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In policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed "wicked."The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 10, 2012
Just 15 years ago, New York City had 35,000 phone booths. Thanks to cell phones it now has just 11,000, most of which serve little purpose for anyone but Clark...Slate From ACM Careers | December 6, 2012
China's Lenovo is on a roll. It has just been named the world's number one PC seller, and it has rapidly won the number two spot in mobile phones in its home market...BBC News From ACM Careers | December 6, 2012
Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2012
A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm...Associated Press From ACM Careers | December 5, 2012
You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 4, 2012
There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 3, 2012
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2012
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.Wired From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
Apple Inc.'s Eddy Cue, who took charge of map software last month, is racing to turn around the troubled service, firing a senior manager, and urging partners to...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 27, 2012
In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.Wired From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists thought it was too good to be true. But within a few years...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
According to law enforcement agencies, the rising popularity of Internet chat services like Skype has made it difficult to eavesdrop on suspects' communications...Slate From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500...TOP500.org From ACM Careers | November 12, 2012
The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks...Wired From ACM Careers | November 9, 2012
When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012