On April 1, 1960, the newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration heaved a 270-pound box of electronics into Earth orbit.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2016
The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 5, 2016
A randomized controlled trial validates many of the practices used to retain women in academia.
Yan Chen From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2016
I've long suspected that Mark Zuckerberg, who often refers to himself as the "leader" of Facebook, has dreams of high office.
BBC News From ACM Opinion | November 21, 2016
It was a rough night for number crunchers. And for the faith that people in every field—business, politics, sports and academia—have increasingly placed in the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2016
We will awaken Sunday to yet another disturbance in the chronosphere—our twice-yearly jolt from resetting the clocks, mechanical and biological.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2016
I have a vivid, recurring dream. I climb the stairs in my parents' house to see my old bedroom. In the back corner, I hear a faint humming.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2016
HAL 9000, the sentient computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, offers an ominous glimpse of a future in which machines endowed with artificial intelligence reject human...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2016
There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But statistics mean different things to different people. Take Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, for instance.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 1, 2016
Not a day goes by when we do not hear about the threat of AI taking over the jobs of everyone from truck drivers to accountants to radiologists.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2016
Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2016
The recent cyberattack that rendered more than 1,200 websites unreachable was a warning. Experts say a similar, or larger, attack could be launched tomorrow, and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2016