The science world was rocked Wednesday by the discovery that the 80 percent of the human genethat scientists throught was "junk" actually contains genetic regulators...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | September 6, 2012
It has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Every morning I wake up too early, reach for my iPad, and scan the morning's tech headlines. This is a pathetic enough existence, but the Web sites I frequent aren't...Slate From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2012
It's been 20 years since I got my first-ever email address. Back then, I read email with a 2,400 bps modem. Today, emails reach me instantaneously on my phone whereever...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 20, 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
Recently, while sitting as a trial judge, I dismissed a case in which Apple and Motorola had sued each other for alleged infringement of patents for components...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | July 16, 2012
Mountain Lion, the next big software cat for your Mac, has a gazillion new features. Too many to name, and frankly, to care about. But there's one you should pay...Gizmodo From ACM Opinion | July 13, 2012
As cloud computing becomes increasingly common, serious operational "meltdowns" could take place as end users and vendors mix, match, and bundle services for various...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2012
Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling and indexing trillions of documents on the Internet, search engines...Arstechnica From ACM Opinion | June 8, 2012
Until recently, the idea of holding a conversation with a computer seemed pure science fiction. If you asked a computer to "open the pod bay doors"—well, that was...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2012
Broadening participation by integrating game design into middle school curricula. View a video featuring author Alexander Repenning about using games to introduce...Alexander Repenning From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2012
I can imagine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in Seattle Wednesday morning, reading the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit on a gigantic Kindle Fire XL prototype, and...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2012
Open problems will be presented in a joint session in the evening of the COLT/ICML overlap day. If you have a difficult, theoretically definable problem in machine...John Langford From BLOG@CACM | March 6, 2012