a lithium-ion battery, learning new information about the chemical reactions and structural...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 30, 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