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China Restricts Video Gaming by Minors
From ACM TechNews

China Restricts Video Gaming by Minors

Chinese officials have unveiled guidelines for limiting online videogame use by persons under 18, claiming it hurts health and learning.

China Expands Research Funding, Luring ­.S. Scientists And Students
From ACM Careers

China Expands Research Funding, Luring ­.S. Scientists And Students

In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the...

How a Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs to a Middle-School Classroom
From ACM News

How a Gene Editing Tool Went From Labs to a Middle-School Classroom

On a Saturday afternoon, 10 students gather at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, to learn how to edit genes.

The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed
From ACM News

The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed

Today in the skies over New Mexico, Air Force students are practicing for the kill.

Rules For Cyberwarfare Still ­nclear, Even as ­.s. Engages In It
From ACM News

Rules For Cyberwarfare Still ­nclear, Even as ­.s. Engages In It

When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter landed in Iraq for a surprise visit this week, he came armed with this news: More than 200 additional U.S. troops are headed...

Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away
From ACM Careers

Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away

As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today.

Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
From ACM Careers

Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies

Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.

Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
From ACM Opinion

Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs

From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...

The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put a Man on the Moon
From ACM Careers

The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put a Man on the Moon


How One College Is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap
From ACM Careers

How One College Is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap

There are still relatively few women in tech. Maria Klawe wants to change that. As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering school in Southern...

Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
From ACM Careers

Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free

Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
From ACM Careers

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...

In-Q-Tel: The Cia's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley
From ACM Careers

In-Q-Tel: The Cia's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley

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...

From Chalk To Bytes: The Digital Classroom
From ACM News

From Chalk To Bytes: The Digital Classroom

Colleges and universities are experimenting with different ways to connect students and teachers. More than 200 institutions are using open-source software created...
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