Once U.S. companies dominated Business Week's Most Innovative Companies ranking, outnumbering corporations outside of America. But for the first time ever, more...Business Week From ACM Opinion | April 19, 2010
Robots can do all kinds of tasks, from folding clothes to fighting wars. But a professor says we should consider the ethics of unleashing robots.CNN From ACM Opinion | April 19, 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo...Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2010
A humanoid robot will visit space for the first time in September aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA announced Wednesday. The Robonaut 2, which was co-developed...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 15, 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
Former IBM researcher and visiting lecturer at MIT Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes that supercomputing and the IT industry must undergo a major technology and architectural...International Science Grid This Week From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2010
Amit Agarwal, based in India, has been blogging about technology for six years. He answers a few questions on his blogging career, the future of the Internet in...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2010
The reality--and my fears--dawned only slowly.
For weeks, friends and colleagues complained I had not answered their e-mail messages. I swore I had not received...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2010
The incredible ambition of the Large Hadron Collider has fired our imagination; physicists have become cult TV stars; dramatic new pictures from space grace a million...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2010
For about a decade now, ever since it became clear that the jungle of the World Wide Web would triumph over the walled gardens of CompuServe, AOL and MSN, a general...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2010
"How did you fool so many people for so long?" a reporter asked Tiger Woods at his press conference Monday. Woods replied: "I fooled myself."
And how. Woods was...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 8, 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
But once you try one, you won't be able to resist.
I picked up my iPad at a San Francisco Apple Store early on Saturday morning, and I spent the rest of the weekend...Slate From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2010
The promotion of the IT industry in North Korea can be done in a way that could minimize the extent of market opening.Korea IT Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2010
Professional computing education for undergraduate majors and fundamental computer education for non-majors has evolved in China over the past decade as the nation...Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2010
Should we be surprised that the biggest fight over freedom of expression in years involves Google, a company that produces algorithms rather than articles?
Probably...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 29, 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
Incorporating the consideration of privacy into the ongoing debate concerning network neutrality.Paul Ohm 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