At a dinner I attended some years ago, the distinguished differential geometer Eugenio Calabi volunteered to me his tongue-in-cheek distinction between pure and...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | December 7, 2015
When Chinese scientists announced in April they had edited human embryos using a new genetic tool called Crispr, the headlines blared "designer babies," and the...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 1, 2015
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2015
Until we moderate our fascination with creating ideas, we will not achieve the rate of innovations we seek.
Peter J. Denning, Nicholas Dew From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2015
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill which...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2015
Google's move to give away its latest machine-learning software, key to its speech- and photo-recognition programs, isn’t as crazy as it may appear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2015
No area of physics causes more confusion, not just among the general public but also among physicists, than quantum mechanics.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2015
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
Pedro Domingos's new book is a compelling but rather unquestioning insider view of the search for the ultimate in machine learning.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2015
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
The October 15 release of the so-called Drone Papers, leaked reports that appear to document the U.S. use of drone aircraft for military purposes, has given the...Time From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2015
The two mobile robots Spirit and Opportunity were launched from Earth in 2003 and arrived on opposite sides of Mars in 2004. A suite of cameras, instruments, and...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2015
Introducing students to visual programming as a pathway to text-based programming.Pratim Sengupta, Amanda Dickes, Amy Voss Farris, Ashlyn Karan, David Martin, Mason Wright From Communications of the ACM | October 23, 2015