After being on the receiving end of a truly awful hacking attack, Wired writer Mat Honan explained how it happened in detail. And he was very clear about two of...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2012
Mat Honan, the technology reporter who was digitally disemboweled this past weekend, has revealed exactly how he was so spectacularly owned. His case, a cascade...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2012
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky believes rethinking the basic rules of computer science can dramatically improve computer security, and argues that "there's not...BYTE From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2012
On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding...ArsTechnica From ACM News | August 3, 2012
Sharing recent experiences with the massive open artificial intelligence course developed and conducted by Stanford faculty Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.
Fred G. Martin From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2012
What's the real lesson to be learned from Amazon's cloud computing failure two weeks ago, the one that knocked Netflix and other Websites offline?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 13, 2012
Hadoop is everywhere. For better or worse, it has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 12, 2012
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...Astrobiology Magazine From ACM Opinion | July 12, 2012
About nine years ago, I had a question for Min Kao, the CEO of the GPS concern Garmin. His answer was determined, and I thought of it as I watched the news from...AllThingsD From ACM Opinion | June 22, 2012
All computer scientists know about the Universal Turing Machine, one of the foundation stones of theoretical computer science. Much less well known is the practical...Martin Campbell-Kelly From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2012
A store of information dubbed the "Knowledge Graph" now adds useful context and detail to the list of links that Google serves up.Technology Review From ACM News | June 15, 2012
That little iPhone in your pocket is perfectly positioned to become a clone of the credit cards in your wallet or purse.The New York Times From ACM News | June 12, 2012
In the days of the Internet bubble of the mid to late 1990s, companies received millions of dollars of venture capital to offer products that weren't especially...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2012
To justify its sky-high valuation, Facebook will have to increase its profit per user at rates that seem unlikely, even by the most generous predictions.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2012