The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.Samir Chopra From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2010
HTML5, the next version of the markup language used to build Web pages, has attracted attention for its ability to show video inside a Web browser without using...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 22, 2010
Much of modern-day programming is based on the Smalltalk-80 programming language, which was co-developed by Alan Kay, widely considered the father of the concept...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2010
Choosing between outsourcing and shared services has significant implications for long-term corporate strategy.Mari Sako From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2010
The field of computer science builds on Western industry, military and government interests. Modern day computing has almost wholly emerged out of a western context...ICT4Entrepreneurship From ACM Opinion | June 14, 2010
Dear KV, I've been working with some code that generates massive data sets, and . . . I'm finding that more and more often I...George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2010
Developing effective privacy protection technologies is a critical challenge for security and privacy research as the amount and variety of data collected about...Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2010
The headaches of Web application development are being compounded by the ever-proliferating morass of Web standards, frameworks, and tools.InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2010
Apple could soon be the target of an antitrust investigation by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Justice, according to numerous press reports...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2010
The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy...Robert Fortner's Posterous From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2010
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting...Apple From ACM Opinion | April 29, 2010
Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Paul Hofmann, John Jordan From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2010
For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when—at the age of 17—he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout...CNet From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2010
HTML5 promises to revolutionize the way you build Web sites. Check out what fantastic new features are in store in the forthcoming Web standard.Web Developer's Virtual Library From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2010
Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
To become an industry platform, vendors must open their infrastructure technology to other product companies.
Michael Cusumano From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2010
Few geeks are unfamiliar with the concept of the "Mythical Man-Month" from Fred Brooks' classic software engineering tome by the same name. It's a classic for good...LinuxInsider From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2010