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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter
From ACM Opinion

What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter

In the summer of 2011, while he was fighting an indictment for alleged computer crimes, Aaron Swartz, an information activist, read Kafka’s "The Trial" and ...

Laptop ­
From ACM News

Laptop ­

Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...

The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink
From ACM News

The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink

The Web browser you're probably using to read this article is a small marvel of engineering.

Shigeru Miyamoto: Master of Play
From ACM Opinion

Shigeru Miyamoto: Master of Play

The many worlds of a video-game artist.

The Face of Facebook
From ACM News

The Face of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of...
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