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In a sliver of land in New York City's East River, where a lunatic asylum and smallpox hospital once stood, banners proclaim with unabashed assurance (or chutzpah)...The Daily Beast From ACM Careers | July 31, 2012
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | July 27, 2012
For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2012
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | July 20, 2012
One evening in the spring of 1999, Marissa Mayer got a recruiting email from a tiny search company. "I was in a long-distance relationship at the time, so I was...Slate From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2012
Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons.Fortune From ACM News | July 18, 2012
The tech sector is set to grow faster than all but five industries by 2020. Out of those fields, half of which are related to healthcare, tech pays the best with...Time From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2012
For more than a decade the CIA has run its own venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel. It was founded in the late 1990s when the CIA was drowning in data and didn't...NPR From ACM Careers | July 17, 2012
Coursera, an online higher education company founded last year by Stanford University computer scientists, announced an expansion that will offer more than 100...The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 17, 2012
The recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09 has been so anemic that the average American would probably be surprised to hear that the recession has officially...Slate From ACM Careers | July 16, 2012
A semiautonomous safety system developed at MIT monitors a driver's performance and takes control only when the driver's actions are unsafe. MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 13, 2012
Bernard Farrell obsesses over every bite he eats, every minute of exercise he gets, and everything that stresses him out. And, more than anything else, Farrell...NPR From ACM News | July 11, 2012
Google and the Smithsonian have collaborated to map the indoor public spaces of the Smithsonian's 17 museums and the National Zoo. Visitors with Google Maps for...Smithsonian Institution From ACM Careers | July 11, 2012
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.The New York Times From ACM News | July 10, 2012
When Google co-founder Sergey Brin demoed Google Glass, the search giant's attempt to build a next-generation wearable computer, with skydivers live streaming their...CNET From ACM Opinion | July 9, 2012
The University of Virginia may have settled its most urgent controversy by reinstating President Teresa Sullivan after initially forcing her out. But still unresolved...NPR From ACM Careers | July 9, 2012
In Automate This, a book due out next month, author and entrepreneur Christopher Steiner tells the story of stockbroker Thomas Peterffy, the creator of the first...Technology Review From ACM Careers | July 9, 2012
At 11 a.m. on my first day at Facebook, the young, plain-looking guys in T-shirts, gazing at their screens, seemed startled—if not displeased—to see a strange new...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 6, 2012
NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 5, 2012